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Holy crap! This is a REAL tweet from trump about Denmark: (Original Post) George II Aug 2019 OP
ooooh, for fucks sake. I don't even know anymore.............. Afromania Aug 2019 #1
Good, I'm sure the PM doesn't want to get downbloused or upskirted! TheBlackAdder Aug 2019 #33
Well when you're the King of Israel MontanaMama Aug 2019 #106
He really is the only one who believes this could happen. What a doofus. marble falls Aug 2019 #2
what fucking moron. We must be a laughing stock on the world stage. TeamPooka Aug 2019 #3
Not quite. HE is a laughingstock and an object of scorn... The_jackalope Aug 2019 #4
Being British, I know exactly how you are feeling. Myrddin Aug 2019 #64
i haven't laughed so hard in a long time certainot Aug 2019 #99
do you hear that sound? that sort of whishing sound? mopinko Aug 2019 #5
Not only did I hear it mercuryblues Aug 2019 #8
Pretty soon, he will Scarsdale Aug 2019 #72
I was just happy that there isn't a cancerous windmill nearby mercuryblues Aug 2019 #80
Stop the planet I want off vercetti2021 Aug 2019 #6
How about we just drop him off? ooky Aug 2019 #9
Yeah.. kick him the hell OFF. Cha Aug 2019 #67
Me too, dixiegrrrrl Aug 2019 #19
He is a nasty baby-manchild. nt Blue_true Aug 2019 #49
Not Putin, Not Kim hot2na Aug 2019 #59
Not just no, but in response to a ridiculous notion that should never have been brought up. nt tblue37 Aug 2019 #91
Not to mention a WOMAN saying no to him NastyRiffraff Aug 2019 #93
One reason I support Warren is because I want a woman to beat him dixiegrrrrl Aug 2019 #94
Even better if the woman is black!!!! Doitnow Aug 2019 #95
With a gay man as VP! dixiegrrrrl Aug 2019 #97
If the planet stops you won't have to worry about getting off. Blue_true Aug 2019 #47
When the world stage is out of fucks to give about this Consumate-Con-in-Chief! n/t MFGsunny Aug 2019 #7
Is he confusing Greenland... sheshe2 Aug 2019 #10
Bazinga! George II Aug 2019 #12
... sheshe2 Aug 2019 #17
Here's trDumpie,... magicarpet Aug 2019 #35
Just about the time Timewas Aug 2019 #11
How low can you go? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2019 #78
There's no bottom for his One Hundred Million US followers, either. FiveGoodMen Aug 2019 #88
So, mental institutions making a comeback could be a good thing. nature-lover Aug 2019 #13
World leaders probably have a contest going to see who can best play the moron yaesu Aug 2019 #14
Ohhhhhh, I can see the "conference" now! MyOwnPeace Aug 2019 #21
it's distraction from his failures JI7 Aug 2019 #15
Thanks for the update Dork! Nt BootinUp Aug 2019 #16
NATO Johnny2X2X Aug 2019 #18
Now other leaders will be jealous of Denmark. BigmanPigman Aug 2019 #20
Norway could offer to not sell Svalbard, another large island in the Arctic. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2019 #101
Wouldn't that be funny if "NOT For Sale" signs BigmanPigman Aug 2019 #102
Look Over There At Greenland Me. Aug 2019 #22
The fool was actually serious about buying Greenland. brush Aug 2019 #23
Could he sink the international meaning zentrum Aug 2019 #24
I'm almost too ashamed to make my annual visit up to Toronto in September! George II Aug 2019 #25
You'll enjoy it, George! luvtheGWN Aug 2019 #58
I spent the summer in East Africa cab67 Aug 2019 #32
Too Bad We Can't Put HIM On The Moon And Leave Him There! nt smb Aug 2019 #81
When I traveled last year... zentrum Aug 2019 #100
We turned the momentum into voting, which had greater impact. Blue_true Aug 2019 #50
This is not Borowitz? Really? 3catwoman3 Aug 2019 #26
If we buy Greenland, would Mexico pay for it? tclambert Aug 2019 #27
we owe it to the world to imprison TrumPutin Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2019 #28
"We need to move forward" my ass durablend Aug 2019 #36
