Trump postpones Denmark trip after Prime Minister refuses to discuss sale of Greenland

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  • Norm dePlume
    Err foil
    • Tuesday, October 22, 2013
    • 14904
    #1

    Trump postpones Denmark trip after Prime Minister refuses to discuss sale of Greenland

    So, I guess he's taking this Greenland thing pretty serious.

    Trump postpones Denmark trip after Prime Minister refuses to discuss sale of Greenland

    (CNN)Less than two weeks before his scheduled trip to Denmark, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he has postponed his visit to Copenhagen after the Danish Prime Minister disputed his interest in buying Greenland as "absurd."

    "Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time," he wrote Tuesday night.

    He continued, "The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct. I thank her for that and look forward to rescheduling sometime in the future!"

    A White House official confirmed to CNN that the entire trip to Denmark is being scrapped.
    Enjoy.
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    • Norm dePlume
      Err foil
      • Tuesday, October 22, 2013
      • 14904
      #2
      View it quick before the embassy deletes it.




      Here's a screen cap, just in case:
      amb tweet.jpg
      Enjoy.

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        • Billy Jingo
          I shave with Occam's Razor
          • Wednesday, October 2, 2013
          • 18663
          #3
          At some point you stop being appalled and just start wondering how stupid this gets. Because, it’s gotten pretty fucking stupid. But it always seems to get stupider.
          “One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”

          ~ Omar El Akkad
          ​

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            • Tom Servo
              Area Man
              • Tuesday, October 1, 2013
              • 5898
              #4
              I don't understand why Trump wants Greenland so bad. It's the best example of why climate change is a problem for humans that exists on this entire planet. He'd have to be confronted with a rather uncomfortable fact. And we all know he is allergic to facts.
              “Any sufficiently advanced capitalism is indistinguishable from rent seeking.” ~ =j

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                • Norm dePlume
                  Err foil
                  • Tuesday, October 22, 2013
                  • 14904
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Tom Servo View Post
                  I don't understand why Trump wants Greenland so bad. It's the best example of why climate change is a problem for humans that exists on this entire planet. He'd have to be confronted with a rather uncomfortable fact. And we all know he is allergic to facts.
                  Maybe he thinks there will be a lot of clear land to use once the ice has all melted. Or maybe he wants to secure a large supply of freshwater for the world-water-crisis near-future. Or maybe he thinks it's a way to create a legacy along the lines of Seward buying Alaska or Jefferson buying the Louisiana Purchase -- the real estate guy adding to the country's real estate. Or maybe he thinks it's a way to prevent Russia and China from putting up air bases too close to the continental US. I don't know. I thought it was a joke at first, and then I saw some Trumpsters defending it as reasonable and provisional and not so serious. And now here's Trump being outright offensive and pissy about it as if he took it pretty serious.
                  Enjoy.

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                    • Novaheart
                      Guardian of civilization
                      • Tuesday, October 1, 2013
                      • 6070
                      #6
                      Isn't he fabulous?
                      The year's at the spring
                      And day's at the morn;
                      Morning's at seven;
                      The hill-side's dew-pearled;
                      The lark's on the wing;
                      The snail's on the thorn:
                      God's in his heaven—
                      All's right with the world!

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                        • Norm dePlume
                          Err foil
                          • Tuesday, October 22, 2013
                          • 14904
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Novaheart View Post
                          Isn't he fabulous?
                          To the cult, I suppose.

                          If I asked what you think is fabulous here, I'm guessing your answer would be something about how effectively it "triggers the libs" or whatever the cult is calling it these days. Because, as I've often said, that is the one true core value of Trumpism. But, please, give me another reason it's "fabulous". Tell us how those fucking Danes deserve their comeuppance. Tell us how it's brilliant strategy. Tell us anything that shows you still have an independent neuron or two.
                          Last edited by Norm dePlume; Wednesday, August 21, 2019, 1:10 AM.
                          Enjoy.

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                            • Newman
                              Behind the Iron Curtain
                              • Friday, November 1, 2013
                              • 25814
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Norm dePlume View Post
                              So, I guess he's taking this Greenland thing pretty serious.







