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  17. Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Danish Prime Minister Mette
    Frederiksen of being ‘nasty’ when she said his plan to
    buy Greenland was ‘absurd.’

    The president told reporters on the South lawn her statement on the matter ‘was nasty’ during a 35-minute, free wheeling exchange that included his thoughts on gun background checks, Israel, the New York Times, China and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    His remarks came after Frederiksen said earlier Wednesday she was ‘surprised’
    at Trump’s decision to cancel his two-day visit. But her initial reaction on Monday – after the president publicly confirmed his interest in buying Greenland – was to call
    it ‘absurd.’

    Frederiksen was in Greenland on Monday to visit her counter part
    there when she said any talk of a sale was ‘an absurd discussion.’ 

    Trump showed his anger at her use of the word.  

    ‘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.

    All she had to do is say no, we wouldn’t be interested,’
    he said.

    He repeatedly went back to her word ‘absurd’ when asked about American-Danish relations
    after officials refused to consider his offer to buy the world’s
    largest island – and complained Frederiksen could not treat the U.S.
    that way.  

    ‘She shouldn’t treat the United States that way. She said absurd.
    That’s not the right word to use. Absurd,’ he said of Frederiksen’s reaction to but Greenland, which is
    an autonomous Danish territory. 

    ‘I thought it was an inappropriate statement. All she had to do is say no, we wouldn’t be interested,’
    he added.

    ‘I thought it was a very not nice way of saying something. They
    could have told me no,’ he said. ‘All they had to do is say, no, we would
    rather not do that or we would rather not talk about it.
    Don’t say what an absurd idea that is.’ 

    He accused her of insulting the United States
    with her response. 

    ‘She’s not talking to me,’ he said of Frederiksen. ‘She’s talking to the United States of America.
    You don’t talk to the United States that way.
    At least under me.’ 

    ‘I thought it was not a nice statement – the way she blew me
    off,’ he added later. ‘We’ve done a lot for Denmark.’

    Donald Trump accused the Danish prime minister of being ‘nasty’ when she said his plan to buy Greenland
    was ‘absurd’

    Trump originally said Greenland was not the reason for his trip to Denmark

    Trump also said he was not looking at purchasing land from
    other countries.

    ‘No,’ he said in response to a question from Dailymail.com.
    ‘Greenland was just an idea. Just a thought. But I think when they say it
    was absurd and it was said in a very nasty, very
    sarcastic way, I said we’ll make it some other time.’

    ‘I love Denmark. I’ve been to Denmark and, frankly, we’ll do it another
    time,’ he added. ‘Respect has to be shown to the United States.’ 

    He also noted he was not the first president to bring up the idea of
    buying Greenland.

    ‘The prime minister used a terrible word when talking about something we’ve been talking about for years,’ he said. 

    ‘This is something that has been discussed for many years.
    Harry Truman had the idea of Greenland. I had the idea.
    Other people have had the idea. It goes back into the early 1900s.

    But Harry Truman very strongly thought it was a good idea.

    I think it is a good idea because Denmark is losing $700 million a year with it.
    It doesn’t do them any good,’ he noted. 

    Additionally, Republican Senator Tom Cotton of
    Arkansas, a close Trump ally on Capitol Hill, also is interested in purchasing Greenland.

    Cotton raised the idea in August 2018 when Danish Ambassador Lone Dencker Wisborg dropped by his Senate
    office, The Atlantic reported. Cotton also discussed
    the idea with Trump – although no time frame was given for
    when that conversation took place. 

    After his angry rant at Frederiksen, Trump then took to Twitter to complain Denmark is not paying enough in its NATO fees.

    Trump complained of the Danish prime minister’s calling his idea
    ‘absurd’ and said Frederiksen could not treat the U.S.

    that way

    ‘For the record, Denmark is only at 1.35% of GDP for NATO spending.
    They are a wealthy country and should be at 2%.
    We protect Europe and yet, only 8 of the 28 NATO countries are at the 2% mark.
    The United States is at a much, much higher level than that,’ he wrote.

    ‘Because of me, these countries have agreed to pay ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS more – but still way short of
    what they should pay for the incredible military
    protection provided. Sorry!,’ he added.

