President Donald Trump goes to make the folks Greenland wholesome once more, whether or not they prefer it or not.
However first he should take care of Iran.
In the meantime, he’s planning to ship one of many nation’s U.S. Navy hospital ships to Greenland to make all people wholesome although no person requested for it.
Properly, nearly no person.
In accordance with the Wall Road Journal, Jergen Boassen, 52, a Greenland bricklayer and supporter of Trump, requested for it. Boassen helped manage Donald Trump Jr.’s prior go to to the island coveted by the president.
Boassen introduced the matter of Greenland’s “deteriorating” well being care system up with Republican Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, who’s Trump’s Greenland envoy.
Landry talked about it to Trump, who has eyes on Greenland, and Trump stated that assist for the folks “was on the way in which,” although Greenland and Denmark stated that Greenland doesn’t need or want any assist.
Trump stated, “We’re going to ship a terrific hospital boat to Greenland to handle the various people who find themselves sick and never being taken care of there. “It’s on the way in which.”
To which Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielson stated, “No thanks. It’s no thanks from right here.”
The U.S. Navy has two nicely manned hospital ships, the united statesComfort and the united statesMercy, each of which have been deployed coping with medical fallout from the COVID 19 outbreak in New York, the invasion of Iraq, hurricanes within the Caribbean and medical emergencies in South America and so forth.
Greenlanders have free common well being care, similar to it’s, however folks usually have issue getting access to it given the island’s huge dimension and rugged geography. The care from a US hospital ship could be free as nicely.
Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. It runs its personal inner affairs, however Denmark controls its overseas coverage.
It has solely 56,000 inhabitants residing on the huge and icy expanse, lots of whom dwell in distant components of the island and will have psychological in addition to medical points.
But when Trump actually wished to assist folks with psychological issues, he would launch a type of hospital ships, staffed with psychologists, up the Potomac River to Washington D.C.
There can’t be anybody in Greenland in want of psychological assist greater than the half-crazed Democrats in Congress.
Given their response to his speech to Congress Tuesday night time, it’s clear that Trump has pushed the left over the sting.
The president has proven that the Democrat Celebration is so improper and impolite on so many points that it has misplaced it its approach. It’s as if its half-crazed, out of contact leaders have been residing in a distant fishing shack in an unnamed icy inlet in Greenland.
It isn’t their fault, although. That’s as a result of it’s Trump who has pushed them loopy.
A hospital ship in Washington might deal with Democrats who’ve sunken so low that they’re diminished to solely two phrases, (*&%#$ Trump”) when speaking in regards to the president.
Trump has turned their brains to mush.
However Trump, who was tormented a lot by the Democrats throughout his first time period and particularly when he was out of energy, is having fun with baiting the left an excessive amount of to bail them out.
A superb instance of that, throughout his speech, was on unlawful immigration when he taunted the Democrats by asking in the event that they agreed that “The primary responsibility of the American authorities is to guard Americans, not unlawful aliens.”
Whereas Trump acquired a standing ovation from the Republicans and others within the Home chamber, not one of the Democrats stood up. None, zero, nada.
“Isn’t {that a} disgrace?” he stated. “You ought to be ashamed.”
However they weren’t. He known as them loopy, which they’re.
And that’s the reason they need assistance, whether or not they prefer it or not.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas might be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
Matias Delacroix/ Related Press file
The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Consolation docks on the Cristobal port, operated by the Panama Ports Firm, in Colon, Panama, in June final yr. (AP Picture/Matias Delacroix, File)