                              Buying Canada makes more sense to me anyway.
                              • "I'm a hell of a lot smarter than most of you guys." — Joe Biden, at Jesse Jackson's funeral, March 2026.​
                              • "That's all I do in my life. I make deals. I'm really good at it." — President Donald Trump, Oct. 13, 2025.
                              • “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out,” — David Horowitz.
                              • "We [Democrats] are all willing to work with anyone who is serious about doing the work of censoring the American people, and advancing progress."​ — Ayanna Pressley, explaining progressives.
                              • ​​"Florida is where Woke goes to die." — Ron DeSantis.
                              • "No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence." — Nancy Pelosi, explaining Lawfare.
                              • “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”​— Ben Franklin, who got it right.
                              • "The way I see it, there's always, c'mon, there's always money. It's there." — Elizabeth Warren, explaining socialism.
                              • "The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn't originally a climate thing at all.... We really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing." — Saikat Chakrabarti, then AOC's Chief of Staff.

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                                • Newman
                                  Behind the Iron Curtain
                                  • Friday, November 1, 2013
                                  • 25814
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by Tom Servo View Post
                                  I don't understand why Trump wants Greenland so bad. It's the best example of why climate change is a problem for humans that exists on this entire planet. He'd have to be confronted with a rather uncomfortable fact. And we all know he is allergic to facts.
                                  We're driving down the value of Greenland as a negotiating tactic?

                                  Just a guess.

                                  As I recall it was named Greenland as an advertising ploy to begin with.

                                  If we bought it, I guess we could say it's the New Greenland Deal.
                                  • "I'm a hell of a lot smarter than most of you guys." — Joe Biden, at Jesse Jackson's funeral, March 2026.​
                                  • "That's all I do in my life. I make deals. I'm really good at it." — President Donald Trump, Oct. 13, 2025.
                                  • “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out,” — David Horowitz.
                                  • "We [Democrats] are all willing to work with anyone who is serious about doing the work of censoring the American people, and advancing progress."​ — Ayanna Pressley, explaining progressives.
                                  • ​​"Florida is where Woke goes to die." — Ron DeSantis.
                                  • "No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence." — Nancy Pelosi, explaining Lawfare.
                                  • “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”​— Ben Franklin, who got it right.
                                  • "The way I see it, there's always, c'mon, there's always money. It's there." — Elizabeth Warren, explaining socialism.
                                  • "The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn't originally a climate thing at all.... We really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing." — Saikat Chakrabarti, then AOC's Chief of Staff.

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                                    • Norm dePlume
                                      Err foil
                                      • Tuesday, October 22, 2013
                                      • 14904
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by Norm dePlume View Post
                                      Tell us anything that shows you still have an independent neuron or two.
                                      And the response was silence.
                                      Enjoy.

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                                        • phillygirl
                                          Not superior, just kind
                                          • Wednesday, October 2, 2013
                                          • 19840
                                          #11
                                          Nova...you're about to be added to the spreadsheet!
                                          Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live...
                                          Robert Southwell, S.J.

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                                            • Norm dePlume
                                              Err foil
                                              • Tuesday, October 22, 2013
                                              • 14904
                                              #12
                                              Originally posted by phillygirl View Post
                                              Nova...you're about to be added to the spreadsheet!
                                              I know you want to make "spreadsheet" happen, but that isn't what spreadsheets are for.
                                              Enjoy.

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                                                • Michele
                                                  Senior Member
                                                  • Wednesday, October 2, 2013
                                                  • 13964
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by Norm dePlume View Post
                                                  I know you want to make "spreadsheet" happen, but that isn't what spreadsheets are for.
                                                  What isn't what spreadsheets are for?
                                                  May we raise children who love the unloved things - the dandelion, the worm, the spiderlings.
                                                  Children who sense the rose needs the thorn and run into rainswept days the same way they turn towards the sun...
                                                  And when they're grown and someone has to speak for those who have no voice,
                                                  may they draw upon that wilder bond, those days of tending tender things and be the one.

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