    Denmark agreed to raise its NATO contribution to 1.5 percent of its
    gross domestic product in 2023, up from 1.35 percent it will pay this
    year, Danish officials said in January. 

    Trump’s cancelation comes as Barack Obama has made his own plans
    to visit Denmark.

    The former president will be at the Musikkens Hus (Music House) in the northern city Aalborg on September 28 for ‘A Conversation with President Barack Obama.’ The invitation-only event will be
    for business leaders but will also include around two hundred students from Aalborg
    University, Ritzau, a Danish news site. 

    The president has been vocal about his interest in obtaining Greenland but Frederiksen slammed his scouting efforts as ‘absurd’, saying the
    semi-autonomous island is not for sale. 

    The Danish prime minister also said she was ‘disappointed and
    surprised’ by Trump’s decision to cancel his upcoming state visit.

    Snubbed in his purchase offer, Trump, a former real estate tycoon, decided
    to postpone his meeting with Frederiksen, which was scheduled to take place in two weeks, in a dramatic last-minute decision announced on Twitter
    Tuesday night. 

    Queen Margrethe II and the royal household on Wednesday expressed
    surprise at the sudden cancellation, while other prominent Danish politicians described it as ‘deeply insulting’. 

    Donald Trump has cancelled his upcoming meeting with Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen because she refuses to talk about
    potentially selling Greenland

    Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen giving a statement Wednesday on President
    Trump’s cancellation of his state visit in Copenhagen

    Queen Margrethe II (pictured) and the Danish royal family were
    ‘surprised’ at Trump’s sudden cancellation of his state visit

    Helle Thorning-Schmidt, a former Danish Prime Minister, wrote on Twitter that Trump’s cancellation was ‘deeply insulting’

    President Barack Obama, seen in Germany in April, will
    be in Denmark on September 28 to speak to business leaders and
    students

    Trump’s visit was originally seen as a thank you to the small northern European nation, which is a member of NATO and has supported the U.S.
    military missions in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.

    The country has seen 43 Danish troops members killed in those
    U.S.-led missions, which is a large number for a country of 5.5
    million not used to participating in battle.

    His cancellation has now sparked worries of a diplomatic row but Frederiksen argued it would not harm
    relations between Copenhagen and Washington. 

    Frederiksen, who took office two months ago as Denmark’s second female head
    of government and the leader of the left-leaning Social Democratic Party, said relations between Copenhagen and Washington ‘are not in any crisis in my opinion’ after Trump canceled
    his plans to visit Denmark following her rejection of the
    sale.

    ‘I don’t believe that the cancellation should have any influence on other matters,’ she said. 

    She also confirmed Wednesday that ‘a discussion about a
    potential sale of Greenland has been put forward.’

    But she noted: ‘It has been rejected by Greenland
    Premier Kim Kielsen, and I fully stand behind that rejection’. 

    The prime minister said she was ‘disappointed and surprised’ by Trump’s decision to cancel his two-day
    stop in her country. 

    But she told reporters that ‘the invitation for a stronger strategic cooperation with the Americans in the Arctic
    is still open’.

    Former Danish government ministers were quick to
    speak out, with ex-foreign minister and head of the foreign affairs committee in parliament, Martin Lidegaard, telling Trump to ‘please stop’.

    He added to Danish broadcaster TV2 that it was ‘a diplomatic farce’ and added
    that Trump’s behavior was ‘grotesque’ and he was ‘throwing a hissy fit’.

    Helle Thorning-Schmidt, a former Danish Prime Minister, wrote on Twitter that Trump’s
    cancellation was ‘deeply insulting to the people of Greenland and
    Denmark’.

    The 811,000-square-mile island of icy terrain in the Atlantic inhabits about 56,000 people, and though it
    is technically in North American waters, the
    self-governing land is culturally European

    Greenland premier Kim Kielsen rejected a tentative US bid to buy the island.
    Pictured is the town of Kulusuk in Greenland

    Trump tweeted Tuesday evening that he would postpone the meeting, originally scheduled during his September
    2 and 3 state visit, ‘for another time’ because Frederiksen said
    Greenland was not for sale

    While another ex-finance minister, Kristian Jensen, went further describing it as ‘total chaos’ and adding:
    ‘This has gone from a great opportunity for a strengthened dialogue
    between allies to a diplomatic crisis.’

