A member of the European Parliament didn’t mince phrases when he provided a public message to President Donald Trump this week about his want to make Greenland a part of the US.
“Pricey President Trump, hear very fastidiously,” Anders Vistisen, a right-wing lawmaker from Denmark, mentioned on Tuesday in Parliament. “Greenland have been a part of the Danish kingdom for 800 years. It’s an built-in a part of our nation. It isn’t on the market.”
If that wasn’t direct sufficient, he subsequent used some language that acquired him into somewhat bother with the group.
“Let me put it in phrases you would possibly perceive,” he mentioned. “Mr. Trump, fuck off!”
Nicolae Stefanuta, vice chairman of the European Parliament, primarily advised Vistisen to look at his mouth.
“If the interpretation was appropriate, the time period you used shouldn’t be allowed on this home and there might be penalties to the message you might have used,” he mentioned. “It isn’t OK on this home of democracy. Thanks. No matter what we consider Mr. Trump, it isn’t potential to make use of such language.”
Vistisen didn’t appear very apologetic as he posted his message on X, full with the rebuke:
Trump sought Greenland throughout his first time period in workplace, saying in 2019 that it was “hurting Denmark very badly” by costing the nation $700 million a 12 months. He mentioned the US may scoop it up.
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“Primarily it’s a big actual property deal,” he said at the time.
He has introduced it up once more since successful the 2024 election, calling “possession” of the island “an absolute necessity” for the US, and refused to rule out taking it by force. Earlier this month, he claimed that the 56,000 folks there “would love to become a state.”
Each Greenland and Danish officers have insisted that the island is not for sale.
