GREENLAND KIDS APPRECIATION THREAD: Trump envoy hands them MAGA hats, and gets middle fingers in return

[Miles Archer]

Trump envoy hands out MAGA hats to Greenland kids — and gets middle fingers in return

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-greenland-maga/

Donald Trump's latest attempt to win over the people of Greenland crashed and burned after the president dispatched Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry to the Danish territory as a goodwill ambassador — only to have locals greet him with middle fingers and rejections of his giveaway MAGA merchandise.

According to the New York Times, Landry arrived in Nuuk, Greenland's capital, on Sunday claiming he was on a mission to "make a bunch of friends." Within hours, the Times reported, he got nothing but cold shoulders and dismissals.

Landry toured the town in cold drizzle, offering free MAGA hats to Greenlandic children, only to be greeted with refusals. He then attempted to sweeten his pitch by telling some kids that if they visited his Louisiana mansion, they could have "all the chocolate chip cookies you can eat."

Landry's delegation carried "cardboard boxes stuffed with MAGA hats," but few residents wanted them, the report said.

As Landry traveled about on Sunday, he was the recipient of "scowls," with local Hanne Hansen bluntly stating, "They should fix their own country first," and her friend Vivi Nielsen adding, "They need to get out," the Times added.

[tanyev]

1. Bam! 🇬🇱 🇬🇱

[Prairie Gates]

2. Imagine somebody who was actually on a goodwill tour and not a trolling operation

Would they bring fucking MAGA hats to Greenland?

[Ocelot II]

3. Like trying to buy an island with beads and trinkets?

How insulting...

[2naSalit]

4. K&R

[Aristus]

5. 'Come to my house, kids, and you can have - "all the chocolate chip cookies you can eat." '

Jesus, the pedophiles don't even bother to hide it anymore, do they?

[Hey Joe]

6. Hope they pelted him with snowballs!

Talk about tone deaf!

[serbbral]

7. The Children?

Don't the children have parents?

[littlemissmartypants]

12. That question....

[LearnedHand]

8. Why does Greenland let them in?

Americans have zero right to enter that country unless Greenland allows it.

[Cha]

9. Yeah, "fix your own damn shit First, Landry..

How stupid do you have to be to think "free maga dumbshit hats would be well received in Greenland.

They are exponentially smarter than magas.

Better yet, GFY Landry.

[littlemissmartypants]

10. I have an idea. Can we copycat Greenland's idea?

The offer of free MAGA hats was noteworthy in that Greenlandic entrepreneurs have already had success selling red baseball caps reading "Make America Go Away"

But change it up a little...

MAKE AmeriMAGA GO AWAY.

What do y'all think?

[ananda]

11. I laughed when I read that Greenland hats say:

Make America Go Away

[Disaffected]

13. The hubris and ignorance of these characters

is astonishing.

And why on this f'ing earth would they think anyone there would want a MAGA cap??

[AllaN01Bear]

14. Ding, this.

[OldBaldy1701E]

15. WTEverlivin'F??

He then attempted to sweeten his pitch by telling some kids that if they visited his Louisiana mansion, they could have "all the chocolate chip cookies you can eat."

(Freaking psycho-pedoes!)

Why can't we contact other nations as representatives of the actual citizenry of The United States of America, and not The Axis of Evil Part II, and let them know that this shit is coming and advise them on how to deal with it?

Are we really going to continue to tilt our heads and look down our noses at everything?

[2MuchNoise]

16. That's just weird.

[IcyPeas]

17. This..... from the linked article ‼️

Landry's visit comes as the Trump administration is pursuing aggressive demands on Greenland far beyond Trump's earlier threats to seize the island. The U.S. is demanding effective veto power over major investment deals to exclude Russia and China, and is pushing to insert a "forever clause" into decades-old military agreements ensuring U.S. troops remain on the island even if Greenland becomes independent, the Times' Maya Tekeli and Jeffrey Gettleman reported.

Greenlandic officials were particularly troubled by an American doctor accompanying Landry to assess Greenland's medical system — one of the top reasons Greenlanders cite for not wanting to join the United States.