Greenland to Trump: Thanks, but we're not for sale
TASIILAQ, Greenland (AP) - Greenlanders are giving Donald Trump the 冷淡な shoulder.
Although amused, they're definitely not warming up to the U.S. 大統領，／社長's talk of buying the semiautonomous Danish 領土.
"We see it as an 表現 of greater 利益／興味 in 投資するing in our country and the 可能性s we 申し込む／申し出," the Greenland 政府 said Friday in a short 声明. "Of course, Greenland is not for sale."
報告（する）／憶測s that Trump had spoken about the notion of buying the land 集まり, which lies between the 大西洋 and 北極の oceans, were good for a laugh, 居住（者）s said.
"He has nothing to do with Greenland," said 28-year-old Martina M.D.D. Tay, who was born and raised in Tasiilaq, a 沿岸の Greenland town of about 2,000 people. "I think it's a ridiculous idea. I think it sounds stupid."
Lars Loekke Rasmussen, who served as Danish 首相 until June, 重さを計るd in on social マスコミ, tweeting "it must be an April Fool's Day joke" that was out of season.
An 空中の 見解（をとる） of large Icebergs floating as the sun rises 近づく Kulusuk, Greenland, 早期に Friday, Aug. 16, 2019. Greenland has been melting faster in the last １０年間 and this summer, it has seen two of the biggest melts on 記録，記録的な／記録する since 2012. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
A Trump 同盟（する） told The Associated 圧力（をかける） on Thursday that the 共和国の／共和党の 大統領，／社長 had discussed the 購入（する） but was not serious about it. And a 共和国の／共和党の congressional 補佐官 said Trump brought up the notion of buying Greenland in conversations with American 国会議員s enough times to make them wonder, but they have not taken his comments 本気で. Both spoke on the 条件 of anonymity to discuss 私的な conversations.
"Because of the 非公式の nature of the news, the 政府 of Greenland has no その上の comments," Greenland said on its website.
The White House has not commented on the 報告（する）／憶測s, but it wouldn't be the first time an American leader tried to buy the world's largest island.
In 1946, the U.S. 提案するd 支払う／賃金ing Denmark $100 million to buy Greenland after flirting with the idea of swapping land in Alaska for 戦略の parts of the 北極の island.
When she heard that Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland, Tina Joergensen laughed.
"I thought it was a joke," said Joergensen, a native of Denmark who was 飛行機で行くing from tiny Kulusuk on Greenland's eastern coast to the larger Tasiilaq for a new 職業 as a nurse. "He can buy anything I guess, or this is what he thinks he can. But you can't - sorry. In my 見解（をとる）, you can't buy a country. It's very respectless."
Jakob Ipsen was いっそう少なく than impressed with the 可能性 Trump may want to 購入（する） his nation. Ipsen has something in ありふれた with the U.S. 大統領，／社長: Both run hotels.
Ipsen's hotel is smaller than a Trump one and 供給するs 手渡すs-on service, such as finding boats and 運動ing guests around. Ipsen 公式文書，認めるd there's a history of 部外者s unsuccessfully wanting to take over the 巨大（な）, mostly barren island.
"Never going to happen. They tried in 1867 without luck. They tried after World War II," Ipsen said. "It didn't happen then and it's not going to happen now."
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Miller 報告（する）／憶測d from Washington. Matthew 物陰／風下 in Washington and David Rising in Berlin 与える／捧げるd to this story.
In this photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019, icebergs are photographed from the window of an airplane carrying 航空宇宙局 Scientists as they 飛行機で行く on a 使節団 to 跡をつける melting ice in eastern Greenland. Greenland has been melting faster in the last １０年間 and this summer, it has seen two of the biggest melts on recor d since 2012. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
大統領 Donald Trump 反応するs at the end of his speech at a （選挙などの）運動をする 決起大会／結集させる, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
A 地元の man smokes a cigarette as he rides on a boat past icebergs in eastern Greenland, late Friday, Aug. 15, 2019. Greenland has been melting faster in the last １０年間 and this summer, it has seen two of the biggest melts on 記録，記録的な／記録する since 2012. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
An iceberg floats 近づく a 共同墓地 in Kulusuk, Greenland, 早期に Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. Greenland has been melting faster in the last １０年間 and this summer, it has seen two of the biggest melts on 記録，記録的な／記録する since 2012. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
