‘This is final proof that he has gone mad’: Denmark mocks Trump’s reported desire to buy Greenland

Amid reports that President Donald Trump has directed aides to examine whether the United States can purchase Greenland—an autonomous territory of Denmark—Danish lawmakers on Friday condemned the idea as both absurd and “grotesque.”

“If he is truly contemplating this, then this is final proof that he has gone mad,” Soren Espersen, foreign affairs spokesman for the Danish People’s Party, toldlocal broadcaster DR. “The thought of Denmark selling 50,000 citizens to the United States is completely ridiculous.”

The Wall Street Journal first reported on Trump’s desire to purchase Greenland Thursday night.

View the complete August 16 article by Jake Johnson from Common Dreams on the AlterNet website here.