Posted on 08/16/2019 10:03:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s almost as if they’re already American, though! The business of Greenland is business, its leadership emphasized after rumors swirled yesterday that Donald Trump wanted the US to acquire the island from Denmark. The third try is not the charm, Greenland residents told CNN, and not charming either:
President Donald Trump has on multiple occasions brought up buying Greenland from the Danish government and the White House counsel’s office has looked into the possibility, two sources told CNN on Thursday.
The island’s government, however, said in a statement Friday it’s not going to happen: “Greenland is not for sale.” …
“They tried to buy us in 1867, during Second World War, and now they are trying again,” local Kulusuk resident Bent Abeelsen told CNN. “Not gonna happen.”
Greenland’s foreign ministry adopted a more diplomatic tone in discouraging looky-loos. The government also issued a friendly statement thanking us for our interest, but no thanks:
#Greenland is rich in valuable resources such as minerals, the purest water and ice, fish stocks, seafood, renewable energy and is a new frontier for adventure tourism. We're open for business, not for sale❄️🗻🐳🦐🇬🇱 learn more about Greenland on: https://t.co/WulOi3beIC
— Greenland MFA 🇬🇱 (@GreenlandMFA) August 16, 2019
A Government of Greenland spokesperson reiterated that the island was not for sale when approached for comment by ABC News.
“We have a good cooperation with USA, and we see it as an expression of greater interest in investing in our country and the possibilities we offer,” the spokesperson said. “Of course, Greenland is not for sale. Because of the unofficial nature of the news, the Government of Greenland has no further comments.”
Greenland’s taking it with at least some good humor, and why not? When was the last time anyone read about Greenland as a vacation destination, or … as anything at all other than a frozen wasteland? This is the best PR boost their tourism and investment businesses might have imagined, even if it’s likely only to last a few days.
Not everyone was so flattered, however. NBC News went out and found several unhappy Greenlanders to balance out the government’s friendly-yet-firm message. They had to trawl Twitter to find most of the anger:
“I think we take it as a sick joke by a crazy president,” said Anna Kûitse Kúko, 63, who has lived in Tasiilaq nearly all her life and teaches English here. The remark was one of several from local residents who reacted with a mixture of mockery and anger to the reports, which originated with an article in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. …
Online, locals mocked the idea of Trump’s interest in buying their homeland.
“Wow I didn’t know trump knew greenland existed,” tweeted Miki Fleischer from Nuuk, the nation’s capitol.
“Oh please God no,” wrote Emil Malta in response to the idea.
Another resident reposted a parody photo of a traditional Greenlandic landscape unexpectedly dwarfed by a glittering gold Trump Tower.
That was actually a parody by Hot Air pal Jon “Exjon” Gabriel, which deserves an honorable mention here:
Greenland in 10 years. pic.twitter.com/akqWowauyu
— jon gabriel (@exjon) August 15, 2019
Sadly, this now appears to be just another real-estate pipe dream, but it’s tough to imagine that anyone took the idea all that seriously in the first place, let alone Trump. He built his fortune on real estate, and it’s certainly believable that he’d bring that approach to dealing with American security, in which Greenland is an important piece. This sounds like spitballing at most — fun spitballing, perhaps, but spitballing nonetheless.
Okay. That one made me laugh as hard as the elton john meme. Thanks
How do they know their response if they haven’t heard the price?
The importance is to keep it out of Chinese hands for their purchase of land and minerals. The people there have zero ability to defend their land from anyone. Latvia could sail in and take over if it wanted to.
How about if the price translated to $300,000 per inhabitant? That would translate to about $18 Billion. That’s a rounding error at the Pentagon. But the minerals are probably worth more than that, and the benefits for our military are very valuable, too. The inhabitants could become like Puerto Rico, meaning they can travel to the US and become citizens automatically, which is a great value to them and their families. We’re not talking about buying the assets that they already own, just becoming their new sovereign. They can keep their hovels if they want their hovels.
When they think about it, they may just come around.
[58th state, cause Obama has declared that we currently have 57 states.]
Actually 61st state.
Obama said he had been to 57 states
He was not allowed to go to Alaska or Hawaii
And he had 1 left to go.
57 + 2 + 1 = 60 states for Barack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
You can hear the people laughing when he said he’d been to 57 states. And yet they still voted for him.
Where is this coming from? I’ve never heard about any serious interest by Greenland to join the US or vice versa. Is this another media hit on Trump?
It’s not up to Greenland, Denmark owns them and they haven’t said no. Let Putin park a couple of warships off the coast & see how quick they change their tune. I’m not sure we want to take in Greenland though, most of the population is Inuit and not known for industriousness. We’d probably end up with another welfare suckhole like Puerto Rico.
Where are the monkeys rubbing up and down the sides?
They got ahold of a guy who is an EX-leader who was just giving his jaded, anti-Trump opinion that it is not for sale. It is worthy of discussion.
Just over 50,000 residents. So $5B could pay them each $100K. Okay, maybe $50K for each would be enough, with $7.5B going to Denmark for a total $10B outlay.
A bargain.
If we weren’t protecting them they wouldn’t be there.
They called Alaska “Seward’s Folly”. We’ll call this one “Trump’s Triumph”...
RE: We’d probably end up with another welfare suckhole like Puerto Rico.
Denmark is in fact, bleeding cash on this piece of real estate and Trump knows this.
Could you say what the 51st state is?
Are you supporting yourself, Greenland? Then, you’re for sale.
Look, you idiots at CNN (fist of all, I think CNN ‘made up’ this story) EVERYTHING has a sales price .. its a matter of meeting that price OR some other set of conditions or trades ...
Either your Signature or your Brains will be on that Contract.
They should say they sell it for 5 bucks or something to anyone who wants it.
Send In your 5 bucks, get a bit of dirt in the mail.
Eh.....they’re bargaining for more money.
Offer to let them trade places with Puerto Ricans.
That's ok. We don't want 'em anyway.
It is not for Greenland to say. It is owned by Denmark.
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