Trump calls Danish PM’s rebuff of Greenland idea ‘nasty’ as trip cancellation stuns Danes

But Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she did not think U.S.-Denmark relations would be affected.

By Nikolaj Skydsgaard, Reuters, Jeff Mason, Reuters August 21, 2019
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WASHINGTON/COPENHAGEN — President Donald Trump declared Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s dismissal of his idea to buy Greenland “nasty” and an affront to the United States on Wednesday, a day after shocking Danes by canceling a Copenhagen visit over the rebuff.

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