President Donald Trump announced that his trip to Denmark is on hold

News24xx.com -  President Donald Trump has announced that his upcoming trip to Denmark is on hold because its prime minister is not interested in selling Greenland to the United States.

Trump posted on social media on Tuesday that "based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time."

"Denmark is a very special country with incredible people," he added.

White House spokesman Judd Deere says Trump's visit to Denmark has been canceled.

Earlier, the US president also ridiculed Greenland, posting on social media a doctored image of the island with a Trump tower.

Trump recently floated the idea of buying the island but said as recently as Sunday it was not a priority.

Denmark had called the idea "absurd."

As information, In 1946, the US proposed to pay Denmark $100m to buy Greenland after flirting with the idea of swapping land in Alaska for strategic parts of the Arctic island.

Under a 1951 deal, Denmark allowed the US to build bases and radar stations on Greenland.

The US Air Force currently maintains one base in northern Greenland, Thule Air Force Base, some 1,200km south of the North Pole. Former military airfields in Narsarsuaq, Kulusuk and Kangerlussuaq have become civilian airports.

The Thule base, constructed in 1952, was originally designed as a refuelling stop for long-range bombing missions.

It has been a ballistic missile early warning and space surveillance site since 1961.

 

 

 

 

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