IMO Trump is pissed because there were probably behind the scenes discussions with the Danes who seemed receptive to the possibility. When it became public, the Danes feigned surprise and dismissed it as absurd. Trump responded by canceling the trip.
The Danes need to get a copy of Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal”.
Then they won’t be surprised any more.
A US acquisition of Greenland would be _great_ for US national morale—and Trump _can_ make it happen.
Yep.
Trump’s tweet was just a not-very-well disguised FU to the Danes.
And, as it turns out, fully deserved. “This has gone from a great opportunity for a strengthened dialogue between allies to a diplomatic crisis.”
Yeah. Sure. A “diplomatic crisis” with a country we really couldn’t (and shouldn’t) care less about.
That sounds accurate
Precisely, Trump just didn’t come up with this Greenland sale out of the clear blue.
My suspicion is that there were some hint’s from The Danes that the Greenland sale would be up for discussion then Frederiksenthen comes out in public with the “absurd” comment and pi$$ed Trump off.
I think you nailed it. Of course advance work is done for such a visit. And the US would not buy Greenland for a golf resort development, either, but rather for its geostrategic location.
I got a what if for everyone...could china have been trying to broker a deal behind the scene for access to resources and construction of a military base with Denmark and trump talking about making a deal with Denmark make such a deal politicly impossible to happen because now the public in Denmark is watching what its politicians are doing.