They included an image of Trump Tower photoshopped into an eastern Belgium town. The photo appeared to a parody of one that Trump posted on Monday showing Trump Tower edited into Greenland.
Trump suggested over the weekend that the U.S. should purchase Greenland, an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Denmark."Strategically, it's interesting, and we'd be interested, but we'll talk to them a little bit. It's not number one on the burner," the president told reporters in Bedminster, New Jersey on Sunday, comparing the purchase to a"large real estate deal.
After Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen dismissed Trump's idea as"absurd," the U.S. president announced that he"will be postponing" an upcoming visit to the nation"based on" Frederiksen's comments that"she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland." U.S. President Donald Trump looks back at journalists after welcoming Mongolian President Battulga Khaltmaa to the White House July 31, 2019 in Washington, DC. A group of Belgium politicians on Thursday joking offered to sell Trump Wallonia for one Euro amid the Greenland dispute.Despite Trump's claim that the trip was postponed, the White House later clarified that the visit has actually been canceled. The Danish royal house also confirmed the trip was canceled, according to the BBC.
Trump's suggestion to buy Greenland and his decision to cancel his visit to the region has been met with widespread condemnation and anger by politicians in Greenland, Denmark and the U.S. A former U.S. ambassador to Copenhagen on Wednesday toldthat Trump had placed his"finger in the eye of a great ally" by canceling his visit to Denmark.
"I think it's embarrassing for the United States," said Rufus Gifford, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama as American ambassador to Copenhagen in 2013."I think it's embarrassing for diplomacy, it's embarrassing for American foreign policy."
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