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US president tweets image of enormous Trump Tower on Greenland
- The social media post came a day after he said he was mulling the idea of buying the autonomous Danish territory, though it’s not his top priority
- People in Denmark called Trump’s proposition ‘crazy’, ‘patronising’ and ‘absurd’
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Donald Trump may still want to purchase Greenland – but the US president says he has no plans to embellish the island’s coast with a Trump Tower.
On Monday night, Trump tweeted an edited photo of a coastal town dotted with colourful homes – all dwarfed by a golden skyscraper bearing the US president’s name.
“I promise not to do this to Greenland!” Trump said.
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The tweet came a day after he confirmed news reports that he was mulling the idea of buying the autonomous Danish territory, though he has acknowledged that such a deal is “not No 1 on the burner”.
Front of mind, perhaps, are warnings from economists that the US economy is teetering toward a recession. But Trump, ever the businessman, apparently cannot resist the prospect of what he has called “essentially a large real estate deal” with miles of coastline.
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“Strategically it’s interesting and we’d be interested but we’ll talk to them a little bit,” Trump told reporters on Sunday.
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