Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland

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Source: Wall Street Journal

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 were serious.



Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyes-a-new-real-estate-purchase-greenland-11565904223?mod=hp_lead_pos5

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Sorry its WSJ so paywall.

Apparently Truman tried and A Johnson tried before.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. What if it isn't up for sale?

[bluestarone]

2. Yea then he will turn around and

Sell it to pUTIN for enormous profit. What a jerk

[Farmer-Rick]

3. Well he's already sold off the US to Putin

Why not add another country for his master.

[Blue_Tires]

4. Fuck this asshole... Seriously

[Traildogbob]

13. Yep. Fuck him

Where is all the "How we gonna pay for it" Fiscal CONservitive screaming? No health care, no infrastructure, but, buy an Island? 🐘🔥💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰🔥🔥🔥

[EarthFirst]

5. I wasn't aware Greenland was for sale...

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Bet he reverses Seward's Folly

just a hunch

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Just for fun, here's an old article...

It's actually got some interesting stuff in it once you get past the propaganda.

Dmitry Sudakov 22.06.2009 05:01

Greenland to become 51st state of the United States


http://www.pravdareport.com/world/107827-greenland/

[Grasswire2]

8. anything to capture the news cycle. nt

[qazplm135]

9. I mean it's probably to our benefit to own it

but not hugely so.

[Sgent]

10. The article makes that case

apparently Trump became interested after the national security apparatus nearly had a heart attack regarding China's proposed investment.

[Eugene]

11. I strongly hoped this was The Onion.

This is a level of human stupidity that may prove Albert Einstein correct. SMH

[NastyRiffraff]

18. If The Onion's writers would come up with this

Their editors would tell them good satire must be believable.

[TygrBright]

12. Do the people who live there get a say? n/t

[riversedge]

14. At first--I thought it was the ONION. I was just reading the article--

His legacy!!


...........People outside the White House have described purchasing Greenland as an Alaska-type acquisition for Mr. Trump’s legacy, advisers said. The few current and former White House officials who had heard of the notion described it with a mix of anticipation and apprehension, since it remains unknown how far the president might push the idea.

[Chemisse]

15. It will likely be prime territory after all the ice has melted.

I doubt the people of Greenland would be pleased. It is described as an autonomous Danish territory. Trump would certainly impose his will on the inhabitants in some frightful way.

[riversedge]

16. Trump wants bragging rights. Greenland is 47X larger than Alaska..............

http://www.comparea.org/GRL+US_AK



https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-eyes-a-new-real-estate-purchase-greenland-11565904223?mod=hp_lead_pos5


The person described the question less as a serious inquiry than as a joke meant to indicate “I’m so powerful I could buy a country,” noting that since Mr. Trump hadn’t floated the idea at a campaign rally yet, he probably wasn’t seriously considering it. The person believed the president was interested in the idea because of the island’s natural resources and because it would give him a legacy akin to President Dwight Eisenhower ’s admission of Alaska into the U.S. as a state.


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.............Kenneth Mortensen, a real-estate agent in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, said that the running joke in Greenland currently is that Mr. Trump is traveling to Denmark with the sole intention of buying their island. But he said Mr. Trump might run into some trouble.

“You can never own land here,” Mr. Mortensen said, as all land is owned by the government. “In Greenland, you get a right to use the land where you want to build a house, but you can’t buy.”

“Of course, buying Greenland is a different issue altogether,” he added. “I’m not sure about that.”

[GeoWilliam750]

19. I think that is "47%" larger than Alaska

Also, it depends on how it is calculated. Wiki's figures say that Greenland is 26% larger than Alaska, although it depends on how you calculate bodies of water.

[FakeNoose]

17. He probably wants to put the Mexicans & Central Americans up there

[FailureToCommunicate]

20. Pssst. Maybe no one's told Trump that the Vikings names it Greenland to fool...

others to settle there.
Whereas they named the place they preferred "Iceland"

[Omaha Steve]

21. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING

Speculation of something is not LBN.