How a Pedofile Derailed Trump’s ‘Greenland Purchase’
The trial balloon that blew up in the face of Denmark

Several months ago Queen Margrethe II invited President Trump to Denmark for a state visit. Shortly afterward Denmark’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anders Samuelsen, discreetly floated a possible ‘Greenland Purchase’ to the United States during negotiations for the state visit. Anders has always been a close ally of President Trump, agreeing to send Danish special forces to Syria and Afghanistan to help Trump’s administration fight Islamic extremists. Unfortunately for both countries, the Prime Minister and his cabinet (including Anders) were ousted from power last month by the Social Democrats derailing any sort of opportunity for President and the former Prime Minister to consummate a sale. The ‘Greenland Purchase’ would have been beneficial to both countries. The United States would have gained access to huge deposits of rare earth minerals and Denmark would have been relieved of almost a billion dollars in support they spend each year on the 65,000 residents.
In preparation for the ‘Greenland Purchase’ discussions planned for the the state visit, the Danish invited the U.S. Ambassador to Greenland, Carla Sands, and the U.S. Geological Survey to visit a remote rare earth mining facility operated by Greenland Minerals. Rare earth minerals are a HUGE sticking point in our trade discussions with China. The Danish realized that if the U.S. could find an alternative supply our ability to negotiate would be significantly improved and make a deal far easier to consumate. President Trump similarly realized that the ‘Greenland Purchase’ would significantly improve his ability to negotiate with the Chinese.
Last month the new Social Democrat Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jeppe Sebastian Kofod, contacted the U.S. State Department and informed us that discussions regarding the ‘Greenland Purchase’ were being cancelled. Once President Trump received a briefing on the new minister, a Harvard graduate, and his background he made it clear he wasn’t interested spending a minute trying resume the negotiations to purchase Greenland. Kofod is infamous in Denmark for having a sexual relationship with a 15 year old girl while a member of parliament in 2008. He admitted to the relationship and apologized but kept his seat in parliament. The fact that the people of Denmark and Greenland are being led by a pedofile is the primary, but not only, reason President Trump called off the visit.
The new Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, made it very easy for President Trump when she suggested that Trump’s ‘offer’ to buy Greenland was “absurd.” Frederiksen was well aware of Ander’s trial balloon to sell Greenland, but decided to pretend that Trump was somehow insane or unhinged by making such an outlandish unsolicited offer. President Trump, in response, suggested that her statements were offensive felt justified in postponing the state visit for another time. The truth is that the new Danish leadership, unlike their predecessors from a month earlier, aren’t interested in selling Greenland. Trump suggested that he would have accepted a simple “no” but he wasn’t interested in dealing with either rude people or pedofiles.
Of course, this isn’t the first time the United States and Denmark have discussed the possible sale of the world’s largest island. Back in the 1860s President Andrew Johnson considered buying Greenland on the heels of his purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Secretary of State William Seward tasked Benjamin Pierce, a mining expert, with assessing the island. Ultimately that deal fell through but eventually the United States did succeed in purchasing the Danish West Indies (we call them the U.S. Virgin Islands today). Eighty years later President Truman offered Denmark $4.2 billion in gold ($100M at the time) in exchange for Greenland.
The reality is that the ‘Greenland Purchase’ was a trial balloon floated by the previous government of Denmark. The new Danish government made it clear to the State Department that the deal was off the table and as a result Trump cancelled the state visit. The fact that Trump refrained from mentioning that the new Minister of Foreign Affairs was a pedofile was pretty heroic. We’re seeing real growth from the president…

