Diplomats Stunned by Trump’s Feud With Denmark

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“Sometimes it is hard to believe that what Trump is saying and doing on the world stage is actually happening,” said the former ambassador to NATO. “This is one of those days.”

“I realize this is yet another bizarre and humorous Trump moment for the late night talk shows here in the U.S.,” Burns told me. “But, for the rest of the world, particularly our allies, it is simply shocking how far America has fallen from grace in their eyes.”

That Denmark has no interest in cutting such a deal shouldn’t have come as a surprise to the White House. For one, the idea makes little sense from a logistical perspective. “Denmark can’t sell it because it is a protectorate.... it is not even up to them,” explained Brett Bruen, a former Foreign Service Officer. The U.S. already leases land in Greenland to support the Thule Air Base. And Greenlanders—all 56,000 or so of them—would presumably see little reason to exchange their current head of state for a man who couldn’t find Greenland on a map.

“It is truly bizarre. On one level I am surprised that he even knows Greenland exists and beyond that, that he knows it belongs to Denmark,” a former high-ranking State Department official told me.


https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/diplomats-stunned-by-trumps-feud-with-denmark?utm_brand=vanity-fair&utm_social-type=earned

[Dan]

Why?

Do they really not know Trump by now???

[wvit1001]

you don't believe he's serious in what he says or in his calling the Prime Minister a "nasty"  woman?

[warrenpees]

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