Trump: ‘$700M’ cost of Greenland is ‘hurting Denmark very badly’

The New York Post ^ | August 18, 2019 | Nikki Schwab

[Zhang Fei]

Offer $100b for the whole territory, to be paid in $10b annual increments. A pullout from Afghanistan should cover the cost and then some.

[Bobalu]

nice (grin) :-)

[walkingdead]

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!

[FormerFRLurker]

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?

[PUGACHEV]

There’s 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.

[null and void]

They probably have oil, gold, rare earth minerals and God knows what else under that snow and ice.

Crashed alien spacecraft.

We've seen this movie...

[JudgemAll]

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.

[wastedyears]

When did we have the Philippines? I had a poor education.

[plain talk]

Trump’s folly. Oh wait a minute ...

[2ndDivisionVet]

1898 to 1946 with the exception of World War II.

[Cobra64]

It would also be cheaper to colonize Greenland than the Moon. 😁

[Cobra64]

Donald’s been in talk with architects as to how tall a Trump Igloo is possible.

[mad_as_he$$]

+. lols.....

[Viking2002]

Now, hold on, I see a potential upside here. Imagine if ICE could take the lead on this: "If you are an illegal, or thinking of coming to the United States without proper authorization, you will be caught. Once you are processed, you will not be released to the authorities of your home county; you will be classified as undesirables and relocated to Greenland.". The thought of poor Manuel flensing blubber from a whale carcass while is whiskers ice up just warms the cockles of me widdle heart. LOL!

[poinq]

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.

[TBP]

That’s The Donald!

[Keyhopper]

Sounds like a good place for a high security prison

[Cvengr]

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.