Yes. That is a pretty charitable explanation. Below is what he wrote, according to Fox News. I thought people were making that up.
“Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time,” Trump wrote.
“The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct,” he added. “I thank her for that and look forward to rescheduling sometime in the future!”
What I don’t understand is that all of this hopeful guessing and conjecture was absolutely unnecessary because we know EXACTLY why all of this happened. There’s no need to guess. No one was making anything up. There was no “left-wing nonsense.”
I understand showing a little extra scrutiny to a situation that seems so dumb, but it’s only dumb because of Trump. We’ve started to become numb to his stupidity, blaming the #FakeNews LSM" for covering his stupidity instead of looking at the person actually saying the stupid things.
Let’s try an example that more accurately articulates what happened.
Suppose Obama was visiting Ireland and said he wanted to buy Buckingham palace. The president of Ireland says “I don’t have the authority to sell the palace, since Ireland doesn’t own it, but I don’t think it’s for sale anyway.” Then Obama cancels the trip to Ireland saying “thanks for saving me a trip” even though the trip wasn’t supposed to be about buying the palace.