Greater than 230,000 folks have signed a tongue-in-cheek retaliatory petition calling for Denmark to buy California in response to President Trump’s rising want to accumulate Greenland.
The Denmarkification marketing campaign pokes enjoyable at Trump’s well-known slogan — and his repeated calls to increase America’s territory — because it goals to boost “$1 trillion (give or take a number of billion)” in crowdfunding and 500,000 signatures to “Måke Califørnia Nice Ægain.”
“Let’s purchase California from Donald Trump!” the petition states.
“Sure, you heard that proper. California might be ours, and we want your assist to make it occur.”
The petition, which guarantees a lifetime provide of Danish treats if the deal goes by way of, has garnered almost 235,000 signatures, as of Wednesday night time.
Xavier Dutoit, the petition’s Swiss-French organizer, launched the satirical marketing campaign after overhearing an American vacationer within the Philippines boasting concerning the president’s longstanding dream to rename the icy island “Pink, White and Blueland.”
“That American didn’t appear to understand how unhinged and absurd it was for any nation’s President – particularly in a steady democracy that the USA claims to be – to supply or threaten to take over one other sovereign nation’s territory,” Dutoit advised the Related Press.
Dutoit stated he’s been consulting with a multi-national group of buddies on the petition, together with Copenhagen resident Kenneth Haar.
Haar, who’s Danish, insists the Trump-Greenland debate is the “greatest political problem” within the nation.
“It’s thought-about a really miserable and a really harmful state of affairs,” he advised the outlet.
Trump, 78, has lengthy set his sights on buying Greenland, a territory owned by the Kingdom of Denmark, which insists the island shouldn’t be on the market.
The forty seventh president renewed his aspirations of buying Greenland after profitable the 2024 election and has not dominated out the usage of navy pressure to attain that objective — arguing the land is paramount to nationwide safety.
Greenland, which has a inhabitants of about 57,000, has been dominated by Denmark for the reason that nineteenth century.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended the president’s objective of taking Greenland by highlighting US navy assist for the island territory and a 1951 treaty to defend it within the occasion of an assault.
Trump has additionally eyed Canada, the Panama Canal and the war-ravaged Gaza Strip as doable choices for the US to increase its territory.
“Have you ever ever checked out a map and thought, ‘You already know what Denmark wants? Extra sunshine, palm timber, and curler skates. Effectively, we’ve got a once-in-a-lifetime alternative to make that dream a actuality,” the petition says.
“It’s within the nationwide curiosity to advertise the extraordinary heritage of our Nation, so California will develop into New Denmark. Los Angeles? Extra like Løs Ångeles.”
Disneyland can be renamed “Hans Christian Andersenland,” with a Mickey Mouse in a Viking helmet, the petition jests.
Organizers will ship their “bestest negotiators,” together with Lego executives and the Danish solid of the political drama “Borgen,” to snag the Golden State in a proposal that will “convey hygge to Hollywood, bike lanes to Beverly Hills, and natural smørrebrød to each road nook.”
“Rule of legislation, common well being care and fact-based politics may apply,” the petition states, noting that Trump could also be open to promoting the state amid his ongoing feud with Gov. Gavin Newsom and different political leaders.
“This marketing campaign is 100% actual … in our desires,” a disclaimer on the backside of the petition reads.
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