Trump should cool Greenland obsession

Opinion

August 21, 2019 - 11:55 AM

The president of the United States wants to buy a continent-sized Arctic island with so few inhabitants that nearly all could fit into Busch Stadium — and which, incidentally, isn’t for sale. Tell us again how Donald Trump is such a brilliant businessman?

There is a bit of irony to this idea of buying Greenland: That massive island-nation sits at the front lines of human-caused global warming, a phenomenon most of the advanced world is trying to address, but which Trump and his party refuse to acknowledge is real.

Such a sale isn’t going to happen, of course. The fact that…

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