• Wall Street Journal: President Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland from Denmark

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August 16, 2019Nothing to do for Donald Trump, "Greenland is not for sale". Thus the local government of the Danish island responded to the proposal of the American president to purchase the territory. CNN reports this. The former Danish premier, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, joked on Twitter: "It must be an April Fool, but totally out of time".

It must be an April Fool's Day joke ... but totally out of sesson! https://t.co/ev5DDVZc5f

- Lars Løkke Rasmussen (@larsloekke) August 15, 2019
"We are still open to business", adds the Danish government with a tweet from the Copenhagen foreign ministry, in what some people read as an opening towards possible investments by the United States in Greenland, especially on the tourism front.

It was The Wall Street Journal who wrote of Trump's intention to buy the largest island in the world by making an offer to Denmark to buy the huge territory between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Circle, with its 56 thousand inhabitants and the layer of ice that is melting due to global warming.

President Trump made his name on the world's most famous island. Now he wants to buy the world's biggest. https://t.co/GSOXri7lj3

- The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 15, 2019
Thanks to a treaty between the United States and Denmark, Greenland, which is technically part of North America, is already under American influence: here is the northernmost US military base, Thule Air Base, just 1,200 kilometers away from the polar circle. After the Second World War, President Harry Truman, in 1946, offered Denmark 100 million dollars, but the proposal was rejected.

The irony on the initiative is immediate: some suggest Trump to buy Greenland and then build his own presidential library, such as Democratic deputy Steve Cohen, and who updated the acronym of his Maga electoral slogan (make American great again) in "Make American Greenland already" (make Greenland finally American).