‘Not for Sale’: Trump’s Talk of Buying Greenland Draws Derision

Posted on AllSides August 16th, 2019
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President Trump’s idea to possibly buy Greenland for its natural resources left residents of the semiautonomous Danish territory amused, apoplectic and in disbelief, and received a chilly reception in Denmark on Friday.

“I hope it’s a joke, because it’s a terrible and grotesque thought,” said Martin Lidegaard, chairman of Denmark’s Foreign Policy Committee.

“It must be an April Fool’s Day joke … but totally out of season,” Lars Lokke Rasmussen, a former prime minister of Denmark and the leader of the opposition, posted on Twitter.

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https://nytimes.com/2019/08/16/world/europe/trump-greenland-denmark.html

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