Greenland isn't for sale, but Republican donors can get a T-shirt that suggests otherwise
House Republicans’ campaign arm is not only standing behind President Donald Trump’s bid to buy Greenland — it's fundraising off it.
The National Republican Congressional Committee began running a promotion in which donors contributing $25 or more receive a limited-edition T-shirt depicting the semiautonomous Arctic island, part of the Kingdom of Denmark, as part of the U.S.the promotion touting the limited-edition tee. The red shirt features a map of the continental U.S., along with silhouettes of Alaska, Hawaii and Greenland patterned with the American flag.
The president’s interest in acquiring Greenland, initially assumed by some in the White House to be a throwaway comment, has grown into an international flap after The Wall Street JournalGreenland’s foreign ministry asserted the next day that the island is “open for business, not for sale,” and Trump canceled an upcoming trip to Denmark after its prime minister called his interest in a purchase “absurd.”the prime minister’s “nasty” statement, asserting it was needlessly rude.
The NRCC has gotten walloped in fundraising by its Democratic counterpart as the GOP looks to retake the House next year, raising $4.1 million last month, compared with the DCCC's $7.3 million.
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