On finding it was true, I laughed it off as something so absurd I couldn't spend the time to shoot down the various ways it was absurd.

Then I saw that Trump cancelled (or "postponed" the meeting with the Danish Prime Minister because she was "nasty" when she denied his offer to purchase Greenland. She had said it was an "absurd discussion".

Trump says she was being nasty for calling the offer absurd:

"Don't say what an absurd idea that is," Trump said. "She's not talking to me, she's talking to the United States of America."

"I thought it was not a nice statement, the way she blew me off, because she was blowing off the United States,"

I'm fascinated to know what the usual Trump defenders here have to say. Should the Prime Minister have politely refused the offer to buy an autonomous part of her country? Should she have <I>agreed</I> to the offer? Or is this one of those cases where the media pays too much attention to what Trump says and is making a big deal about nothing?