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Wolfgang Hampel, author of the global success "Satire is my favorite animal": "I have a nightmare that is huge. Reality overtakes satire and I am unemployed!"----------------------------------- FOCUS online "Absurd": Republican proposes bizarre new name for Greenland Quirin Knospe • 2 hours • 2 minutes reading time Republican Representative Buddy Carter in front of the US Capitol, 2024. Re-elected US President Donald Trump continues to strive to buy Greenland and is receiving intra-party support from the US Congress. According to reports from the US news site "Axios", Republican Representative Buddy Carter has introduced a bill that supports efforts to buy the island. Republicans: Greenland should be called "Red, White and Blueland" The congressman from Georgia already has an initial idea of ​​what Greenland should be called after the takeover. If the draft goes ahead, "Greenland," as the island is called in English, will be renamed "Red, White and Blueland" after the colors of the US flag. The draft would empower Trump to begin negotiations on the purchase of the island and to implement the renaming. The draft law would also oblige the federal government to refer to it as such on official maps and documents. Donald Trump had already expressed his desire to buy the Danish island in 2019. Now, shortly after taking office again, he apparently wants to implement this idea. The autonomous Danish region is of strategic importance to the USA, especially in view of the threats from Russia and China, Trump emphasized. The strategically important island in the Arctic is rich in natural resources and is home to a US air force base. "President Trump has rightly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will proudly welcome its people to the freest nation ever when our chief negotiator signs this monumental agreement," Carter said in his statement. "America is back and will soon be bigger than ever, with the addition of Red, White and Blueland." Danish government rejects Trump's purchase wishes The Republican's proposal has already met with rejection in Danish politics. According to reports from "Politico", Danish MEP Anders Vistisen described it as unrealistic and "absurd". Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had already stressed in a 45-minute conversation with Donald Trump in January that Greenland was not for sale. According to media reports, the conversation took place before Trump's inauguration. Frederiksen stated that "Greenlanders have the right to determine their own future" and referred to statements by Greenland's Prime Minister Múte B. Egedes that it is up to Greenland to decide on its independence. Danes ironically propose buying California Meanwhile, in response to Trump's proposals, a group of Danish citizens have started a petition to buy California from the USA. So far, the petition has almost 210,000 supporters and the goal of raising a trillion dollars through crowdfunding. The initiators also propose renaming Disneyland "Hans Christian Andersenland" and bringing the Danish way of life "hygge" to Hollywood. The petition initiators also claim that Trump has called California "the most ruined state in the Union". They are offering the US president a "lifetime supply of organic smörrebröd" to make the deal more palatable to him.