Can anyone read/translate Danish? smirkymonkey Aug 2019 #29
Google Translate seems to give comprehensible results from here muriel_volestrangler Aug 2019 #68
Like she gives a rats ass. onecaliberal Aug 2019 #30
It has finally happened in spite of evidence this could happen. gordianot Aug 2019 #31
he needs to be in a rubber room spanone Aug 2019 #34
"I was abducted by aliens and met Elvis, who was abducted in 1977. He warned me struggle4progress Aug 2019 #37
I mean what can you say at this point? Politicub Aug 2019 #38
He is delusional and mentally unstable, and he can start WW3 at any time. Doodley Aug 2019 #39
Our reality is worse than The Onion dalton99a Aug 2019 #40
BBC, too. I've been watching Handmaid's tale, and this is harder to believe. lindysalsagal Aug 2019 #66
REMOVE. HIM. FROM. OFFICE. NOW. Haggis for Breakfast Aug 2019 #41
The Prime Minister dodged a bullet. LudwigPastorius Aug 2019 #42
The guy is insane. PatrickforO Aug 2019 #43
What a thin skinned idiot. nt Blue_true Aug 2019 #44
If he ever goes to Denmark with any luck he'll get cancer from all the windmills BSdetect Aug 2019 #45
I can't resist... PatrickforO Aug 2019 #46
"They're coming to take me away...ha ha...ho ho...he he" PandoraAwakened Aug 2019 #65
Maybe he thinks he'll be sending in tanks. n/t Grokenstein Aug 2019 #48
He's not upset about those comments. JohnnyRingo Aug 2019 #51
Well, Denmark is clearly the most serious threat to our nation. PatrickforO Aug 2019 #86
From Steve Sack dflprincess Aug 2019 #52
I'm glad he included puffins. I love puffins. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2019 #104
Sam Stein, on Twitter: Miles Archer Aug 2019 #53
He actually thought he was going to a meeting to negotiate a sale....... Historic NY Aug 2019 #54
Yeah he did think that. SammyWinstonJack Aug 2019 #71
+1 uponit7771 Aug 2019 #79
wow Demovictory9 Aug 2019 #55
And here we thought the whole thing was a joke FakeNoose Aug 2019 #56
I hope the media will stop treating it as a joke AlexSFCA Aug 2019 #57
Believe it or not, that wasn't his dumbest tweet of the day. Eugene Aug 2019 #60
JFC. Maru Kitteh Aug 2019 #62
Next: watch the American president hold his breath and smear his mashed peas in his hair. nt procon Aug 2019 #61
LMAO! This is hilarious. No? Glimmer of Hope Aug 2019 #63
Might as well laugh. And be nice and share the joke! Hortensis Aug 2019 #75
Less than 3 hours before: "Denmark is ready for the POTUS visit! Partner, ally, friend" - US Amb muriel_volestrangler Aug 2019 #69
Ever get the feeling you're stuck in an alternate universe? spinbaby Aug 2019 #70
Yes. I've felt that way, actually, Silver Gaia Aug 2019 #74
May the Prime Minister tell him to shove his meeting up his ample ass. spanone Aug 2019 #73
He's creating fake news duforsure Aug 2019 #76
+1 Sneederbunk Aug 2019 #87
This has actually become a pretty serious situation, not just a distraction. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2019 #103
Someone needs to order the extra extra large straitjacket already. Lonestarblue Aug 2019 #77
Maybe He Could Buy Latveria or Pottsylvania or Elbonia or.... nt smb Aug 2019 #82
Read between the lines...he wants to carve up the artic oil deposits with Putin pecosbob Aug 2019 #83
It's never going to happen FakeNoose Aug 2019 #84
If he truly was serious it shows the type of mind we are dealing with now pecosbob Aug 2019 #85
What are we going to buy Greenland with? LuvNewcastle Aug 2019 #89
I know!! sellitman Aug 2019 #98
In Trumplandia, Greenland will buy itself for the U.S. with a loan from Mexico. VOX Aug 2019 #105
Oooooo, poor baby peggysue2 Aug 2019 #90
I don't think that he seriously wanted to meet with them. colorado_ufo Aug 2019 #92
I think she was telling him not to bother to come, so he quickly cancelled rather than face the Doitnow Aug 2019 #96

