Greenland?

      I try to stay away from politics and religion they are no-win subjects that result in half of the readers getting somewhere between upset and enraged. Yet, I have no issues in writing about economics and philosophy which are somewhat related. The only risk in these subjects is putting all my readers to sleep. 

     Thus far, I have avoided writing about our President who provides numerous opportunities a week for commentary. He is so polarizing that I have simply avoided writing about him since the election and inauguration: This Crazy Election Night, The Transition of Power, and The Inauguration and the Day After. Oh, I forgot, I did mention him recently in February of this year when I wrote that America will Never Be a Socialist County... I have not written about his squaring with anybody and everybody on Twitter and his countless inappropriate comments that seem to further the polarization in our government and country that bothers me so. 

     But, I have to comment on this Greenland thing. It caught me completely off guard. I would have never predicted that President Trump would raise the idea of purchasing Greenland from Denmark. At first, I thought it was a joke. It had to be a joke. But he did not let it go of it. He was so serious about it, he cancelled a planned trip to Denmark and attributed it to “Prime Minister Mette

Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland.”

     The cancellation of the September 2 – 3 trip stunned and upset Prime Minister Frederiksen and the Danish Royal Family. 

     Greenland? Why Greenland? I have a few theories. 

     Perhaps he just didn’t want to go. He needed a reason cancel, so he brought up this Greenland thing knowing that they would never go for it and he could back out of the trip and get points with his followers. Sure, it is absurd but it worked and probably made his supporters even prouder of him. 

     The Jefferson-Madison Factor: One of the greatest achievements of Thomas Jefferson’s Presidency was the Louisiana Purchase. The purchase of this vast territory from France was negotiated by future President James Madison. Perhaps Trump wanted to leave a similar legacy by purchasing… um… Greenland. 

     The Climate Change Theory: Maybe he is interested in buying Greenland because secret government climate change studies show that Greenland will become a tropical paradise in the future. He is, after, all a real estate speculator and developer. He professes not believe in climate change but that is mere political posturing. Greenland becoming the Hawii of tomorrow, that is inside information that gives him leverage in a business deal. He even tweeted that he would not develop it… yeah, right. 

     Why not buy Mexico and Central America? We could “fix” those countries and solve our immigration problems all at the same time. Well… maybe. As it turns out, we don’t have a great track record of fixing our own Trump defined problem areas like the murder and gun violence problem in Chicago or the poverty and rat infestation in Baltimore. 

     Why Greenland and not other countries? Needless to say, I think we could buy Armenia to irritate Putin and Erdogan. We could buy Formosa just to irritate China. We could buy Canada as it is practically a state already. Heck, we could buy back the Phillipines? We could by Kashmir and bring peace to the region. We should buy Puerto Rico. Wait… 

     Yeah, Greenland! Most definitely Greenland. Let’s stick with that. After we close that deal, we decide what to buy next.

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