“He Has Made Us a Laughing Stock”: Greenland Debacle Stuns Diplomats

Trump had been flirting with the idea for weeks and had even discussed taking over Denmark’s annual $600 million subsidy to Greenland in perpetuity, and possibly tossing in an additional large payment to sweeten the deal.

“It is truly bizarre. On one level I am surprised that he even knows Greenland exists and beyond that, that he knows it belongs to Denmark,” a former high-ranking State Department official told me. This person, who was involved in the Thule negotiations, continued, “My biggest takeaway is how tough the Greenlanders were in insisting on their rights and to a great degree independence from Denmark, NATO and the [United States Government].

But the episode has also been clarifying. In many ways, Trump’s spat with Denmark embodies what the “America First” doctrine really is. “It is an illustration of how diplomacy has been completely siloed into Trump,” Bruen said. “Someone gets in the president’s head or maybe he just looked at a map, saw Greenland and thought, Why don’t we own it? And nobody bothered to say, Mr. President, it’s not ours to own.”The deeper concern, diplomats say, is the lasting impact on U.S. foreign policy.

sunnysingh_n6 Yup, a laughing stock is right

“Diplomats” are the last to know. 🤷🏻‍♂️

No Trump hasn’t made u a laughing stock the fake news media and late nite tv are the ones who have disrespected the President from the beginning and are makin a mockery of trumps presidency ! It’s disgusting the media and late nite bafoons need to be taken down with there hate

johnsweeneyroar johnsweeneyretweeted The BBC do like quotes from ‘formers’.

Jeni4clare The only question the world has for America is “How low can Donald Trump drag you and when will your politicians finally do there jobs by removing him from office?”

This past week he’s fallen into complete insanity. Clinical.

GOP senjudiciary senatemajldr Are there any FreeMarket Republicans left MeghanMcCain MittRomney (I know you know we need a leader for country NOT party who believes in God & law & science & decency) Enough 25thAmendment

RSevinson Black Panther is a David Louis Whitehead copyright claim. Avengers Infinity War is Black Panther: vibranium vs diamond vs Fort Knox gold, latter stemming from Batman Blackman script. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$! Pay up!

Trump enabled by Chuck and Nancy.

Scaramucci is on the case!

It’s refreshing to watch realDonaldTrump kick Washington DC in the nuts. And throughly aggravating the way he berates allies. But pissing Greenland off is pure comedic genius.

Trump claims to be the chosen one. He has gone beyond being a joke. He is downright dangerous. He believes his own schtick.

Fuck our reputation, we need to save the world from this monster.

Actually, he (Trump) hasn’t... He looks at America and the world with a businessmans’ eye, not a politicians’... And the sooner people realize this and “get it”, the better off we Americans will be. And, oh by the way, he’s going to win re-election by a landslide...as he should

You all must enjoy it! You let him get away with it all the time.

Her statement confirms we in America are not the only ones seeing this dystopian nightmare unfolding😿

msnbc cnn cnnbrk MSNBC_Breaking Morning_Joe Trump: 'Once I buy Greenland I will have over 50 thousand new FOLLOWERS who will pledge their LOYALTY to the CHOSEN One. I'll rename them GREENIES. They're INUIT which I guess is a kind of ESKIMO. We've got enough ESKIMOS already.'

We're the ONLY country laughing. Every other country think the USA is the biggest joke on the planet!.that our vaunted 'exceptionalism' is a crock of sh*t! Ordinary citizens are ASHAMED to say we are Americans.Thanks for NOTHING SpeakrPelosi! IMPEACH thedemocrats jerrynadler

I mean he makes himself look like a bigger laughing stock

C’mon...nobody is stunned by anything the lunatic does at this point.

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