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PostPosted: 10:34 - 21 Aug 2019    Post subject: Nice country... how much? Reply with quote
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49416740

When I first heard about the Greenland thing I thought "typical Fake News: Trump says something amusing at dinner and it gets passed off as deadly serious by the MSM."

I mean this has to say he's playing for the "Ultimate Troll" title:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECXzFuBXkAc0Dbf.jpg

But cancelling a state visit on a whim? Warm up the rubber room, guys!
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PostPosted: 15:57 - 21 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oil and gas abound, so inb4 'liberating Greenland to save Democracy'.
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PostPosted: 16:08 - 21 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Perhaps it contains the training camp of the ISIS Northern Chapter?
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PostPosted: 16:17 - 21 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Meh, it wouldn't be the first country in the Arctic Circle that has been purchased by the United States.

Before saying that Greenland isn't for sale, Denmark should have asked him to make an offer. Laughing
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PostPosted: 16:40 - 21 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
If he would have bought it, would it have been a US State? curious as Puerto Rico belongs to the USA but isn't a US State *cough full of brown people *cough.
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PostPosted: 16:53 - 21 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
It would be a territory.

I think.
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PostPosted: 18:29 - 21 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Denmark offers to buy the US.

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If Denmark’s bid for the United States is accepted, the Scandinavian nation has ambitious plans for its new acquisition. “We believe that, by giving the U.S. an educational system and national health care, it could be transformed from a vast land mass into a great nation,” the spokesperson said.

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PostPosted: 19:46 - 21 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Buying things is an activity that requires money. The US doesn't have any money.
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PostPosted: 20:56 - 21 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Im-a-Ridah wrote:
Buying things is an activity that requires money. The US doesn't have any money.


Nah, swapsies! Haven't you seen those documentary channel programmes where the guy starts with a Zippo and ends up with a Mustang by the end of the show?

Trump's starting with Alaska rather than a Zippo...
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PostPosted: 21:26 - 21 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Why is nobody talking about the fact that this ‘potential purchase’ was invented *PRECISELY* so he could cancel the trip and not have it compared to the warm welcome Barack Obama⁩ will receive when he visits a couple of weeks later.


Sounds plausible.
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PostPosted: 11:17 - 22 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Apparently it's because instead of politely declining the Danish PM was a bit rude...

Wow, international diplomacy is tricky stuff!
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PostPosted: 11:43 - 22 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:
froth at the mouth.

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PostPosted: 12:03 - 22 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:
That picture of Trump towers at the top of the post was posted by Trump himself in his tweet. Anyone who can't see the clear trolling and tongue in cheek nature of the tweet deserves to froth at the mouth.


How about the follow ups where Trump and the White House confirm he won't be going to Denmark as they won't discuss selling Grennland, is this trolling as well?
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PostPosted: 22:32 - 24 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
How dare they refuse the 'chosen one' Laughing
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PostPosted: 10:04 - 28 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Denmark missed a trick, they should have offered Greenland to Putin. Laughing
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PostPosted: 13:20 - 28 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
I wonder how much he'd give us for Scotland?
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PostPosted: 14:09 - 28 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Let's pay the picts something to take it back.
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PostPosted: 15:07 - 28 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
chickenstrip wrote:
I wonder how much he'd give us for Scotland?


He already has a chunk.

I think we should swapsies The Northern Isles for greenland then start talks to flog off Greenland to Russia.

Do you think Trumph would buy Northern Ireland?
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PostPosted: 15:18 - 28 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ribenapigeon wrote:
He already has a chunk.


That's partly why it occurred to me to sell him the rest. He seems quite fond of the place.

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Do you think Trumph would buy Northern Ireland?


We'd have to pay someone to take it off our hands.


Thinking Except...the EU seem to be interested.
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PostPosted: 16:54 - 28 Aug 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
chickenstrip wrote:


We'd have to pay someone to take it off our hands.


Thinking Except...the EU seem to be interested.


Funny but my dad says the reason he and a lot of people voted for the EU in the early seventies was because there was a belief that would end the troubles. Shocked
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