Like a first-grader who just realized that they have no right to anybody else’s toys, Individual-1 has decided to screw up things with Denmark. Why? Because Denmark won’t give him Greenland, even though he really wants it.
Here’s the latest in the Trump administration’s international diplomacy by Twitter.
Prime Minister Frederiksen, of course, has made it clear that she thought the idea was absurd, while pointing out that Greenland wasn’t really hers to sell.
“Thankfully, the time when you buy and sell other countries and populations is over. Let’s just leave it there.”
Tuesday, Greenland Premier Kim Kielsen told the Associated Press that Trump’s desire to buy the island nation "is not something to joke about."
Trump, of course, had already done just that.
He’d also insisted that September’s meeting in Copenhagen wasn’t actually about Greenland. He didn’t want Greenland that much, guys. It’d be cool to have it, but it’s not a priority.
If it seems extra Trumpish to cancel a meeting that didn’t have low-priority Greenland on the agenda, simply because Trump can’t have Greenland, that’s because it’s ridiculous. Of course, one could argue that this is just the latest distraction, hastily written with two orange thumbs in order to take attention away from his latest act of anti-Semitism, that payroll tax contradiction, all those steel industry layoffs, and Monday’s NRA-driven retreat from the universal background checks he recently embraced.
Actually, it’s me. I’m arguing that.