‘Mr. Trump, F**k off!’ Foul mouthed Danish leader’s message to Trump about Greenland draws rebuke

A Danish politician’s profane message to President Donald J. Trump that Greenland isn’t for sale drew criticism for his foul-mouthed lack of decorum with some likely wanting to wash his mouth out with soap.

Trump has expressed an interest in the U.S. acquiring the Danish territory, the world’s largest island, which is located between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and is of great strategic value to America’s national security interests in the Arctic region.

But while some actually living in Greenland have been receptive to the idea, the Euros are balking. Few have been as uncouth as Anders Vistisen, a Dane member of the European Parliament who unleashed an F-bomb against the new U.S. leader during a Tuesday meeting in Strasbourg, France.

“Dear President Trump, listen very carefully. Greenland has been part of the Danish kingdom for 800 years. It’s an integrated part of our country, it is not for sale,” Vistisen declared. “Let me put it in words you might understand. Mr. Trump, f**k off.”

The vulgar message to America’s new leader drew a rebuke from Nicolae Stefanuta, the European Parliament’s vice president.

“If the translation was correct, the term you used is not allowed in this house and there will be consequences to the message you have used,” he said. “It is not ok in this house of democracy. Regardless of what we think of Mr. Trump, it is not possible to use such language.”

“Greenland is a wonderful place. We need fair, international security, and I am sure that Denmark will come along. I think — it’s costing them a lot of money to maintain it, to keep it,” Trump told reporters from the Oval Office on Monday night during a news conference as he signed off on a flurry of executive orders.

Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede recently told Fox News that Greenlanders aren’t interested in becoming part of the U.S.

“We will always be a part of NATO. We will always be a strong partner for the U.S.,” Egede told anchor Bret Baier. “We are close neighbors. We have been incorporated in the last 80 years. And I think the future has a lot to offer, to cooperate with.”

“But we want to also be clear: We don’t want to be Americans,” he added. “We don’t want to be a part of the U.S., but we want strong cooperation together with the U.S.”

Trump has also called for retaking control over the Panama Canal which was given away by Jimmy Carter, noting concern with growing Chinese control over the vital international waterway. In his inauguration speech, he said that the U.S. would be “taking it back.”

This isn’t sitting well with Russia and the country’s Director of Russia’s Foreign Ministry’s Latin American Department Alexander Shchetinin told state news outlet TASS he expects that the new president “will respect the current international legal regime” of the Panama Canal per the two 1977 treaties between Panama and the United States.

“We expect that during the expected discussions between the leadership of Panama and President Trump on issues of control over the Panama Canal, which certainly falls within the sphere of their bilateral relations, the parties will respect the current international legal regime of this key waterway,” Shchetinin told the outlet.

“[The U.S. and Panama] must protect the canal from any threat to the neutrality regime,” Shchetinin said, according to Fox News. “At the same time, a reservation was made that the said right of the United States to defend the Panama Canal does not mean and should not be interpreted as the right to interfere in the internal affairs of Panama, and any actions by the American side will never be directed against the territorial integrity or political independence of Panama.”

“We didn’t give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back,” Trump said on Monday.

Chris Donaldson

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