    Lene Balleby, head of communications for the Danish
    royal family, said: ‘It [the cancellation] was a surprise – we have nothing more to say about this case.’

    Frederiksen noted that preparations for the September 2 and 3 visit were ‘well underway’. 

    ‘It is with regret and surprise that I received
    the news that President Trump has cancelled his state visit to Denmark on the second and third of September,’ she said. 

    ‘I had been looking forward to the visit, our preparations were well underway.
    It was an opportunity, I think, to celebrate Denmark’s close relationship
    to the US – who remains one of Denmark’s closest allies. 

    ‘I was looking forward to having a dialogue on the
    many shared interests we have with the US. 

    ‘Furthermore the development in the Arctic region called for further co-operation between the US, Greenland, the Faroe
    Islands and Denmark. And therefore I would like
    to underline our invitation for a stronger co-operation on Arctic
    affairs still stands. 

    Trump was prepared to take over Denmark’s annual $600 million subsidy to Greenland in perpetuity before he canceled his visit. 

    The president also had discussed giving Denmark a large one-time payment as well to help move the
    transaction along, senior administration officials told The Washington Post.  

    Greenland handles its own domestic affairs but Denmark
    covers its national security and foreign relations. The Danes also pay for 50 percent
    of the island’s budget in direct subsidies with additional spending
    on defense. 

    In total, Denmark spends about $740 million annually on Greenland. 

    The US embassy in Copenhagen after President Trump postponed a
    planned visit to Denmark

    The Helheim glacier in Greenland. President Trump
    announced his decision to postpone an early September visit to Denmark by tweet

    A boat navigating at night next to icebergs in eastern Greenland, the world’s biggest island, earlier this month

    Frederiksen pointed out Greenland officials rejected the idea – a move she supported.

    ‘A discussion however has been raised about a potential sale of Greenland.
    This has clearly been rejected by Kim Kielsen, a position that I share of course,’ she said.

    ‘This does not change the character of our good relations
    and we will, of course, from Denmark continue an ongoing dialogue with the
    US on how we can develop our co-operation and deal with the many common challenges we are facing.’  

    Trump was invited by Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II for a
    state visit in Copenhagen in early September, which would have followed
    a stop in Warsaw, Poland, where the president will
    take part in a series of ceremonies in honor of the 80th anniversary of the start
    of World War II.

    First lady Melania Trump was to have accompanied him and dinner with the
    Queen was on the agenda.  

    The president initially claimed the visit wouldn’t be about a Greenland purchase, his sudden cancellation has cast doubts on the intentions of his trip.  

    A senior official told DailyMail.com last week that Trump was visiting Denmark because
    he was invited and not to purchase Greenland. 

    The senior official said that reports on Trump’s interest in buying the property
    were being ‘overblown,’ and the president was not entirely serious
    pursuing the sale. 

    However, Trump’s tweets challenged that.  

    ‘Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based
    on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing
    the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time….’ the president wrote on Twitter Tuesday night.

    ‘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 her for that and look forward
    to rescheduling sometime in the future!’ he added,
    digging at Frederiksen for spurning his interest in buying the island.  

    President Donald Trump has likened buying Greenland to ‘a
    large real estate deal’ after confirming interest in purchasing the world’s largest island from Denmark.
    It comes after Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Greenland was
    not for sale and the idea of selling it to the U.S. was absurd on Sunday

    His cancellation came just three hours after the US ambassador to Denmark tweeted: ‘Denmark is ready for the POTUS @realDonaldTrump visit!
    Partner, ally, friend’ sharing a picture of a billboard emblazoned with Trump’s name

    “Greenland is not for sale”: Denmark Prime Minister
    Mette Frederiksen reacts to Pres. Trump’s idea of buying the semi-autonomous Danish territory of
    Greenland.

    “Thankfully, the time where you buy and sell other countries and populations is over,” she
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    — ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 19, 2019

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