mopinko

(70,090 posts)
5. do you hear that sound? that sort of whishing sound?
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 08:26 PM
Aug 2019

that is all of denmark breathing a sigh of relief.

what a world.

mercuryblues

(14,531 posts)
8. Not only did I hear it
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 08:30 PM
Aug 2019

I felt a big gust of relief come through here. Knocked a few branches of my trees.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
72. Pretty soon, he will
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 07:56 AM
Aug 2019

be calling Denmark "a shithole country" What was he planning on using for cash? The tRump family is busy spending the treasury money on trips, golf outings, rallies, charities etc. Their family motto should be "Grifters "r Us"

hot2na

(357 posts)
59. Not Putin, Not Kim
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 11:01 PM
Aug 2019

Trump slobbers all over authoritarian dictators. He only disses leaders of democratic countries.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
93. Not to mention a WOMAN saying no to him
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 04:49 PM
Aug 2019

She's attractive, too. He's throwing a hissy fit because a real leader not only said "no" but called his suggestion "absurd." (Which it was.)

But it's not only a Twitter fit, it's an actual withdrawing from a planned visit.

America says "Help!"

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
94. One reason I support Warren is because I want a woman to beat him
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 05:59 PM
Aug 2019


The other reasons are because her many other fine qualities.

Oh, and that Golden Retriever she has gives her brownie points, too,

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
47. If the planet stops you won't have to worry about getting off.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 10:17 PM
Aug 2019

All of us would be dead, along with every other animal species on earth. A monumental amount of force is required to stop a massive object moving at close to 67,000 miles per hour and spinning at close to 1,000 miles per hour. Living things wouldn't survive the application of that force.

Timewas

(2,193 posts)
11. Just about the time
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 08:36 PM
Aug 2019

That I think he can't drop any lower he makes a liar out of me... apparent;y there is no real bottom for him in his delusions

MyOwnPeace

(16,926 posts)
21. Ohhhhhh, I can see the "conference" now!
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 08:59 PM
Aug 2019

GAWD, wouldn't you love to be a fly in the room to hear THAT discussion!

BigmanPigman

(51,588 posts)
20. Now other leaders will be jealous of Denmark.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 08:59 PM
Aug 2019

They may hope that he offers to purchase land not for sale from them in order to keep the fucking moron away from visiting them too.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,681 posts)
101. Norway could offer to not sell Svalbard, another large island in the Arctic.
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 09:43 PM
Aug 2019

It's not nearly as big as Greenland, but it does have a strategic location and some mineral resources. Norway could let Trump know that Svalbard isn't for sale; that way they could be sure Trump wouldn't want to visit them either.

BigmanPigman

(51,588 posts)
102. Wouldn't that be funny if "NOT For Sale" signs
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 09:50 PM
Aug 2019

started popping up on International Properties Listings(as if that were a real thing). I bet the Fucking Moron would actually believe it until the "acting official of land grabs" told him otherwise.

brush

(53,771 posts)
23. The fool was actually serious about buying Greenland.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 09:11 PM
Aug 2019

I can't, I just can't take much more of this clown.

How did we get here? I mean seriously?

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
24. Could he sink the international meaning
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 09:14 PM
Aug 2019

.....of America any lower?

What a buffoon country we've become.

Remember his first year when we were all in the streets? What happened to that momentum?

cab67

(2,992 posts)
32. I spent the summer in East Africa
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 09:38 PM
Aug 2019

Most people there had the courtesy not to even speak of him. But when it came up, I encountered bewilderment. You put people on the moon, and THIS is your president? They fully understood that anyone who would visit the region would not be a red hatter.

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
100. When I traveled last year...
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 09:26 PM
Aug 2019

.....I wore political pins on my backpack, lapel etc. Things like "Not My President". Also one of the Statue of Liberty crying.

People from other countries can spot an American from across the street, metro, cafe---so I wanted them to know even from afar.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
50. We turned the momentum into voting, which had greater impact.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 10:24 PM
Aug 2019

Some people love street protests, I prefer doing my protesting in a voting booth. Vote in 2020 like our lives depend on it, they very well may.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
29. Can anyone read/translate Danish?
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 09:24 PM
Aug 2019

What are their papers saying about this? It would be interesting to hear.

struggle4progress

(118,281 posts)
37. "I was abducted by aliens and met Elvis, who was abducted in 1977. He warned me
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 09:56 PM
Aug 2019

not to go to Denmark. So I asked Vlad. And Vlad said, Listen to Elvis! So I'm not going!"

lindysalsagal

(20,679 posts)
66. BBC, too. I've been watching Handmaid's tale, and this is harder to believe.
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 02:51 AM
Aug 2019

The gop is owning this FOREVER.

PandoraAwakened

(905 posts)
65. "They're coming to take me away...ha ha...ho ho...he he"
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 02:34 AM
Aug 2019

OMG, I haven't heard this in a long time. How appropo for the pResident-in-Grief!

JohnnyRingo

(18,628 posts)
51. He's not upset about those comments.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 10:29 PM
Aug 2019

it's all the ribbing they've been giving him for a week.

