President Trump sends out statenff ed bts on Truth Social, his personal social media site, that are sometimes odd. Someone in the White House should fact-check them before he posts and embarrasses himself.
Over the weekend, he posted this:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It’s on the way!!!
President DJT
Trump’s tweet (or whatever it’s called on Truth Social) led to head-scratching on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Washington Post reported the response from Greenland:
Officials on the island, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, did not ask for such a ship, and Greenland’s prime minister said it will not be welcoming it, as its citizens are guaranteed free health care.
“It’s a no thank you from here,” Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said in a statement Sunday.
“President Trump’s idea of sending an American hospital ship here to Greenland has been noted. But we have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens. That is a deliberate choice — and a fundamental part of our society. That is not how it works in the USA.”
Trump’s announcement came shortly after news that a member of the crew on an American submarine had a medical emergency and was airlifted by a Danish helicopter to Nuuk.
Trump’s promise to send a hospital ship to Greenland was equally bizarre because both of the Navy’s hospital ships are in dry dock undergoing repairs.
I first learned about this imaginary crisis this morning when I read Jeff Tiedrich’s hilarious post. I considered reposting it here because it was both newsworthy and hilarious, but decided against doing so because it is so scatological.
Consider the title:
batshit fuckwit vows to fix imaginary Greenland health crisis
perfectly normal stuff
folks, it is a bad thing when the president of the United States is so utterly detached from reality that when he announces a great humanitarian relief effort, no one has any fucking clue what he’s gibbering about?
And that’s just the beginning!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I so enjoy Jeff Tiedrich’s blogging. Helps keep me calm in these chaotic times. ☺️ Glad you like it as well.
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It is time to send this guy to the AARP rest home for demented politicians where he can rant on a variety of topics, bark at the moon and tweet into oblivion.
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Now what on earth would Trump not want us to think about? Hmmmm.
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