Danes furious over postponement of Trump's visit, call his behavior 'insulting'

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

BERLIN — Danish lawmakers on Wednesday reacted in fury to President’s Trump’s postponement of his two-day visit in early September to Denmark after its prime minister said she was not interested in selling him the autonomous island of Greenland.

Parliamentarians and former government ministers slammed the president’s behavior as juvenile, undiplomatic and insulting, though the government itself has yet to comment on the visit’s cancellation and instead scheduled a news conference for the afternoon.

“It’s an insult from a close friend and ally,” Michael Aastrup Jensen, a member of the Danish parliament with the influential center-right Venstre party, told The Washington Post. He said Trump’s interest in purchasing Greenland took the country by surprise and was initially widely considered to be a joke, before Danes realized the full extent of “this disaster.”

Jensen said Danish lawmakers felt misled and “appalled” by the president, who “lacks even basic diplomatic skills,” he said. “There was no word [ahead of time] about: ‘I want to buy Greenland and that’s why I’m coming.’”

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[tanyev]

1. If I were them, I would focus on how much more insulting he would have been if he had come.

It's a tiny little cloud with a giant silver lining.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. The Danes don't get Trump.

Like a professional wrestler, he actually enjoys having insults hurled at him. Gives him an excuse to smirk and "punch back ten times as hard."

[packman]

3. When the Danes get pissed, you know it's serious

[PRETZEL]

4. Does this idiot understand

that this is a state visit, extended by the Danish Queen, not some 2 day road trip.

[Hekate]

15. No, he does not

[Bayard]

5. Winning friends, influencing enemies

Again.

Does this asshole not understand that Denmark can NOT sell Greenland, for godsakes?! Why would he want it anyway (other than to make a buck off hotels/golf courses), and who does he think would pay for that?

He is the laughingstock of the world. So embarrassing.

[colorado_ufo]

11. Putin wants it.

Think of its location! It's Cuban missile bases 2.0, the difference being that this administration - president and senate - are in Russia's pocket.

The Danes would not remotely sell Greenland to Russia, but there is the slimmest of chances, under the right conditions, that they would consider selling to the US.

[treestar]

6. Furious Danes is the type of thing

totally unnecessary and only Hairplug Himmler would bring it about.

[pamdb]

7. Denmark

Consider yourself lucky. We can’t wait to get rid of him in 2020.

[sdfernando]

8. The entire rest of the world should just shun "it"

(I'm going to refer to "it" as "it" from now on I think). When "it" goes somewhere "it" has to, like the G7, everyone needs to ignore "it". No one should talk to "it" or anyone that works for "it", especially "daughter-it" and "son-in-law-it".

I'd like to see "it" isolated and sitting alone with no one to talk to...like this:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/8/1678950/-Trump-Sitting-Alone-At-G20-Meeting-The-Perfect-Metaphor

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[RobinA]

10. The Sad Thing Is

that this picture is exactly what he has been trying to avoid his whole life and what he fights against so furiously.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

12. Trump was of the belief the presidency would grant him the great respect

he thinks in his fantasies he so richly deserves. Fake hand shakes, fake smiles and greetings, and yes fake respect. People saying something but thinking something else entirely different. All of the people well seasoned in the diplomatic process and protocols, except for Trump who stands or sits alone speaking words that are nothing more than the passing of a fools note. What bothers Trump the most I think ,is out on the world stage, all the other people are seasoned actors that not only know their lines but ad-lib on the spot. Trump would much rather at this stage in his shit show, do his stand up act from this side of the pond where he feels safe away from serious ridicule from afar or foreign states !

[Behind the Aegis]

13. It was a nasty response from the so-called leader of the Free World.

But frankly, they should be relieved. I am sure they, as a people, remember the last time a know-nothing, self-aggrandizing narcissistic bigoted asshole came to Denmark. I can't wait to visit.

[Hekate]

14. The Danes don't know how lucky they are to have missed a visit from the mad king. nt