Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen demand respect for borders after US appoints Greenland envoy

Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen demand respect for borders after US appoints Greenland envoy

The prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland have demanded respect for their borders after Donald Trump appointed a special envoy to the largely self-governing Danish territory, which he has repeatedly said should be under US control.

“We have said it very clearly before. Now we say it again: you cannot annex other countries,” Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in a joint statement on Monday, adding that “fundamental principles” were at stake.

“Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders, and the US should not take over Greenland,” the two leaders said. “We expect respect for our common territorial integrity.”

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    712·
    2 days ago

    They must have missed the meeting where instructions on manipulating Trump were passed out. You never say “you can’t do that” because he’s a contrarian narcissist, and so now whether he does it or not, he definitely is more motivated to do it.

    No, you invite him to visit or send an envoy to the White House (or even better, Mar-a-Lago), and make sure they give him a gold plated statue that says “best boy,” with enough filigree to cause eye cancer, put it on a oversized Corinthian base, and tell him it’s a monument to the special relationship your countries share. Now he’ll go back to destroying the US from within (lucky us Americans!) and leave you alone.

    • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      Nah man, fuck Trump, don’t cater to his desires.

      I hope more and more people start treating him like the moron he is.

    • Ininewcrow@piefed.caEnglish
      20·
      2 days ago

      Make the first ever Greenland Honorary Peace Prize, then make a medal that is heavy on a fancy ribbon and invite Mango Mussolini to the ceremony, which will be held at a five star hotel in Montreal, to receive his prize.

      It’s cheaper to hold the ceremony in another country and just send delegates … and make the medal solid steel plated with a bit of gold. Make sure to engrave a picture of the Cheeto in Chief on the medal.

    • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      They already went through all that though. He has shown pretty persistent in this, most likely because some people around him keep pushing the issue to him.