President Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to postpone a state visit to Denmark, accusing the country’s prime minister of making a “nasty and inappropriate statement” in rejecting his desire to discuss possibly purchasing Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory.“I thought it was a very not nice way of saying something. They could have told me no,” Trump told reporters at the White House before departing for a speech at the AMVETS convention in Kentucky.
“All they had to say was we’d rather not do that,” he added. “Don’t say, what an absurd idea that is.”
“She’s not talking to me, she’s talking to the United States of America. You don’t talk to the United States that way.”
View the complete August 21 article by Morgan Chalfant on The Hill website here.