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Greenland Tells Trump it is Open For Business, Not for Sale

Reuters

   COPENHAGEN - Greenland on Friday dismissed the notion that it might be
   up for sale after reports that U.S. President Donald Trump had
   privately discussed with his advisers the idea of buying the world's
   biggest island.
   "We are open for business, but we're not for sale," Greenland's foreign
   minister Ane Lone Bagger told Reuters.
   Trump is due to visit Copenhagen in September and the Arctic will be on
   the agenda during meetings with the prime ministers of Denmark and
   Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory.
   Talk of a Greenland purchase was first reported by the Wall Street
   Journal. Two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters that the
   notion had been laughed off by some advisers as
   a joke but was taken more seriously by others in the White House.
   Danish politicians on Friday poured scorn on the idea.
   "It has to be an April Fool's joke. Totally out of season," former
   prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Twitter.
   "If he is truly contemplating this, then this is final proof, that he
   has gone mad," foreign affairs spokesman for the Danish People's Party,
   Soren Espersen, told broadcaster DR.
   "The thought of Denmark selling 50,000 citizens to the United States is
   completely ridiculous," he said.

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