The Trump administration reportedly drew up a plan to take over the $600 million subsidy to Greenland and pay Denmark a lump sum to sweeten the deal
Photo: MAGNUS KRISTENSEN/AFP/Getty Images The president’s impromptu plan to buy Greenland reported on last week appeared to be one of those ideas — like substantive health-care reform or bombing Iran — that he lobs out one moment and forgets about the next. Already the scheme seemed like a joke — Greenland is an autonomous country within the kingdom of Denmark — and Danish politicians treated it as such, calling it “an absurd discussion” and “completely ridiculous.
A report from the Washington Post on Tuesday suggests that the Trump administration was also considering the Greenland plan in a somewhat serious fashion, committed enough to develop a rough outline for how the exchange of the world’s biggest island would go down. The Post states that:
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