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A Danish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) dragged the President of the United States donald trump amid his bid to sell or cede Greenland to the United States.
MEP Anders Vistisen, a member of the right-wing Danish People’s Party, addressed Trump’s efforts at an EU session in Strasbourg, France.
“Dear President Trump, please listen very carefully: Greenland has been part of the Danish kingdom for 800 years. It is an integrated part of our country. It’s not for sale,” Vistisen said.
Vistisen said he would put his comments in “words you could understand.”
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Anders Vistisen, from the Danish ECR party, spoke. (Reuters)
“Mr. Trump, f— off,” Vistisen said. The comment prompted a formal rebuke from European Parliament Vice President Nicolae Ștefănuță, who, however, suggested he too had reservations about Trump.
“If the translation was correct, the term you used is not allowed in this House and there will be consequences for the message you used,” said Ștefănuță, who represents Romania.
“It’s not okay in this House of Democrats. Regardless of what we think of Mr. Trump, it’s not possible to use that language.”
First son Donald Trump Jr. led a small delegation to Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, before the inauguration, meeting with the public and reportedly having lunch.
Both Greenlandic Prime Minister Mute Egede and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen have said the land mass is not for sale.
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The island enjoys relative autonomy in internal affairs and depends on Copenhagen for foreign policy and support.
The US, however, maintains a US Space Force presence in Greenland at Pituffik (formerly Thule) Air Base near Savissivik.
Just over 100 years ago, the US successfully bought Danish land in Copenhagen.
King Christian X of Denmark and the US Senate ratified a 1916 treaty that led to the purchase of what are now the United States Virgin Islands (USVI) – St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix. Then-President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, approved the treaty.
Qaqortoq means “white” in the Greenlandic language. (Danuta Hamlin)
Wilson’s secretary of state, Frank Polk, said people in the island chain would have American citizenship but not the “political status of citizens,” according to State Department archives.
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However, residents were later granted full citizenship through a 1932 act of Congress.
With roots in the Danish West Indies and originally home to British expats, it’s also the only US territory where driving on the left side of the road is legal.
