Donald Trumps proposal to purchase Greenland has caused a political tempest in Denmark, prompting Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to hold emergency meetings and leave officials scrambling for clarity. Insiders report that a tense phone call sparked confusion and upended the nations usual stability.
An insider in the foreign country said that with a single phone call, Donald Trump plunged a "unswerving American ally" into "complete flux."
Trump allegedly spoke with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen recently, bringing to a head his proposals pertaining to the attempted acquisition of Greenland.
Anne Applebaum, who is a senior fellow at the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and a staff writer at The Atlantic, had a front-row seat to the findings because she co-leads a project on disinformation in the modern era.
"What did Donald Trump say over the phone to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, on Wednesday? I don't know which precise words he used, but I witnessed their impact. I arrived in Copenhagen the day after the call-the subject, of course, was the future of Greenland, which Denmark owns and which Trump wants-and discovered that appointments I had with Danish politicians were suddenly in danger of being canceled," the writer reported. "Amid Frederiksen's emergency meeting with business leaders, her foreign minister's emergency meeting with party leaders, and an additional emergency meeting of the foreign-affairs committee in Parliament, everything, all of a sudden, was in complete flux."
Applebaum continued by saying that the "result" was that she was standing on the Knippel Bridge, which is between the Danish Parliament and the foreign ministry, in the middle of the morning, with a phone in her hand, waiting to be told which way to walk.
She recounts how chilly it is in Denmark in January and how she waited outside the parliament. Regardless, the meeting was postponed. Further, she elaborated by stating that following that, no one was willing to speak on the record.
In addition, she brings up the fact that the word "rough" was used most often in private conversations to characterize the Trump phone call, The Raw Story shares.
"Threaten" was the most common verb. "I don't understand" was the most common response. Trump has shown Frederiksen that he takes Greenland seriously; he apparently views it as a real estate transaction. Greenland, however, does not have any beachfront property, according to the report.
As a Danish autonomous territory, the biggest island in the world is home to Danes who are eligible to vote in Danish elections and who have a voice in Danish parliament. Like the United States, Denmark has its political system, and unlike the president of the United States, the prime minister of Denmark cannot sell Greenland.
