Greenland Responds To Reports Trump Wants To Buy It

I wrote about this yesterday, and I was WILDLY confused by it.

NEWS from the @WSJ WH team: President Trump has repeatedly talked to advisers about the possibility of the U.S. buying Greenland. https://t.co/JvTlhOZsad

— Ben Pershing (@benpershing) August 15, 2019

Huh?

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 were serious.

With a population of about 56,000, Greenland is a self-ruling part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and while its government decides on most domestic matters, foreign and security policy is handled by Copenhagen. Mr. Trump is scheduled to make his first visit to Denmark early next month, although the visit is unrelated, these people said.

I had SO many questions.

Would Greenland be a state or a territory?

Would Greenland be a red or blue state?

IS GREENLAND EVEN FOR SALE?!

Well, Greenland has responded. The short answer? No.

According to Fox News:

Greenland dismissed reports that U.S. President Donald Trump has thought about purchasing the world’s biggest island, saying it was “open for business, not for sale.”

And there you go. Not happening.

A report in the Wall Street Journal claimed that Trump has reportedly expressed interest in acquiring Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, for the U.S.

White House sources told the Journal that Trump asked his advisers about acquiring the island during “meetings, dinners, and passing conversations” because of Greenland’s “abundant resources and geopolitical importance.”

A Trump ally told the Associated Press on Thursday that Trump had discussed the purchase but was not serious about it.

A real bummer, really. It would have been lovely to visit without needing a passport.

So… is this conversation over? On to the next one.