Headline Roundup • August 16th, 2019
President Trump Reportedly Interested in Buying Greenland
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New York Post (News)
President Trump has reportedly talked to his aides and allies about whether the US could buy Greenland â but the countryâs foreign minister said Friday that the worldâs biggest island is not on the market.
âWe are open for business, but weâre NOT for sale,â Ane Lone Bagger told Reuters.
People familiar with the deliberations said Trump asked his White House counsel to look into the matter, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported about his interest.
President Trump made his name on the worldâs most famous island. Now he wants to buy the worldâs biggest.
The idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland has captured the former real-estate developerâs imagination, according to people familiar with the discussion, who said Mr. Trump has, with varying degrees of seriousness, repeatedly expressed interest in buying the ice-covered autonomous Danish territory between the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
In meetings, at dinners and in passing conversations, Mr. Trump has asked advisers whether the U.S. can acquire Greenland, listened with interest when...
New York Times (News)
President Trumpâs 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.
âI hope itâs a joke, because itâs a terrible and grotesque thought,â said Martin Lidegaard, chairman of Denmarkâs Foreign Policy Committee.
âIt must be an April Foolâs Day joke ⌠but totally out of season,â Lars Lokke Rasmussen, a former prime minister of Denmark and the leader of the opposition, posted on Twitter.
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