It's hard to keep track of all of Trump's failures and humiliations. Of course, his cult-like following doesn't see it that way. For them, everything Trump does is a brilliant move on a 3D chess board. Trump's opponents simply aren't smart enough to understand Trump's grand strategy, or so they tell themselves. Meanwhile, in reality, the world is increasingly shocked and disturbed by the depths of Trump's narcissism and ignorance.“HE HAS MADE US A LAUGHING STOCK”: DIPLOMATS STUNNED BY TRUMP’S FEUD WITH DENMARK
LINK: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019...al-type=earned
“Sometimes it is hard to believe that what Trump is saying and doing on the world stage is actually happening,” said the former ambassador to NATO. “This is one of those days.”
BY ABIGAIL TRACY | AUGUST 21, 2019
Donald Trump’s preposterous fixation with buying Greenland, initially treated as a distraction by American media and a joke by the Danish government, became less amusing Tuesday night when the president declared that he would be canceling his planned diplomatic trip to Denmark in retaliation. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had told the White House, that Greenland, an autonomous territory in the Arctic, wasn’t Denmark’s to sell.
“Sometimes it is hard to believe that what Trump is saying and doing on the world stage is actually happening,” said Nicholas Burns, the former U.S. ambassador to NATO. “This is one of those days.” Denmark, after all, is a key partner in the North Atlantic alliance, and was among the first countries to pledge military support in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 40 Danish troops died in Helmand province, fighting alongside American and British soldiers.
“I realize this is yet another bizarre and humorous Trump moment for the late night talk shows here in the U.S.,” Burns told me. “But, for the rest of the world, particularly our allies, it is simply shocking how far America has fallen from grace in their eyes.”
...That Denmark has no interest in cutting such a deal shouldn’t have come as a surprise to the White House. For one, the idea makes little sense from a logistical perspective. “Denmark can’t sell it because it is a protectorate.... it is not even up to them,” explained Brett Bruen, a former Foreign Service Officer. The U.S. already leases land in Greenland to support the Thule Air Base. And Greenlanders—all 56,000 or so of them—would presumably see little reason to exchange their current head of state for a man who couldn’t find Greenland on a map...
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