Here is an article published on August 21, 2019. Do the Danes have a think tank – AND SPIES? If so, you would think they would put at least one man (or woman) on THE DEMENTED DONALD FILE. The election is three months away. Did Danish leaders have their finger’s crossed, hoping Donald’s Dummies are just Damn Dumb, and not…
FUCKING CRAZY!
When did Danish leaders know for sure the DD were
OUT OF THEIR MINDS?
Did they alas put a man on this NUTCASE…
after Jan,6th.? 2020?
John Presco
EXTRA! I just found another BIG JOKE story! Did any Democratic leaders read these THREATS TO IGNORE LAWS?
Trump Skips Visit To Denmark, Calls Danish Leader ‘Nasty’ For Greenland Sale Rebuff
By Scott Neuman,
Published August 21, 2019 at 1:39 AM ED
Updated at 1:35 p.m. ET
President Trump has called the Danish prime minister’s comments “nasty” after she rejected the idea of selling Greenland to the United States as “absurd” — in an escalation of diplomatic tensions that began suddenly last week.
Trump complained Wednesday at the White House that Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s statement was “not nice” and showed disrespect.
“All she had to do was say ‘No, we wouldn’t be interested,’ ” he told reporters. “She’s not talking to me, she’s talking to the United States of America.”
The president announced in a Tuesday night tweet that he was calling off his visit to Denmark. He said Denmark is “a very special country with incredible people,” but that “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 …”
He said he would reschedule his visit and thanked Frederiksen for saving “a great deal of expense for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct.”
The responses from Greenland and Denmark have ranged from frustration to anger.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, who served as Denmark’s first female prime minister from 2011 to 2015, expressed incredulity. “Is this some sort of joke?” she wrote on Twitter. “Deeply insulting to the people of Greenland and Denmark.”
Lars Lokke Rasmussen, who became prime minister after Thorning-Schmidt, said, “It is no shame not to show up if you haven’t been invited … but if you have invited yourself.”
Rasmus Jarlov, a member of Danish parliament, agreed that the cancellation was insulting, tweeting, “As a Dane (and a conservative) it is very hard to believe… Are parts of the US for sale? Alaska? Please show more respect.”
Morten Ostergaard, the leader of Denmark’s Social Liberal party, said Trump’s move “shows why, more than ever, we should consider the EU countries as our closest allies.” He added, “The man is incalculable.”
Greenlandic politician Aaja Chemnitz Larsen said Trump’s cancellation showed how important Greenland was, before she commended Denmark for rejecting “Circus Trump.”
Earlier this week, Trump confirmed a story first reported in The Wall Street Journal that he had asked aides to look into the idea of buying Greenland, a self-governing Danish overseas territory.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, he compared the idea to “a large real estate deal” and said “it’s something we’ve talked about.” He suggested that the island, which is financially reliant on Denmark, had become a burden for Copenhagen and that it was “strategically interesting” to the United States.
In a tweet on Monday, the president posted a digitally altered photo of a golden Trump Tower superimposed on a seaside village with the caption, “I promise not to do this to Greenland!”
Trump, who was invited to visit Denmark by Queen Margrethe II and was scheduled to arrive there on Sept. 2, had said Sunday that any visit to the Scandinavian country would not be for the purpose of discussing a Greenland deal, a claim he appeared to contradict by canceling the trip.
In Denmark and Greenland, reaction to the president’s suggestion ranged from a polite “no” to open derision.
“Greenland is not for sale,” Frederiksen said while on a trip to Greenland earlier this week. “I strongly hope that this is not meant seriously.”
When the story first surfaced, former Prime Minister Rasmussen tweeted incredulously that the idea must be an “April Fool’s Day joke.”
Danes react with anger after Trump cancels state visit over Greenland dispute
“The reality is stranger than fiction,” tweeted one lawmaker.
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Aug. 21, 2019, 4:53 AM PDT / Updated Aug. 21, 2019, 7:58 AM PDT
By Caroline Radnofsky and Christina Marker
Danish politicians and citizens reacted with surprise and frustration Wednesday to the news that President Donald Trump had postponed a planned state visit to Denmark in response to its prime minister’s rejection of his interest in buying Greenland, a Danish territory.
“It is with regret and surprise that I received the news” of Trump’s cancelation, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said at a news conference, adding that the government’s preparations had been “well underway.”
“I was looking forward to having a dialogue on the many shared interests that Denmark has with U.S.” she said, adding that those interests included developments in the Arctic, which “call for further cooperation between the U.S. and Greenland, Faroe Islands and Denmark.”
“And therefore, I would like to underline our invitation for stronger cooperation on Arctic affairs still stands,” Frederiksen said. She added, however, that any potential sale of Greenland to the U.S. “has clearly been rejected.”
Morten Østergaard, leader of Radikale Venstre, a center-left party in a ruling coalition with the Socialdemokratiet party, tweeted, “The reality is stranger than fiction. It shows why, more than ever, we should regard E.U. countries as our closest allies. The man is unreliable.”
Both sides of the country’s political spectrum were united in anger. “So Mr. Trump — you have now decided to postpone your visit to Denmark. Why not just cancel? We are so busy here with other things …” wrote Søren Espersen, a member of Parliament for the populist right-wing Dansk Folkeparti.
One Danish lawmaker called on Trump to “show more respect.”
Trump tweeted on Tuesday that he was postponing the trip, which had been planned for Sept. 2, after Frederiksen told reporters Monday on a visit to Greenland: “Greenland is not for sale. Greenland is not Danish. Greenland belongs to Greenland.”
“Great friends & Allies like US and DK should be able to discuss all issues openly & candidly,” tweeted U.S. ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands on Wednesday.
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Frederiksen told reporters Wednesday that the U.S. remained one of Denmark’s closest allies. “We will of course, from Denmark, continue our ongoing dialogue with the U.S. on how we can develop our cooperation and deal with the many common challenges we are facing,” she said.
Some Danes had been planning to greet Trump with a range of satirical protests — some of which are set to go ahead anyway.
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Morten Skovgaard, a self-employed communications consultant living in Copenhagen, had been in the process of obtaining permits for the Trump “baby blimp” to fly over Copenhagen during a protest planned for Sept. 2. The 20-foot balloon depicting the president as an angry infant has been seen at protests in London and Washington.
Skovgaard said he still plans to fly the Trump effigy on Sept. 2 to channel disapproval of Trump and frustration at Denmark’s recent reluctant foray into the global spotlight.
“When you encounter something absurd, meet it with absurdity,” he said.
Skovgaard said Danes were struggling to understand how their country’s relationship with an ally could have become so inconsistent.
“We love the U.S. We have a lot in common and have supported each other over the years. We will keep doing that. How is it possible for one man to flip in the media and jeopardize the entire relationship?” he said. “A lot of public debate today in Denmark is how we still have any normality in otherwise good relations we’ve had.”
Light-up signs bearing the president’s name were taken down Wednesday from two prime real-estate locations in Copenhagen’s main square after the owner of the building enacted a clause in the contract, their funder told NBC News. “It has served its purpose,” said Nicolai Oster, who splits his time between Denmark and Switzerland.
Oster emphasized that while he was “not a Trump fan,” he had rented the signs to show support for the visit and counter “grown-up Danes behaving like kindergarten children toward the representative of our most important ally.” He blames the visit being canceled on his government’s response to Trump’s interest in Greenland.
“The Danish government and politicians have from the beginning said, ‘No, no, no, we are not engaging in any discussion and debate about the whole Greenland situation. … Because it’s Trump, we will say no and make fun of him,’” Oster told NBC News.
“Why should he come? I understand him.”
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