Trump's been publicly embarrassed again. Maybe he'll back off on Obama now and nuke Denmark.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
53. Sam Stein, on Twitter:
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 10:33 PM
Aug 2019
Sam Stein
@samstein

I can’t get over the fact that the president just cancelled a trip to a country because that country refused to sell him fucking Greenland. I mean, I’m cracking up just typing this. But it’s real!

9:47 PM · Aug 20, 2019·TweetDeck




Sam Stein
@samstein

This Greenland stuff is classic Art of the Deal material folks. Just watch and learn.

8:16 PM · Aug 20, 2019·Twitter Web App


AlexSFCA

(6,137 posts)
57. I hope the media will stop treating it as a joke
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 10:47 PM
Aug 2019

and start discussing this matter with the highest gop officials

Eugene

(61,874 posts)
60. Believe it or not, that wasn't his dumbest tweet of the day.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 11:04 PM
Aug 2019
Trump globally mocked for Greenland meme tweet over hotel bankruptcy

Mr Trump promised not to build a tower with his name on it in Greenland — the internet seems to think that's a good idea

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tweets-greenland-meme-tower-hotel-bankruptcy-a9071701.html






muriel_volestrangler

(101,311 posts)
69. Less than 3 hours before: "Denmark is ready for the POTUS visit! Partner, ally, friend" - US Amb
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 05:17 AM
Aug 2019

to Denmark:




Carla Sands is a chiropractor who went into acting, "best known for her work in Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell". She inherited $150 million from her real estate trader husband, then sucked up to Trump bigly from 2016 onwards, and was rewarded with the Danish ambassadorship in 2017. I hope she feels totally humiliated right now. She's stopped tweeting, anyway.

spinbaby

(15,089 posts)
70. Ever get the feeling you're stuck in an alternate universe?
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 05:31 AM
Aug 2019

I often wonder if, sometime in 2016, something happened, and now we’re stuck in some bizarre alternate timeline.

Silver Gaia

(4,544 posts)
74. Yes. I've felt that way, actually,
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 07:58 AM
Aug 2019

since Al Gore "lost" to George Bush in 2001. This is not the world I was supposed to be living in. Barack rescued us for a while, but this is even worse than the Bush/Gore debacle. Anyhow... I hear ya, and often feel the SAME.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
76. He's creating fake news
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 08:09 AM
Aug 2019

To get media's attention away from Epstein, Putin, and all his corruption, and the media is being played by trump and Putin now, and doing it for him.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,681 posts)
103. This has actually become a pretty serious situation, not just a distraction.
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 10:03 PM
Aug 2019

Trump has insulted and disrespected a long-time ally and charter member of NATO after having been invited to an official dinner by their head of state. It was pretty outrageous and is another indication of his complete contempt for other countries and their governments and it bears attention.

Lonestarblue

(9,981 posts)
77. Someone needs to order the extra extra large straitjacket already.
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 08:15 AM
Aug 2019

We’re long past the time when the 25th Amendment should have been invoked.

pecosbob

(7,538 posts)
83. Read between the lines...he wants to carve up the artic oil deposits with Putin
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 09:47 AM
Aug 2019

he's probably already gotten the go ahead from Putin.

pecosbob

(7,538 posts)
85. If he truly was serious it shows the type of mind we are dealing with now
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 10:19 AM
Aug 2019

an eighteenth century mindset that views occupant or inhabitants of property to be property.

LuvNewcastle

(16,844 posts)
89. What are we going to buy Greenland with?
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 12:23 PM
Aug 2019

We already owe trillions and we add to the debt every year while giving tax cuts to people who don't need them. We can't afford to spend hundreds of billions on more land when we can't take care of the needs of our people. Besides, even if we bought the damned island, the Republicans would just give it away to the oil companies.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
105. In Trumplandia, Greenland will buy itself for the U.S. with a loan from Mexico.
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 10:52 PM
Aug 2019

Because there’s no end to the awesomeness of MAGA and the bottomless stable-genius of the “chosen one.”

peggysue2

(10,828 posts)
90. Oooooo, poor baby
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 12:26 PM
Aug 2019

He had his fee-fees hurt. By a woman, no less. Time to pout and prove he is, indeed, the Petulant Mad King.

Doitnow

(1,103 posts)
96. I think she was telling him not to bother to come, so he quickly cancelled rather than face the
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 06:09 PM
Aug 2019

humiliation of her saying it in so many words.

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