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Trump cancels meeting with Danish PM over Greenland rebuff

US President Donald Trump has postponed a planned meeting with the Danish prime minister because she says she will not discuss selling Greenland.

Mr Trump has floated the idea of buying Greenland, which is owned by Denmark, but said as recently as Sunday that the bid was not a priority for his administration.

Denmark scoffed at the suggestion, saying the island wasn’t for sale.

“Greenland is not Danish. Greenland is Greenlandic. I persistently hope that this is not something that is seriously meant,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Sunday.

The idea was absurd, she said.

Greenlanders were also bemused at the US President’s apparent plan.

“We see it as an expression of greater interest in investing in our country and the possibilities we offer,” the Greenland government said on Friday, before Mr Trump had even weighed in publicly.

“Of course, Greenland is not for sale.”

On Tuesday (US time), Mr Trump tweeted that “based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time.”

“The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct,” Mr Trump said.

“I thank her for that.”

Mr Trump is scheduled to leave on a European trip at the end of August. It was to include stops in Poland and Denmark – where he was expected to meet the Danish Queen, and Greenland’s prime minister, Kim Kielsen.

On Monday, Mr Trump poked fun at the Greenland speculation, tweeting an image of his Trump Tower photoshopped onto the island with the caption “I promise not to do this.”

That fell flat with Mr Kielsen, who responded that the idea was “not something to joke about”.

-with agencies

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