Since a Danish explorer discovered Alaska, former Belgian PM and current MEP, Guy Verhofstadt, has mockingly proposed an exchange to Donald Trump, swapping Greenland for the US state.
“Perhaps an exchange could be explored?” Verhofstadt wrote on Twitter. He argued that Dane Vitus Bering was the first to discover what later became the 49th US state.
Trump's behaviour is ridiculous. Bering, a Danish explorer, discovered Alaska. Perhaps an exchange could be explored?😂
Bering, who at that time was actually serving in the Russian Empire as a navy officer, was one of the first Europeans to lead an expedition to Alaska in the mid-eighteenth century, although another Russian expedition reached it almost a decade before him.Verhofstadt omitted those details in his Tweet. Perhaps he thought that wasn’t important or the limit of 280 words barred him from saying anything about Russia.
However he did manage to add, in the same tweet, that Trump has “once again” shown that he “has no respect for his allies,” by offering to buy Greenland from NATO ally Denmark.
