Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland

WSJ ^ | Aug. 15, 2019 | Vivian Salama, Rebecca Ballhaus and Andrew Restuccia

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WASHINGTON—President Trump made his name on the world’s most famous island. Now he wants to buy the world’s biggest.

The idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland has captured the former real-estate developer’s imagination, according to people familiar with the deliberations, who said Mr. Trump has, with varying degrees of seriousness, repeatedly expressed interest in buying the ice-covered autonomous Danish territory between the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

In meetings, at dinners and in passing conversations, Mr. Trump has asked advisers whether the U.S. can acquire Greenland, listened with interest when they discuss its abundant resources and geopolitical importance, and, according to two of the people, has asked his White House counsel to look into the idea.

Some of his advisers have supported the concept, saying it was a good economic play, two of the people said, while others dismissed it as a fleeting fascination that will never come to fruition. It is also unclear how the U.S. would go about acquiring Greenland even if the effort were serious.

With a population of about 56,000, Greenland is a self-ruling part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and while its government decides on most domestic matters, foreign and security policy is handled by Copenhagen. Mr. Trump is scheduled to make his first visit to Denmark early next month, although the visit is unrelated, these people said.

[SVTCobra03]

Your Trump Derangement Syndrome is showing.

[Reno89519]

Fantastic move, if it were even remotely possible today.

[cookcounty]

Dainamark doun wan no Ricos.

[RoosterRedux]

I like cold weather (particularly now that it's August in Georgia where I live). I would move to Greenland in a flash.

I'll just move my cat ranching operation up there. BTW, cat ranching is quite lucrative...for the cats.

[Sequoyah101]

Our very own Gulag Archipelago! A place to put all the enemies of white supremacists! Sounds like a great idea to me.

They can be put to work removing the ice cap and extracting valuable minerals. Sounds like a match made in heaven.

[AndyJackson]

Lousy investment. With global warming it’s all going to melt into the sea. What’s left will probably tip over.

[Sequoyah101]

Looks like neat well ordered place that our ingrate citizens can screw up in no time with Styrofoam cups and plastic sacks.

[DoodleDawg]

Lincoln bought us Alaska.

Andrew Johnson.

[RoosterRedux]

The sailing is great...

[outofsalt]

"Many of you most likely know this story already, but the P-38 Glacier Girl was one of six P-38s and two B-17s that had to make an emergency landing on an icecap in Greenland on July 15th, 1942 due to inclement weather. The crews were collected unharmed and the 8 planes were left there to be eventually covered by snow and ice."

full article with many pictures

[Ezekiel]

“Trump’s Folly”

I seward you did there.

[Political Junkie Too]

Maybe we can give it to the social democrats to turn into Utopialand.

-PJ

[C210N]

The article says that we also considered buying Iceland once.

These days, the value of Iceland is perhaps 4 orders of magnitude greater than Greenland. If ever there was good time in recent history to buy Iceland, it would have been in 2008 after their financial banking debacle where some turds destroyed their economy. But now, they've recovered. Geothermal RULES! They have a blooming energy business, and tons of related side businesses. Frinstance', they actually are exporters of Strawberries!

In contrast, there is not much development at all in Greenland. It's all just potential... huge, but only potential.

(thoroughly enjoyed a week in Iceland earlier this year; only flew over Greenland on the way)

[KittyKares]

How clever. Trump is always thinking.

[McGruff]

Greenland is Trending #1 on Twitter. Look what some smart @ss photoshopped.

ROFL

[Deplorable American1776]

Really? Trump wants to buy Greenland? LOL...where did WSJ get this info? Weekly World News.?

[dead]

The Trump Purchase. Oh my God, liberals would cry so much. We could pipe all the melting glacial waters directly to the Sahara, make it a fresh water inland sea, and stop the imaginary rising of the oceans.

Still they would cry.

[CincyRichieRich]

Proposal: Go kick Iran’s butt, make them cough up all bank accounts holding our $150B “Obama stash”, and buy Greenland with it. Oh, free their students like we should ha e by now.

[waterhill]

They also have caribou and muskox, yummy! I can vouch for the caribou anyway, never ate muskox.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

This’ll drive the media out of their minds.

My first thought is "Oh boy, this is going to be FUN to watch!" Leftists will be going insane over this one.