𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗡 𝗩𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗦 𝗪𝗔𝗬𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣'𝗦 𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗠𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬

  

When Donald Trump walks among the world's leaders, he's tolerated, but not respected, like a little rich kid who has bigger toys and more money, but no manners.  

Like a petulant child, he brags: "I can take your country if I want to" or "I'm going to make your country one of our states."

As for Trump wanting to take back a gift, Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino simply says: "No, Donnie, the canal is Panama's and will remain Panama's."

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, knowing little Donnie loves flattery, tries a different approach: "I know as a successful negotiator he likes to keep people off balance.  The 51st state, it's not going to happen."

Claudia Sheinbaum, the President of Mexico, just laughs on learning Trump wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America:  "He can call the American part of it whatever he wants."

Anders Vistisen, a Danish member of the European Parliament, uses words Trump may have used with his own generals:  "Dear Mr. President, listen very carefully, let me put this in words I think you can understand: F**k Off!"

In an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett, Vistisen made some serious points, saying, first of all that Greenland has been part of Denmark for 800 years, three times longer than the U.S. has been a country.

As to Trump saying that the United States "needed" Greenland for nationality security, Vistisen pointed out that Denmark and the U.S. have had a security agreement since 1941 allowing the U.S. a military base in Greenland and that it could be expanded, if necessary, but Denmark was not surrendering sovereignty.

Next, as to whether Greenlanders would be "better off" being part of the United States, Vistesen pointed out that Denmark sold the U.S. the Virgin Islands over 100 years ago, March 31, 1917, yet the residents of the Virgin Island never became citizens.  They can't vote.  They have no representation in the U.S. Congress and "they frankly don't regard being part of the U.S. with a lot of enthusiasm."  

Greenland is a self-governing part of the Danish Commonwealth and its residents are Danish citizens with the right to vote and have representation.

For the next four years, the world's leaders will have to deal with Donald Trump, but they seem to have the skillset to protect their own interests.