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$1m would be insulting.
$10k is beyond insulting. That's probably one the cheapest entry fees to one of his disgusting Mar-a-Lago fundraisers.
Trump really has a knack for insulting people. He's basically saying "You're worth a fifth of a Tesla car". How cheap can you be...
1This demonstrates how he thinks - He's obviously getting paid by Putin to destroy America, so he thinks everybody else is just like him. Offer enough money, and theyll sell out their country, too. He has no conception of patriotism or loyalty to his country.
I'd promise him anything he wants, take his money (after jacking it up to a million bucks), then immediately betray him. Everybody in his country should do that. Whats he going to do, sue me for not being a traitor? He can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.
That's a visit to a US hospital
A single visit
for a warm blanket and a Tylenol
Lucky
How about if he threw in the Tesla’s with poor quality and no craftsmanship? Y’know to boost all those American manufacturing jobs, and the mechanics, and Elon’s tax subsidized billions.
Ten thousand US dollar as personal money for leaving democracy and entering a dictatorship (or at least an autocracy)? Err…
I'm in the US, where's my $10,000?
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Whoops! You misspelled serfs!
They already get $10k from Denmark every year, so they'd get nothing in comparison.
"We'll give you ten grand for the opportunity to be deported to an El Salvadoran prison if we don't like you. It's a great deal!"
And don't forget to say "Thank you".
The money isn't for you to spend though, it's for your relocation. Because you WILL be sent to El Salvador.
One could even say that’s an art of a deal, ay?
The plan would replace the $600 million in subsidies Denmark gives the island each year
A quick google tells me Greenland has a population of ~57,000. At $10k per resident, that's $570 million.
On money alone, his offer is less than what they already receive, and unless he's pitching for some sort of UBI it'll be a one-time payment instead of annual. Is this the art of the deal they keep talking about?
The right-wing tactic of dismantling a program or getting a discount by offering lump sum cash up front, instead of better value in programs and services.
They prey on desperate, uneducated people who see the money in front of them.
Desperate is the right word, and I think they’re intending to make people more desperate in order to exert control.
I’m not saying a $10k gift would be life-changing, but it would pay off a significant amount of my debt, freeing up a lot of my monthly cash flow.
Also, Denmark subsides are probably in Euros. So it's already 5% higher just on Trump's first 3 months.
Denmark actually isn't part of the eurozone and uses its own currency, Danish krone
Interestingly, the value of the Danish krone is pegged to the value of the euro, meaning the job of the national bank is to ensure a more or less constant exchange rate of 1€ = 7.45DKK.
So when the euro performs well, the krone performs well.
10k to get lost, it's unspoken but the money is to leave the country because that is then owned by Trump.
This is a typical Trump deal, Trump gets what he wants and the other side gets ripped off. There never will be equal footing between trading partners in a Trump deal.
10k of MY FUCKING TAX MONEY, you stupid ape!
McDonald's do your job already. This is getting ridiculous.
10,000 * 56,583 ~= 566 million < 600 million.
Bruh, he doesn't even want to pay out the annual subsidy once.
Shut the fuck up. Enough.
Not you, MicroWave. The Republican president.
But a UBI would be economically unviable.
Lmao ok.
"A Trump never pays hus bills"
For anyone who voted for Trump because your cost of living is too high... How y'all feeling about this?
Trump wants to give everyone in Greenland $10k. Where's your $10k? What the actual fuck has this guy done to help you out so far?
How is it that DOGE has to force your grandma to walk to an office for her social security because a phone line was too expensive, but Trump has money to throw $600m a year at this?
Nobody said per year. That 10k is so they can get the fuck off americas new playground. One time.
WTF!!
What a moronic proposal, as it is, Denmark is helping them with much more than that each year.
Greenland only has 56.669 inhabitants, giving everyone including children would only amount to 567 million!!
In direct Regional financial support alone Denmark is sending about 600 million USD per year.
And that's apart from paying for instance police and military support.
And Greenland is tax exempt too!!
What a demeaning cheapskate offer.
I believe Greenland should have the right to decide for themselves.
But as a Dane, I find that offer insulting!
You don't even need to be Danish to find that offer insulting.
10k to live in a dictatorship, or wait 6 months and stay in a sane country? He's stupider every day.
Given what Trump is doing to the American economy, it might be better to offer Chinese Yuan.
No.
Greenland should say “we’re interested, but we’d need statehood and voting representatives in the house and Senate” - which would effectively end GOP control of the Senate for a generation.
If he tries anything like this in Canada I very much hope our leaders don't say that. Those of us who haven't fallen into the MAGA black hole don't ever want to be part of the USA, even with representation in their rotten system of government. I'm fairly sure Greenlanders would feel similarly.
I haven't read Fart of the Meal or whatever it's called, but I feel like asking Greenlanders what it would take for them to want to be annexed may be a better (but still not good) way to broach the subject. And, if they say there's nothing at all the US can offer them, then take that as a blatant hint to back the fuck off.
Better than Hawaii
It would be to be per year to match Denmark's contribution and I don't believe anyone would trust to pay his debts.
A Trump NEVER pays his debts.
Even $5 million would probably be cheaper than what it would cost to take it by force.
He will take most of it away in taxes.
Denmark's Novo Nordisk had $44.1B revenue last year ($15.2B net), largely from us fatass Americans and Ozempic.
I think they can outbid the fatass with his own money (he's on it).
