Posted on 08/15/2019 2:42:41 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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.
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Still, it is a good idea in concept.
It is tough to watch.
Brilliant. All 56000 would become owners of the land they are on. They’d have the ability to buy more land and US citizenship should they chooae it.
We got the US Virgin Islands from Denmark about a century ago. Epstein bought one of those islands but it was still US sovereignty.
Very strategic on many fronts. Do it!
I LIKE IT. = APPLAUSE
I wonder how the skiing is there.
Yours, TMN78247
Manifest Destiny - North to the Pole....this time by way of Thule!
Ah, recalls the fight over California's admission to the Union indirectly leading to Civil War. Politicians either wanted it free, slave, or divided in two. If they had divided it then, history would be far different. President Trump should buy Greenland, and offer it to the liberals as a blue state - only if they all move there.
The joke is if you watch and count carefully, Stiller runs into exactly 11 people in Greenland while he's there.
Now that’s funny. Not a bad idea... LOL
The Danish GDP is $325 billion and their gov revenue is $180 billion. There are only 3 million of them so a few more people than Chicago.
Everyone has a price.
Trump should say he is going to buy Greenland and make it into a “white ethno state.... I mean White Internment Center” that way all of the White Supremacists can get sent there without any coats and have to live in the cold.
That way all of the other 50 states can become multicultural diverse utopias while all the white supremacists starve and freeze in the cold.
I would love to see the left try to be against using greenland as a “prison state” for white people...
Of course in 30 years when it becomes a rich state with a very high standard of living, you will have “diverse” people in canada and iceland complaining that they can’t get into the paradise that greenland is now...
I prefer MAGAtopia.
LOL! :-D
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