US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday on Twitter postpone his scheduled meeting with Mette Frederiks in early September because of the lack of interest of the Danish Prime Minister in a possible US purchase of Greenland, Danish territory.
The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct. I thank you for looking forward to rescheduling sometime in the future!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2019After "comments from Mette Frederiksen, (saying) that she had no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will postpone our scheduled meeting in two weeks to another time," launched in a message on Twitter, the tenant of the White House. "The Prime Minister has been able to save money and effort for the United States and Denmark by being so direct, and I thank her for that and look forward to rescheduling at some point in the future." our meeting, continued Donald Trump. This is the second night in a row that the Republican leader mentions on Twitter the question of the purchase of Greenland.
Moments after these two tweets, a White House spokesman said the US president's visit to Denmark scheduled for early September had simply "been canceled at this point." Donald Trump was to travel to Poland and then to Denmark.
Real interest in a purchase from Greenland
Late last week, the American press revealed that Donald Trump had inquired about the possibility for the United States to buy Greenland, a huge territory with some 56,000 inhabitants. The former real estate mogul confirmed last weekend his interest in such a transaction, calling it before the press of "big real estate transaction", which would be "strategically interesting".
But the Danish authorities have not tasted this statement of the former New York businessman. "Greenland is rich in precious resources (...) We are ready to do business, not to sell" the territory, reacted Friday the Greenlandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs.