WASHINGTON – President Trump has cancelled his planned visit to Denmark after learning that Greenland is not for sale. We truly wish we were making that part up, as it would be a brilliant satire headline on its own, but it’s true. When word leaked that the president was interested in purchasing Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen immediately noted that Greenland is not for sale, leading Trump to make a second offer, this time to purchase the state of Vermont.
“Greenland, Green Mountains, either way, I’ll take it,” Trump tweeted early Wednesday morning, despite advisers informing him that Vermont was already technically part of the United States. Trump acknowledged that he had been told about the current status of the 14th state, but did not believe his advisers to be telling the truth. “Someone just told me I already own Vermont. Wrong! I would have heard of it. #sad #fakenews”
According to sources inside the White House, the leaked Greenland strategy comes at a very bad time for the president, who had been hoping to use the announcement in two weeks as a distraction from a planned attack on bilingual US citizens. September 2nd was to be the day ICE started confiscating and invalidating passports for any US citizen who speaks both English and Spanish fluently, and the White House was expecting to turn the country’s eye with another ridiculous display of smoke and mirrors. Now, they are employing a similar strategy to keep the media at bay with this new offer of accepting Vermont into the United States.
“I’m not sure if we’ll get enough traction out of this to carry us through September,” said one anonymous source, “but it should at least keep people from paying attention to the fact that we’re going to kill all the bald eagles and polar bears in order to get even richer. And if Vermont refuses to sell to us and the whole thing dies down early, we have a backup backup plan of trying to purchase the moon. You know, for Space Force headquarters.”
You guys got it wrong. While the Greenland smokescreen was thrown out for the gullible press Trump concluded the sale of Alaska back to Russia to the joy of his great Uncle Vladimir. Seward’s Folly becomes Putin’s Jolly. The updated Russo-Alaska pipeline is being planned to be constructed this winter when it is dark up there and nobody would notice where the oil is going.
Oh, rats. First the guy from Utah, and now this. The answer is NO. Vermont belongs to the people, and it is only tentativly in the USA- our state Constitution has a opt-out provision. Besides which we have three political parties here: the Progressives are growing faster than the Republicans are shrinking. Nothing against Republicans- I have a very close friend who is a Republican. I hope we don’t have to call in a hurricane to keep Trump from coming. We have fall plans to get ready for and don’t need the distraction.
If he can’t buy Vermont, he should settle for South Canada. He could buy it dirt cheap.
But Greenland would have been the perfect birthday present for Vladimir, the Russian who has (well, wants) everything. Even Donald knows you can’t gift a United State to a foreign leader, even if it is a state that voted for Hilary.
Trump’s already been here, he booked the Flynn Theater and only let in admitted Turmp supporters and protestors who lied through their teeth. “Oh yeah, we love Trump. A lot.” Truth is stranger than satire. Maine might be more appropriate, the Maine hummah-ists would have a lot of fun with him.
Could we just put him on a melting iceberg, and watch it/him disappear??!!