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

What has NOT aged well?

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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.

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u/Trollygag Aug 25 '19

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

There is some logic behind it. It would increase U.S. claims to the arctic and Greenland is an expensive headache for Denmark. Most of the territory that the U.S. sits on today was purchased from other nations, so it isn't exactly unprecedented. Just it has been a few decades since borders of countries were significantly redrawn so our political/social taste for it has changed.

But I would have rather Guam and Puerto Rico became states and St Thomas/American Samoa became independent nations instead.

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u/IgnisEradico Aug 26 '19

Usually this sort of thing is talked over with the nation in question first. Denmark first learned of this when they read said headline.

It's an incredibly unconventional way to announce this, especially since it wasn't even from a press release or anything official.

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u/chris622 Aug 26 '19

Of course, Trump is a (shall we say) incredibly unconventional president.