Denmark: Siltanews – News Desk
Danish citizens have launched a petition to purchase America’s most populous and prosperous state, California, in response to Donald Trump’s efforts to acquire Greenland. This comes after Trump has made claims to buy Greenland. The tongue-in-cheek petition, which is apparently seeking to crowdfund $1 trillion to buy the Golden State, claims it has garnered just shy of 200,000 signatures.
Since returning to White House last month, US President Donald Trump has called for Canada to become the 51st US state, suggested he might take over the Panama Canal, floated US ownership of Gaza – and tried to buy Greenland. Now, things have taken a U-turn as Denmark- which owns Greenland- is clapping back.
More than 200,000 Danes have signed a satirical petition to buy California from the US, according to The Guardian. It comes after California’s Secretary of State Shirley Webster permitted a campaign to begin collecting signatures to vote to secede from the U.S. and become an independent country on the 2028 election ballot.
A satirical online petition has grabbed the attention of both Californians and Danes alike.As of Tuesday, the “Denmarkification” petition – which calls for the country of Denmark to buy the state of California – has collected more than 200,000 signatures.
The petition comes in response to Trump’s continued interest in purchasing Greenland, a territory of Denmark. In January, the president even talked about how he hasn’t ruled out using military force take control of both Greenland and the Panama Canal. Greenland’s leader, Múte B. Egede, has rebuffed the US president’s interest, saying his people don’t want to be Americans.