Trump calls Danish PM's statement on Greenland ‘nasty’. More here:
WASHINGTON/COPENHAGEN - President Donald Trump declared Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s dismissal of his idea to buy Greenland “nasty” and an affront to the United States on Wednesday, a day after shocking Danes by canceling a Copenhagen visit over the rebuff.
Former Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen called it “an April Fool’s Day joke” and Frederiksen called the idea “absurd.” Frederiksen, a center-left Social Democrat, said she learned of Trump’s decision “with regret and surprise”, given Denmark’s strong relations with Washington, but she repeated her opposition to any Greenland transaction.She stressed that Greenland’s premier, Kim Kielsen, had ruled out selling off the territory and “I obviously agree with him.”
“So has cancelled his visit to Denmark because there was no interest in discussing selling Greenland. Is this some sort of joke? Deeply insulting to the people of Greenland and Denmark,” tweeted former Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt. “Everyone should know Greenland is not for sale,” Jensen said of the world’s largest island, where the United States has a military presence at the Thule Air Base under a U.S.-Danish treaty dating to 1951.
“It shows why we now more than ever should consider European Union countries as our closest allies. The man is unpredictable,” said Morten Ostergaard, leader of the Danish Social Liberal Party. “Reality surpasses imagination.”
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Trump calls Danish PM 'nasty' for her comments on Greenland saleThe president called off the visit after the prime minister rebuffed his interest in buying Greenland, a Danish territory.
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Trump makes it personal with Danish PM over Greenland, calling her statement ‘nasty’A day after canceling his trip to Denmark over its refusal to sell Greenland, President Trump on Wednesday tore into Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen for calling his idea of buying it "absurd."
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Danish PM says she was surprised to learn Trump canceled trip over Greenland flapTrump called off the visit Tuesday after the prime minister rebuffed his interest in buying Greenland, a Danish territory.
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