{"id":21665,"date":"2025-02-13T23:12:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T23:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=21665"},"modified":"2025-02-13T23:12:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T23:12:56","slug":"petition-for-denmark-to-purchase-california-reaches-240000-signatures-after-trump-said-he-wanted-to-take-over-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=21665","title":{"rendered":"Petition for Denmark to purchase California reaches 240,000 signatures after Trump said he wanted to take over Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Denmark is seemingly playing Donald Trump at his own game.<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Trump<\/a>\u00a0recently had a rather heated phone call with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, where the pair are believed to have discussed the prospect of\u00a0America acquiring Greenland<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a suggestion that went down like a lead balloon with the Danes.<\/p>\n

But Trump has branded it an ‘absolute necessity’ to buy the island.<\/p>\n

“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout\u00a0the World<\/a>, the United States of\u00a0America<\/a>\u00a0feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” he penned on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

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Donald Trump has suggested that America acquires Greenland (Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

\u201cGreenland is an incredible place. The people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, cherish it, from a very vicious outside World.<\/p>\n

“MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”<\/p>\n

However, Greenland\u2019s prime minister, Mute Egede, has made it ‘very clear’ that the Denmark territory ‘is not for sale and will not be in the future’.<\/p>\n

In the wake of Trump’s unpopular suggestion of the US buying Greenland, someone has made a joke petition that calls for Denmark to purchase\u00a0California<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 one of America’s largest states which has a population of around 38 million people.<\/p>\n

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Over 240,000 people have signed the satirical petition (denmarkification.com<\/a>)<\/cite><\/div>\n

As of today (Thursday, February 13), the petition that’s titled ‘Let\u2019s Buy California from Trump \u2013 Denmark\u2019s Next Big Adventure’ has garnered over 244,000 signatures.<\/p>\n

The bio for the petition\u00a0reads<\/a>: “Have you ever looked at a map and thought, ‘You know what Denmark needs? More sunshine, palm trees, and roller skates.’ Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make that dream a reality. Let\u2019s buy California from Donald Trump!<\/p>\n

“Yes, you heard that right. California could be ours, and we need your help to make it happen.<\/p>\n

“It is in the national interest to promote the extraordinary heritage of our Nation,” the petition goes on. “So California will become New Denmark.\u00a0Los Angeles<\/a>? More like L\u00f8s \u00c5ngeles.”<\/p>\n

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The petition suggests that California should be renamed New Denmark (Getty Stock)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The petition’s thought to have been created by civil tech activist X\u00e5vier Dutoit, who\u00a0spoke to<\/a>\u00a0the Newsweek about why he set it up.<\/p>\n

Apparently Dutoit was in a bar when he overheard ‘a rather annoying discussion of a MAGA-adjacent American that couldn’t quite understand how insane the Greenland proposal is’.<\/p>\n

So, to demonstrate the ‘neocolonialism obscenity’ of Trump’s suggestion, he created the now-viral<\/a>\u00a0petition.<\/p>\n

Dutoit’s page aims to crowdfund a $1 trillion to acquire The Golden State, which averages out to be ‘just 200,000 kroner from every Dane’.<\/p>\n

Pocket change, if you ask me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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