Greenland’s leader doubled down on rejecting the idea of President Donald Trump purchasing the semi-autonomous Danish territory Tuesday.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1243683
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1243683
President Poe’s Law. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish this administration from a parody of it.
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Of course he doesn’t want to build a tower there, because what he wants to do is to give it to his buddies in the oil and minerals industries and let them dig and drill to their hearts content without having to deal with any regulations whatsoever.
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Gee, one might draw the conclusion that Trump is an arrogant and foolish bully.
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I prefer “blusterer” over “bully”, I think. Usually you can depend on a bully to eventually punch the nerd, not send his lackey to do it.
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What a disgraceful simulation of a human being Trump is.
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So he’s pissing off the people he’s going to visit before he gets there? Sounds amazingly like a Veep episode.
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I don’t blame the Premiere one bit. The idea that Rump would decide to purchase the country is beyond absurd. (And I don’t believe that Rump sent out that tweet. More like Miller who thought it was “hilarious!”.)
By the by - the Prime Minister of Denmark is a woman, Mette Frederiksen. I hope she tears him a new one when she meets with him next month.
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she should tell tRump he can’t afford Greenland, and offer to loan him a few bucks to buy himself a tie that doesn’t hang down to his genitals
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“I promise not to do this to Greenland!”
Yeah, right. He’d do it to North Korea…Greenland is like the Garden of Eden in comparison.
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Greenland offers Trump a great opportunity to launder more Russian money.
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For the rest of our damn lives, every time we travel outside the States or talk to a visiting foreigner, we’ll be suspected of having voted for Trump. And we’ll be known as citizens of a clown country.
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That tweet is just nuckin’ futs.
And if it does somehow reveal his ‘thought processes’ (such as they are), what is he actually revealing? “I know that nobody wants my hotels and name plastered all over the place, so if I promise not to do that, they’ll give me what I want?”
Because, that’s fuckin’ nuts, too.
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Well, he’s finally done it.
He has conditioned me to turn my thoughts instantaneously to Cocoa Puffs.
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Uuuuge tracts of land.
Greenland without the ice. Looks like a large central lake or perhaps an inland sea given that all this ice, if melted, would raise sea level by 6 meters (If the antarctic ice sheet melts that would add another 60 meters. New York would be flooded up to the 15th story of present high buildings. Of course, this is not all of the ice that could potentially melt)
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Agree, except for the word “give”. His taste better come first before anyone else pockets a penny.
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I suggest lying:
“Je suis un Canadien!”
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Hell, 30 years ago I’d be in some airport or train station and the Canadians would have giant maple leaves all over their stuff, it was too funny. God forbid anyone think for a moment they might be from the U.S.
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I suppose he learned it from Putin’s annexation of Crimea and Xi’s appropriation of international waters and disputed islands in the South China Sea as Chinese territory.
He only learns from the best dictators.
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