'Final proof that he has gone mad': Denmark mocks Trump's reported desire to buy Greenland

[RKP5637]

Yep!!!

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/final-proof-that-he-has-gone-mad-denmark-mocks-trumps-reported-desire-to-buy-greenland

Amid reports that President Donald Trump has directed aides to examine whether the United States can purchase Greenland—an autonomous territory of Denmark—Danish lawmakers on Friday condemned the idea as both absurd and “grotesque.”

“If he is truly contemplating this, then this is final proof that he has gone mad,” Soren Espersen, foreign affairs spokesman for the Danish People’s Party, told local broadcaster DR. “The thought of Denmark selling 50,000 citizens to the United States is completely ridiculous.”

“We are talking about real people and you can’t just sell Greenland like an old colonial power. But what we can take seriously is that the U.S. stakes and interest in the Arctic is significantly on the rise.”
—Martin Lidegaard, Danish Social Liberal Party

[jberryhill]

1. "you can't just sell Greenland like an old colonial power"

That's actually kind of funny in an inadvertent way, coming from Denmark, given that Greenland is ostensibly autonomous.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. Well, Once Burned. Twice Shy

The last time the Danes sold us some of their territory was when they sold us the Virgin Islands—and I bet they’ve been regretting the sale for the last sixty years,