Trump’s Feelings Were Hurt By Denmark PM’s ‘Very Not Nice’ Response On Greenland

US President Donald Trump mocks former vice president Joe Biden by calling him "sleepy Joe Biden" at a "Keep America Great" campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 15, 2019. (Photo by... US President Donald Trump mocks former vice president Joe Biden by calling him "sleepy Joe Biden" at a "Keep America Great" campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 15, 2019. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Trump made it abundantly clear that he cancelled his trip to Denmark because the “nasty” prime minister wasn’t very nice in response to his offer to purchase Greenland.

“Denmark, I looked forward to going, but I thought that the prime minister’s statement that it was ‘absurd,’ that it was an ‘absurd idea,’ was nasty. I thought it was an inappropriate statement,” he said. “All she had to do is say, ‘no, we wouldn’t be interested.’ We can’t treat the United States of America the way they treated us under President Obama. I thought it was a very not nice way of saying something. They could have told me no.”

Several Danish officials have spoken out against President Trump’s apparent interest in purchasing Greenland, but he seems to be particularly bothered by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s response, that the idea of purchasing the country was “absurd,” a word Trump later called “terrible” and “not a nice statement.”

“She’s blowing off the United States,” he said.

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  1. Avatar for kjpjr kjpjr says:

    Anyone who hurts trump’s feelings is a hero in my book. donnie is just an evil SOB.

  2. Why is Trump Tower decorated in gold when everything the guy touches turns to shit?

  3. And in a further insult to the Jewish people of the world Donald now says HE is the chosen one.

  4. Avatar for matx matx says:

    Pompeo, just quit now–maybe you can run for senate.

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    This whole administration is truly surreal. It’s just weird to hear the President talk like this. Is this all just a glitch in the Matrix? I’m having trouble believing that we’ve really sunk this far down.

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