In Greenland, tease and reject the idea of ​​Trump to buy the island

COPENHAGEN.- Danish politicians today mock the idea of ​​selling Greenland to the United States after learning that the president

Donald Trump

He had privately discussed with his advisers the possibility of buying the largest island in the world.

Trump will travel to Copenhagen next September and the Arctic theme will be on the agenda of meetings with the prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark's autonomous territory.

"It must be an April fish joke – it's a completely wrong date," said former Lars Lokke Rasmussen on Twitter.

The idea of ​​buying the territory has been joked by some councilors, but has been seriously considered by others in the White House, said two sources close to the case. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the purchase of Greenland.

"We are open to trade, but we are not for sale," Greenland Foreign Minister Ane Lone Bagger told Reuters.

"Yes really [Trump] He is considering this possibility, so it's the definitive proof that he's gone crazy, "spokesman for the Danish People's Party for Foreign Affairs Soren Espersen told DR.

"The idea that

Denmark

Selling 57,000 citizens in the United States is completely ridiculous. "

The Greenland MEP Aaja Chemnitz Larsen, one of the two representatives of the territory in the Danish Parliament, also rejected this idea. "No, thank you" to the idea that Trump buys Greenland, "he wrote on Twitter.

Although it belongs to Denmark, Greenland has a broad autonomy regime, granted for the first time in 1979 and then extended in 2009, after a consultation in which three out of four Greenlanders recognized that their country had more powers and the right to self-determination. Since then, Greenlandic has become the official language, although Queen Margarita remains the head of state of a territory which, unlike the rest of Denmark, does not belong to the European Union after having left it. 1985.

Reuters Agency