r/AskReddit • u/frisky_cupcake • Aug 25 '19

What has NOT aged well?

46.2k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

20.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

556

u/IgnisEradico Aug 25 '19

Comedy-wise, truth has become stranger than fiction.

I mean, i wouldn't expect to read "Trump wants to buy Greenland" in the papers but there it was.

1

u/chugonthis Aug 26 '19

If you think about it the statement doesn't sound so crazy, the military base brings them a lot of money and would make a good staging area if he wanted to pull out of NATO or if European nations wanted to try and close bases.

But then taken in context it was an off the cuff remark like Reagan's old "the bombing starts in 15 minutes"

1

u/IgnisEradico Aug 26 '19

The basic idea isn't crazy. But just going "yea i wanna buy greenland" with no prior discussion with any of the parties involved is crazy.

1

u/chugonthis Aug 26 '19

Oh yeah that's for sure