{"id":38549,"date":"2019-08-21T03:01:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T03:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38549"},"modified":"2019-08-21T03:01:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T03:01:16","slug":"danes-wont-give-up-greenland-why-i-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38549","title":{"rendered":"Danes won&#8217;t give up Greenland? Why, I never &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Greenland%20%23POTUS%20%23Denmark%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1200px-Qaqortoq2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38550\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1200px-Qaqortoq2008-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1200px-Qaqortoq2008-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1200px-Qaqortoq2008-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1200px-Qaqortoq2008-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/1200px-Qaqortoq2008.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump wants to purchase Greenland, the monstrous Arctic territorial island that belongs to Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>My question is this: With what? How much money? Surely the president doesn&#8217;t think he can plunk down, oh, <em>$7 million<\/em> \u2026 the amount of money President Andrew Johnson paid in 1867 for Alaska in that purchase from the Russians. They called it &#8220;Seward&#8217;s Folly,&#8221; in &#8220;honor&#8221; of then Secretary of State William Seward, who negotiated the deal with the czar; it turned out to be a damn good investment.<\/p>\n<p>Trump decided he would postpone a planned visit to Denmark after that country&#8217;s prime minister balked at the notion of selling Greenland to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is trying to wheel-deal a real estate transaction the way he did when he just a commercial real estate mogul.<\/p>\n<p>Good grief, dude. Get real.<\/p>\n<p>The idiocy that comes from Donald Trump continues to astound many of us. Not those who hang on to his every ridiculous utterance, though. They&#8217;ll just need to explain to the rest of us how it is that their man, Trump, is <em>not<\/em> embarrassing the nation he was elected to govern.<\/p>\n<p>Must I remind them that Donald Trump&#8217;s business credentials aren&#8217;t nearly as shiny and spiffy as he portrayed them while running for president? There. I just did.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Greenland%20%23POTUS%20%23Denmark%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump wants to purchase Greenland, the monstrous Arctic territorial island that belongs to Denmark. My question is this: With what? How much money? 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