The satirical counteroffer on President Donald Trump’s proposal to buy Greenland came out in the form of a petition suggesting Denmark should buy California.
More than 200,000 people have been registered in the plan, and the Scandinavian country says it needs “more sunlight, palm trees and roller skating.”
“Måke California Great Egain” read the top of the petition and replaced the English letter with a Danish letter.
Among the “supporters” listed on the petition are Sven the Viking, the king of ancient Scandinavians, Karen of Accounting, and Lars Ulrich, a Danish drummer and founding member of the band Metallica.
“Imagine replacing rain boots with flip-flops,” the petition states. Perhaps we recognize the fact that Denmark exposes an hour of sunlight a day. In contrast, California gains 300 days of sunlight per year.
As part of the buyout plan, the petition – launched on the website denmarkification.com – sets a crowdfunding goal of $1 trillion, “Give billions, take billions,” and 500,000 signatures. did.
The Danish Foreign Office and the offices of California Governor Gavin Newsom did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
And at the bottom of the petition website that does not mention Greenland, there is the message “Disclaimer: This campaign is 100% real… in our dreams.”
The United States considered purchasing Greenland at least twice in 1867, and in 1946 President Harry S. Truman proposed to buy it for $100 million.
Trump has proposed several times that the US should purchase Greenland, the world’s largest island between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean, and is technically part of North America. It had been under Danish rule since the 14th century, but in 1979 it became an autonomous territory.
Denmark repeatedly rejected his overture, claiming that Greenland was not on sale.
Last week, the Danish Parliament passed a bill to prevent political parties from receiving foreign or anonymous contributions.
The bill must be seen in light of the geopolitical interests of Greenland and the current situation in which representatives of the Allied powers are interested in taking over and controlling Greenland. “He says.
There has been a popular and long-standing movement for Greenland’s independence from Denmark, but most of the island’s 56,000 inhabitants (most of the Inuit tribes) seem to agree that it is not for sale .
“Greenland is for the people of Greenland. We don’t want to be Danish. Last month, Mute B. Eged, the prime minister of the territory, said.
The campaign’s “Chief Pastry Officer” Xåvier Dutoit said one night in the Philippines he had a beer with a friend and the idea of petition came to him.
“On vacation, I was in the bar with some friends and overhears a pretty big American tourist discussing Donald Trump’s bid to buy Greenland from Denmark,” he emailed. I wrote it. “How indifferent and absurd that Americans are, especially in the stable democracy the United States claims, that it is threatening to take over the territory of other sovereign countries. It seems he didn’t know if that was the case.”
The next morning he wrote, he compiled a “funny campaign website” that he “was completely intended to entertain my friends for a few days.” Instead, it went viral.
The campaign began to explode on Tuesday, Dutoit said, and now there are 1,000 new signatures per hour.
“We were particularly impressed by the many warm and enthusiastic support from Californians, and when people from other parts of the United States raised their hands in pursuit of asking them to buy the state by Denmark. I was laughing!” he wrote. “It seems a lot of people needed this little bit of fun and lightness.
Whether Californians are open to petitions that Denmark should own the country is committed to sending executives from Danish toymer Lego to secure the nation, and the country’s “best negotiator” I call it.
“The rule of law, universal health care, and fact-based politics may apply,” the petition states. “We bring it to Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and organic smørrebrød to every street corner.”
