Category: Denmark

8/22/2019

DENMARK/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘I’m not going to enter a war of words with anybody, including the American president,’ Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, told a Danish television channel on Wednesday [8-21-19]. Too late. In Denmark, a small country with powerful neighbors, commitment to international alliances is bedrock policy, and polite, measured political debate is […]

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8/20/2019

DENMARK/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct. I thank her for that and look forward to rescheduling sometime in the future!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 20, 2019 6:51 pm […]

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8/20/2019

DENMARK/FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 20, 2019 6:51 pm […]

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8/16/2019

DENMARK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s idea to possibly buy Greenland for its natural resources left residents of the semiautonomous Danish territory amused, apoplectic and in disbelief, and received a chilly reception in Denmark on Friday [8-16-19]…The idea first sprang up last year, when Mr. Trump was said to have joked about buying Greenland for its […]

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8/16/2019

DENMARK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Go ahead and file this one under Stories You Probably Didn’t Expect to Read About the White House This Week: President Trump has been thinking about buying Greenland. Greenland says no, absolutely not…Greenland’s Foreign Affairs Ministry was a bit less colorful: ‘We’re open for business, not for sale,’ the agency posted on […]

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