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Some news items you might have missed: • The Advocate: Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Washington, D.C., Episcopal bishop who asked Trump to have mercy on on frightened LGBTQ people earlier this week, presided over a service honoring gay hate-crime victim Matthew Shepard at the Washington National Cathedral in 2018. Continue reading “Rev. Mariann Budde Honored Matthew Shepard + More News”
On Sunday afternoon, Donald Trump suggested that the U.S. would somehow gain ownership of Greenland, a self-ruling territory of Denmark. But the Prime Minister of Greenland promptly responded: “We are not for sale.” Continue reading “Greenland PM To Donald Trump: ‘We Are Not For Sale’”
From the New York Times:
In the latest only-in-Trumpland episode skating precariously along the line between farce and tragedy, the president of the United States on Wednesday attacked the prime minister of Denmark because she will not sell him Greenland — and found the very notion “absurd.”
But while Mr. Trump has long derided nation-building, his flirtation with nation-buying turned out to be more serious than many originally thought. He has been talking privately about buying Greenland for more than a year and even detailed the National Security Council staff to study the idea.
At one point last year, according to a former official who heard him, he even joked in a meeting about trading Puerto Rico for Greenland — happy to rid himself of an American territory whose leadership he has feuded with repeatedly.