Posted on 08/18/2019 6:14:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump on Sunday said that buying Greenland isnt No. 1 on the burner but quipped that Denmark may want the US to take the worlds biggest island off its hands to save money.
Well Greenland, I dont know, it got released somehow, its just something we talked about, Trump told reporters as he left his Bedminster resort to return to Washington, referencing a Friday Wall Street Journal article about the presidents flirtation with buying Greenland.
Denmark, essentially, owns it. Were very good allies with Denmark, we protect Denmark like we protect large portions of the world. And so the concept came up and I said certainly, strategically its interesting. And wed be interested.
Trump then suggested that Greenland was hurting Denmark very badly throwing out the figure that it cost the Danish government $700 million.
So they carry it at a great loss. And strategically for the United States it would be nice, Trump added.
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Offer $100b for the whole territory, to be paid in $10b annual increments. A pullout from Afghanistan should cover the cost and then some.
nice (grin) :-)
If we get a chance to get Greenland we should absolutely take it. Heck even 700 million is only 10x a posh epstein townhouse in NY. A steal!
I hate to be the wet blanket here but I have a few questions about this Greenland deal:
1. How much would it cost?
2. Where does President Trump plan to get the money? Our deficit is already approaching our GDP in size.
3. Do the benefits of acquiring Greenland really outweigh the benefits of using the same amount of money to reduce our huge federal deficit?
Theres a long history of that. The Yucatán applied twice for statehood, but the northern states blocked it. Some general in Baja floated the same idea during the Mexican revolution, and even Sicily had advocates urging that it join the U.S. after WWII.
Crashed alien spacecraft.
We've seen this movie...
Puerto Ricans are actually happy with America. They sided against the Spaniards when the Spaniards killed rebels and civilians alike. That being said, the Spaniards are better at getting rid of communists than we are.
When did we have the Philippines? I had a poor education.
Trump’s folly. Oh wait a minute ...
1898 to 1946 with the exception of World War II.
Donalds been in talk with architects as to how tall a Trump Igloo is possible.
+. lols.....
I dont know anything about this. But I am guessing that Denmark wanted to say that they don’t have to pay for NATO because they support Greenland. To which Trump responded, OK we will buy it from you and you can start paying NATO what you owe.
That’s The Donald!
Sounds like a good place for a high security prison
Well, if Denmark pays us $700 mil, I guess we could be polite and take it.
Besides, with over 100,000 sealed indictments, GITMO is going to get too crowded, if we are charitable and don’t start executing capital punishment. We could begin building the energy efficient prison colony without too much heat in Greenland for all those we anticipate being incarcerated for the next 70 years.
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