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Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« on: August 23, 2019, 02:23:57 pm »
Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?

AllahpunditPosted at 10:41 pm on August 22, 2019

“Joke” should be in quotation marks. There isn’t a shadow of a doubt that he would do that deal if it were on the table.

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    Greenland, for one, was not on the staff’s list of priorities for the week. But while Mr. Trump has long derided nation-building, his flirtation with nation-buying turned out to be more serious than many originally thought. He has been talking privately about buying Greenland for more than a year and even detailed the National Security Council staff to study the idea.

    At one point last year, according to a former official who heard him, he even joked in a meeting about trading Puerto Rico for Greenland — happy to rid himself of an American territory whose leadership he has feuded with repeatedly.

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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2019, 02:42:29 pm »
This is hysterical, but also a match made in heaven.  The Puerto Ricans would get cradle to grave welfare, the Danes get a winter colony, and we get a place to send prisoners.
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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2019, 02:44:42 pm »
Now this is an idea I can get behind!
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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2019, 03:56:03 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 23, 2019, 02:44:42 pm
Now this is an idea I can get behind!

I guess this means we'd trade each region's radical seperatists as well but I'm having trouble imagining terroristic eskimos.
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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2019, 05:57:51 pm »
Naw, keep Puerto Rico.
A lot of good baseball players come from there.
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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2019, 06:41:10 pm »



You can’t throw a roll of paper towels as far in the colder, denser air of Greenland.
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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2019, 08:54:36 pm »
Quote from: cato potatoe on August 23, 2019, 02:42:29 pm
This is hysterical, but also a match made in heaven.  The Puerto Ricans would get cradle to grave welfare, the Danes get a winter colony, and we get a place to send prisoners.



Not a bad idea, imho. 
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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2019, 09:01:13 pm »
The man is a genius!  Denmark could turn PR from a shithole to a socialist tourist trap.
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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2019, 09:36:49 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 23, 2019, 02:44:42 pm
Now this is an idea I can get behind!
@Cyber Liberty

It is okay for you and others here to joke about this - but it is not okay for a president to make a foreign country/US possession the object of a joke.  Every word he says means something to the whole world, and action can/may be taken by these countries/possessions based on his words thoughtless tossed around.  Also, languages spoken by foreign countries may not translate this and other "jokes" as a joke but as a reality. 

Cyber, I actually worry about this every time he gets on twitter and starts in on countries, calling them and their leaders toxic names and threatening to do whatever to them.  He must think he can say whatever he wants and no one can act against him as president.  That was true in his business, he said and did whatever he wanted (however, he was always involved in law suits against him).
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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2019, 09:45:02 pm »
Quote from: Victoria33 on August 23, 2019, 09:36:49 pm
Cyber, I actually worry about this every time he gets on twitter and starts in on countries, calling them and their leaders toxic names and threatening to do whatever to them.  He must think he can say whatever he wants and no one can act against him as president.  That was true in his business, he said and did whatever he wanted (however, he was always involved in law suits against him.


It’s one, among many other reasons, why he can’t get the EU to fall in line against Iran.


Europe Has Dug In Against Trump’s Iran ‘Maximum Pressure’ Campaign

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/europe-dug-against-trump-iran-080002594.html
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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2019, 09:45:53 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on August 23, 2019, 09:01:13 pm
The man is a genius!  Denmark could turn PR from a shithole to a socialist tourist trap.

I love it!   Puerto Rico becomes 'Cuba II' - European (Danish) brand of Socialism

So long as they leave the kids playing beisbol alone.  Don't mess with the crops.
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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2019, 12:27:25 am »
Quote from: edpc on August 23, 2019, 09:45:02 pm

It’s one, among many other reasons, why he can’t get the EU to fall in line against Iran.


Europe Has Dug In Against Trump’s Iran ‘Maximum Pressure’ Campaign

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/europe-dug-against-trump-iran-080002594.html

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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2019, 02:37:14 am »
Can we trade Trump?
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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2019, 02:54:40 am »
Once again, I think Mr. Trump is actually takin' the advice I give him to heart:
See this post:
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,372505.msg2036917.html#msg2036917
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Re: Trump joked to aides: What if we trade Puerto Rico for Greenland?
« Reply #15 on: August 24, 2019, 03:19:42 am »
Quote from: Fishrrman on August 24, 2019, 02:54:40 am
Once again, I think Mr. Trump is actually takin' the advice I give him to heart:
See this post:
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,372505.msg2036917.html#msg2036917

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