Trump Once Joked About Trading Puerto Rico For Greenland | Talking Points Memo

While President Trump seemed to pull his interest in purchasing Greenland out of thin air this week, he’s actually been privately talking about buying the Danish region for more than a year, according to the New York Times.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1244138
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Pathological arrogance.

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“Joked”?

He hates Puerto Rico. Feuds with the leaders. People are brown. They don’t consider him the Second Coming of God or the Chosen One even when he throws paper towels to them.

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He thinks Greenlanders are blond, blue-eyed Vikings. Most of them, however, are Inuits. Wouldn’t he be surprised!

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Pathological ignorance.

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If there’s even a single Rump lover in Greenland, he’s probably bitching on face book about the Eskimo Invasion.

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Ahhhhh…the plot thickens…killing two birds with one stone = more Trump Golf/Spa for Ivanka and getting rid of those Puertoricans who are poor + NOT the ‘wretched non-nobility Europeans’…
What a stable genius!

When it comes to Trump…’BELIEF ME FOLKS’, Trump does NOT joke about cruelty & dehumanization of POC!

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How about we trade you, Spankee, for a real president? Like Obama, Hillary Clinton, or Elizabeth Warren. And I am NOT kidding, asshole.

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NATO requires member nations to come to the aid of other member nations under attack. What Trump has done over the last 48 hours to Denmark is outrageous, and definitely an attack, of sorts. Notable in all this is the deafening silence of other NATO members regarding Trump’s idiocies. Where is the support for Denmark from other nations in this diplomatic onslaught the United States is waging against a fellow NATO member?

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Some joke, the asshole would do it in a second if it was possible.

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He’s already done so many “big” things that I don’t think we could take anything else. Something big to me would be to see him on his way to prison.

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Can we trade Trump for ______________?

Sorry, couldn’t think of a worthwhile exchange.

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Not entirely OT but if you googled “Donald Trump” this morning just to see what he was up to the general thrust of the coverage is simply how outrageous and weird he’s been lately. One interesting tidbit–apropos of nothing much, he praisingly mentioned Henry Ford, who’s better known in eighth-grade history books as an early industrialist than as a raging anti-Semite. So that’s intriguing.

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Lately?

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Whenever Trump jokes, it’s time to be seriously concerned.

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And that’s saying something. :grinning:

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Perhaps we can trade Trump Tower and Mar-a-lago for a Danish hazardous waste dump…

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If they choose to act quietly to help insure the integrity of the 2020 elections, I’m good with that.

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Theory; Buying Greenland is a plot to use it as a poker chip for President Lardass, to offer if Vladditchka calls up and says “tomorrow we release the tape…unless you are having something to offer?”

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Trump decided to start a feud with Denmark…

A feud? Really? It’s an embarrassing diplomatic incident.

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