Posted on 08/21/2019 11:05:01 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: 'You don't talk to the United States that way under me!' Donald Trump accuses Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of being 'nasty' for calling his plan to buy Greenland 'absurd' after he canceled state visit in fury at territory not being for sale
Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of being 'nasty' when she said his plan to buy Greenland was 'absurd.'
The president told reporters on the South lawn her statement on the matter 'was nasty' during a 35-minute, free wheeling exchange that included his thoughts on gun background checks, Israel, the New York Times, China and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
'I thought that the prime minister's statement that it was absurd - that it was an absurd idea - was nasty. I thought it was an inappropriate statement. All she had to do is say no, we wouldn't be interested,' he said.
'She shouldn't treat the United States that way. She said absurd. That's not the right word to use. Absurd,' he noted.
'I thought it was an inappropriate statement. All she had to do is say no, we wouldn't be interested,' he said of Frederiksen's reaction to his proposal to buy the world's largest island, which is a Danish territory.
'I thought it was a very not nice way of saying something. They could have told me no,' he said, adding: 'All they had to do is say, no, we would rather not do that or we would rather not talk about it. Don't say what an absurd idea that is.'
He accused her of insulting the United States with her response.
'She's not talking to me,' he said of Frederiksen. 'She's talking to the United States of America. You don't talk to the United States that way. At least underme
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I believe the President effectively drove the price down. If Denmark turned down what was probably a better offer, China can offer lower and know they have Denmark behind a barrel.
Me, too. I figure there’s some playing to the base going on with both sides to gin up support there, then they’ll strike a deal on bases/trade/whatever with all sides politically satisfied and the respective nay-sayers will look like boobs. Not that this type of thing has happened before, mind you. ;)
Don’t think so...Trump has something up his sleeve, as always.
No “fury.” Trump doesn’t do fury. Everything he does is calculated or comes from his instinct and intuition. He is setting something up with or around Denmark.In the meantime he is keeping the Left worked up and sputtering about patently silly things.
all your Greenland are belong to us...
Denmark subsidizes Greenland with approximately $500 million a year.
The population is 56,000 so that’s almost $10,000 per person per year.
I understand that Denmark can easily afford that subsidy. But still Greenland is a liability to them. It’s an ongoing liability with no end in sight.
Trump could probably turn it around and make it profitable.
From Wikipedia: "Denmark in World War 2"
At the outset of World War II, Denmark declared itself neutral. For most of the war, the country was a protectorate, then an occupied territory of Germany. The decision to occupy Denmark was taken in Berlin on 17 December 1939. On 9 April 1940, Germany occupied Denmark in Operation Weserübung and the king and government functioned as normal in a de facto protectorate over the country until 29 August 1943, when Germany placed Denmark under direct military occupation, which lasted until the Allied victory on 5 May 1945. Contrary to the situation in other countries under German occupation, most Danish institutions continued to function relatively normally until 1945. Both the Danish government and king remained in the country in an uneasy relationship between a democratic and a totalitarian system until the Danish government stepped down in a protest against the German demands to institute the death penalty for sabotage.Just over 3,000 Danes died as a direct result of the occupation. (A further 2,000 volunteers of Free Corps Denmark and Waffen SS, of which most originated from the German minority of southern Denmark, died fighting on the German side on the Eastern Front while 1,072 merchant sailors died in Allied service.) Overall this represents a very low mortality rate when compared to other occupied countries and most belligerent countries. (See: World War II casualties.)
An effective resistance movement developed by the end of the war, and most Danish Jews were rescued in 1943 when German authorities ordered their internment as part of the Holocaust.
“...cringe...”? Where are my pearls?
I love this President
Love my President. Watch, Greenland will be an American protectorate one day.
Hey climate-nuts, you’re all scared that Greenland’s ice is melting. Why was it named GREENland?
So Denmark didn't want to oppose the Nazis in WWII? Wanted to sit it out.
Denmark should have been required by the U.S. to forfeit their custodianship of Denmark at war’s end. Denmark was, and probably still is, unreliable.
Haha, cringe in a “roll my eyes” kinda way. I don’t have pearls to clutch but I do have balls to scratch.
If that’s Greenland and the other one is Iceland, I think it says bad things about Viking naming abilities. After all the rape, loot and pillage I guess naming places was not a big priority with them.
Either that, or it was a 10th century land fraud of some kind. Iceland is about 5% covered with ice, Greenland is about 90% covered with ice. Hmmm.
I heard on Greg Gutfeld’s show last weekend that this whole thing started when a Reporter brought it up.
One of his Guests mentioned that Trump didn’t even start this.
Anyone know how this even came about? Can’t find a thing on Google.
If the 90% referendum that Greenlanders want to join the US is true (per zerohedge), let’s get it to the referendum. China is on our heels...
It is astonishing that leaders of tiny, allegedly-allied nations think they can talk down to the US.
These aren’t the Obama years anymore, sweetie...
True. It was one of the pockets left over at the end but the end ended the occupation.
Aha! So maybe this is what POTUS had in find, pressuring the Danes over helping the Chinese put their military bases there.
Thanks for the clarification.
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