Posted on 08/21/2019 11:05:01 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: 'You don't talk to the United States that way under me!' Donald Trump accuses Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of being 'nasty' for calling his plan to buy Greenland 'absurd' after he canceled state visit in fury at territory not being for sale
Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of being 'nasty' when she said his plan to buy Greenland was 'absurd.'
The president told reporters on the South lawn her statement on the matter 'was nasty' during a 35-minute, free wheeling exchange that included his thoughts on gun background checks, Israel, the New York Times, China and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
'I thought that the prime minister's statement that it was absurd - that it was an absurd idea - was nasty. I thought it was an inappropriate statement. All she had to do is say no, we wouldn't be interested,' he said.
'She shouldn't treat the United States that way. She said absurd. That's not the right word to use. Absurd,' he noted.
'I thought it was an inappropriate statement. All she had to do is say no, we wouldn't be interested,' he said of Frederiksen's reaction to his proposal to buy the world's largest island, which is a Danish territory.
'I thought it was a very not nice way of saying something. They could have told me no,' he said, adding: 'All they had to do is say, no, we would rather not do that or we would rather not talk about it. Don't say what an absurd idea that is.'
He accused her of insulting the United States with her response.
'She's not talking to me,' he said of Frederiksen. 'She's talking to the United States of America. You don't talk to the United States that way. At least underme
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So, what do you think? Invade both Greenland and Denmark simultaneously?
Heck, we probably wouldn’t have to fire a shot in Greenland.
5.56mm
Viking marketing...
Why not? Let's get all the dumb ideas on the table.
Maybe they would consider a trade.
California for Greenland.
Straight up.
Erik the Red named it Greenland in hopes of attracting settlers. He must have realized that Iceland’s name kept people from wanting to go there.
Who will they turn to if China or Russia makes a hostile grab?
6D linear algebra
The USA was neutral.
Ignoramus.
All of a sudden... I saw the nasty side... of Trump that people have been talking about. I thought it was just so much fluff.
Guess, I was wrong.
He’s nasty to nasty people.
The Obama years have convinced too many in Europe that the US exists to serve them.
Denmark has all of 6 million people and is totally dependent on others to maintain its independence. Its diplomats ought to be very very nice to us and it is extraordinary almost beyond belief that being rude is even in their self-perceived bag of options.
Not really if you consider Roosevelt's pledge to be the “Arsenal of Democracy”, Lend Lease, and the U.S. institution of its first-ever peacetime draft.
The U.S. initially did hope to stay out of Europe's fratricide but by the late 30’s recognized it would have to straighten that mess out again. That's probably why the bad guys attacked the U.S.
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