FYI
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/about-face-monday-january-19-2026
---- 买格绫兰只是川普抄历史上两党总统的作业而已。其实川普所做的绝大部份事都是抄作业（有历史先列）。只不过有的前人作业没完成，或做得不到家。有的是相同的作业，只因是川普，就被双标的主媒垢病，比如驱逐非法移民，奥巴马时期驱逐的范围比川普到目前为止更广更多，也不见左媒怎么批评。
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The media treats Trump’s idea of buying Greenland as some sort of drug-induced brainstorm. But it’s not new. In fact, Trump is the fourth president to try to buy the Arctic island. The first was Democrat Andrew Johnson (1865–1869), fresh off his successful purchase of Alaska from the Russians for two cents an acre. Johnson promptly sent Secretary of State William H. Seward —who’d brokered the Alaska deal— to Denmark, to try to buy Greenland. But the sale fell through.
Back then, critics curled their collective lips and contemptuously called Alaska, “Seward’s Folly.” What do we need all that useless ice for? History.com
Next up was William Howard Taft (R, 1909–1913). In 1910, Taft’s administration proposed a complicated land-exchange deal that would have transferred Greenland to the U.S. in exchange for concessions in other territories. But again, the deal went phut.
In 1946, after World War II and amid emerging Cold War tensions, Democrat President Harry S. Truman tried again, formally offering Denmark $100 million in gold (worth about $14 billion today) for Greenland, citing its military importance, but Denmark rejected the offer.
President Trump first mentioned buying Greenland during Trump 1.0, so it’s not even a new idea for him. But don’t rely on the Nation’s “paper of record” to remind you about any of this bipartisan Greenland history. Haha, that would be informative. And, well, you know: Orange man bad!
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