'Trump has often been accused of conquering the American electorate by dividing it,' writes Ask Foldspang Neve for CNNOpinion. 'But when it was rumored he was considering a US purchase of Greenland, he managed to create the opposite effect in Denmark.'
Ask Foldspang Neve is a development consultant and a sociologist at the University of Oxford. His commentary on Greenland has appeared in various major Danish media outlets. Most recently, he was a consultant for a major USAID-funded project in Afghanistan. The views expressed here are his. Read more opinion on CNN.
President Donald Trump has often been accused of conquering the American electorate by dividing it along racial and economic lines. Yet, when it was rumored that Trump was considering an American purchase of Greenland off Denmark, he somehow managed to create the exact opposite effect. Ask Foldspang Neve By suggesting that a constituent part of the country he is visiting in a couple of weeks, including, presumably, its 56,000 citizens, were a good to be bargained over, Trump managed to bring normally quarreling parties in Denmark across the political spectrum together in a common, stern rejection of the idea.
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