Trump looking to buy Greenland?

CaughtInTheMiddle · August 16, 2019, 2:27pm

I didn’t know that.

Cool stuff.

Blackwolf · August 16, 2019, 2:55pm

Can’t stop thinking about this scene (cut to 1:22 for the relevant part):

W_and_C · August 16, 2019, 6:05pm

You think I was seriously suggesting that ?

W_and_C · August 16, 2019, 6:05pm

Lol, twitter

johnrandolph · August 17, 2019, 12:16am

Bill.in.PA · August 17, 2019, 12:28am

And Greenlandic is the only official language.

Here is what it sounds like:

DougBH · August 17, 2019, 1:03am

Is it true they have 47 different words meaning “whale fat” and no word meaning “warm”?

CaughtInTheMiddle · August 17, 2019, 1:07am

Press 1 for English
Press 2 for Spanish
Press 3 for Greenlandic

57Nomad · August 17, 2019, 2:20am

DOLOOP:

W_and_C:

Smart investment or nah ?

President Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland - WSJ

WASHINGTON—President Trump made his name on the world’s most famous island. Now he wants to buy the world’s biggest.

The idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland has captured the former real-estate developer’s imagination, according to people familiar with the deliberations, 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 they discuss its abundant resources and geopolitical importance, and, according to two of the people, has asked his White House counsel to look into the idea.

Some of his advisers have supported the concept, saying it was a good economic play, two of the people said, while others dismissed it as a fleeting fascination that will never come to fruition. It is also unclear how the U.S. would go about acquiring Greenland even if the effort was serious.

Odd thing to obsess on, but far from the most insane of his impulses.

Let’s hope he never sees the movie ‘‘The Purge’’

zonulet · August 17, 2019, 5:15am

lol, well to be fair, hate Harry Truman. He toyed with the idea first.

zonulet · August 17, 2019, 5:19am

Nah…“Tump’s Green New Deal” sounds better.

Samm · August 17, 2019, 5:31am

Probably the same person who told you.

Ex-Pat · August 17, 2019, 6:23am

Doesn’t Greenland already some of the highest alcoholism and suicide rates in the world?

Having them bought by Donald Trump seems downright dangerous.

Samm · August 17, 2019, 6:35am

You’re just being negative. His real reason to surround Canada.

Samm · August 17, 2019, 6:39am

The key word there was map. What the astronauts see is not a map.

Samm · August 17, 2019, 6:42am

You’ve never been to Alaska, have you.

zonulet · August 17, 2019, 7:06am

They do have a tasty winter meal. They stuff
whole auks, feathers, beaks everything into seal skins seen up and sealed with seal fat to keep the flies away. The birds ferment for 3 months. During the Arctic winter they feast on the Kaviak. It’s a custom food during special occasions.
Trump could get them McDonalds or two.

W_and_C · August 17, 2019, 8:38am

So probably an occasional white supremacist rally and a mass shooting won’t make that big a difference.

Paul_Thomson · August 17, 2019, 9:30am

Greenland has the highest suicide rate in the world. They need an optimistic visionary leader to lift their spirits. Trump and the American Constitution would be a tonic for the Greenlanders. You’d think they’d leap at the chance to start to benefit from their oil and mineral reserves, get jobs and start winning.

westaussie · August 17, 2019, 11:19am

Very, very doubtful.