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Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland
WSJ ^ | Aug. 15, 2019 | Vivian Salama, Rebecca Ballhaus and Andrew Restuccia

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: china; denmark; europe; europeanunion; globalwarminghoax; greenland; greennewdeal; nato; russia; trump
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

141 posted on 08/15/2019 5:36:25 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Sacajaweau
This’ll drive the media out of their minds

Still, it is a good idea in concept.

142 posted on 08/15/2019 5:36:54 PM PDT by Rapscallion (If they are not for Trump, they are against him. Fire them.)
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To: dfwgator
Make Greenland Great Green Again
143 posted on 08/15/2019 5:38:54 PM PDT by AZLiberty (218 House seats or bust! Bust. But the Dems will be busted for election fraud.)
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To: outofsalt

It is tough to watch.


144 posted on 08/15/2019 5:44:07 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

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.


145 posted on 08/15/2019 5:53:08 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: dfwgator
As long as 1872 mining law prevails...🤠
146 posted on 08/15/2019 5:56:02 PM PDT by Axenolith (WWG1WGA!)
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To: AndyJackson

We got the US Virgin Islands from Denmark about a century ago. Epstein bought one of those islands but it was still US sovereignty.


147 posted on 08/15/2019 6:08:48 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
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To: dfwgator

148 posted on 08/15/2019 6:14:02 PM PDT by Bobalu (The Nobel Peace Prize doesn't deserve Trump.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Very strategic on many fronts. Do it!


149 posted on 08/15/2019 6:26:57 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Bobalu

I LIKE IT. = APPLAUSE

I wonder how the skiing is there.

Yours, TMN78247


150 posted on 08/15/2019 6:27:44 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: 100American

Manifest Destiny - North to the Pole....this time by way of Thule!


151 posted on 08/15/2019 7:05:46 PM PDT by Reily
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
On the old Mercator Map Projection Greenland is YUUUUUUGE!!!!!


152 posted on 08/15/2019 7:19:26 PM PDT by xp38
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To: MrChips
But will it be a blue state or a red state?

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.

153 posted on 08/15/2019 7:23:51 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Red Badger
I have heard that Greenland has minerals like crazy under the ice cap..................,p> Ding, Ding, Ding - we have a winner!
154 posted on 08/15/2019 8:14:50 PM PDT by Go Gordon (I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
There's a bit in the Ben Stiller version of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" where he's in Greenland and one of the residents tells him, "There's only like 11 people in the whole country."

The joke is if you watch and count carefully, Stiller runs into exactly 11 people in Greenland while he's there.

155 posted on 08/15/2019 8:26:58 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: KC Burke

Now that’s funny. Not a bad idea... LOL


156 posted on 08/15/2019 8:32:43 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.igh)
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To: xp38

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.


157 posted on 08/15/2019 9:26:01 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: SVTCobra03

158 posted on 08/15/2019 10:06:15 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

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...


159 posted on 08/15/2019 10:50:55 PM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
We should colonize it ourselves and call it Freepland.

I prefer MAGAtopia.

LOL! :-D

160 posted on 08/15/2019 11:30:38 PM PDT by nutmeg (democRATs: The party of Infanticide, Open Borders, Crime, High Taxes and "Free" Sh*t)
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