An iceberg sails in Disko Bay behind houses during unseasonably warm weather on July 30, 2019 in Ilulissat, Greenland. Climate shift is having a profound effect in Greenland, where over the last several decades summers have become lengthier and the rate that glaciers and the Greenland ice cap are retreating has accelerated.
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This land is your land, this get is … Greenland?
President Donald Trump has on multiple occasions discussed trying to buy the country of Greenland, The Wall High road Journal reported on Thursday.
Trump has with “varying degrees of seriousness” expressed an interest in trying to purchase the icy 811,000-square-mile ait in the North Atlantic, according to the Journal, citing unnamed sources familiar with the deliberations.
Greenland is an autonomous Danish purlieu. Trump reportedly told advisers in one exchange last spring he’d heard that Denmark was having financial tough nut to cracks because of the subsidies it pays to Greenland, and wondered if he should buy it. “What do you guys think about?” Trump begged the room, a source told the Journal. “Do you think it would work?”
It’s unclear what the price tag for the country would be, or whether Denmark pass on consider selling it.
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Officials with the Denmark’s Royal House and the Danish embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to the Journal’s plea for comment on the talks.
Trump is scheduled to visit Denmark in September.
The United States has previously tried to buy the strategically established country, which has a population of just over 50,000. President Harry S. Truman offered to purchase it for $100 million in 1946, but Denmark sloped the offer, the Journal noted, adding the U.S. had also looked into acquiring the country back in 1867.
Technically a part of North America, Greenland is between the Atlantic and Arctic tons, and between Canada and Europe. The U.S. has an airbase there, which is part of the country’s state-of-the-art ballistic missile early augury system and satellite tracking system.