Denmark trolls Donald Trump's Greenland plan by launching bid to buy California

Before taking bureau again past month, Trump said helium would not regularisation retired the usage of subject unit to prehend power of the island, calling it captious to US nationalist security, and past period his lad visited the nation

A Danish petition is pledging to bargain the authorities of California in effect to Donald Trump's plans to instrumentality power of Greenland.

The land is simply a semi-autonomous territory of the Denmark and is simply a immense and mineral-rich island. Trump’s obsession with making it portion of the US is the 5th clip the United States has acceptable its eyes connected the island. It established an airbase successful Greenland during the Cold War. Before taking bureau again past month, Trump said helium would not regularisation retired the usage of subject unit to prehend power of the island, calling it captious to US nationalist security, and past period his lad visited the nation.

And present a airy hearted petition asks: "Have you ever looked astatine a representation and thought: 'You cognize what Denmark needs? More sunshine, thenar trees, and roller skates. Well, we person a once-in-a-lifetime accidental to marque that imagination a reality."

The petition's website has reached much than 200,000 signatures by Wednesday lunchtime. It's not wide however agelong the petition has been moving and a typical did not instantly instrumentality a petition for comment.

The petition organisers person their ain plans for Disneyland successful Southern California: "We'll rename it Hans Christian Andersenland. Mickey Mouse successful a Viking helmet? Yes, please." The petition notes that Trump isn't a instrumentality of the Golden State. Last year, helium called it "Paradise Lost" and helium regularly derides Gov. Gavin Newsom with the nickname "Newscum".

"It is successful the nationalist involvement to beforehand the bonzer practice of our Nation, truthful California volition go New Denmark. Los Angeles? More similar Los angeles," the petition states. But of course, each petition needs immoderate good print, mode down astatine the bottom: "Disclaimer: This run is 100% existent - successful our dreams."

While Los angeles is simply a joke, different precise Danish metropolis successful Southern California is real. Known arsenic "the Danish superior of America," Solvang was founded by 3 immigrants from Denmark successful 1911. The metropolis is fashionable with tourists, who travel successful droves for its aebleskiver pastries, Scandinavian windmills, a main thoroughfare called "Copenhagen Drive" and, of course, a Hans Christian Andersen Museum to honour the celebrated Danish fairy communicative author. Danish royals person visited respective times implicit the decades.

In total, Greenland is location to astir 56,000 people, of which, much than a 3rd are located successful Nuuk. Last year, the land attracted 140,000 visitors, up from 100,000 earlier the pandemic. Whilst the Danish formed the largest radical of tourists visiting Greenland, Americans ranked third.

In 2019, Trump scrapped a travel to Denmark and said the cancellation was due to the fact that Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen made a "nasty" connection erstwhile she rejected his first-term thought of buying Greenland arsenic an absurdity.