Fox's Ari Fleischer Compares Trump to Henry VIII, Who Wanted Scotland the Same Way Trump Wants Greenland'

"I think it's going to be a very good deal for the United States [and] also for them, and we're going to work together with something to do with the Arctic as a whole, but also Greenland, the president told CNBC while attending the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. Despite a complete lack of specifics, conservative media hailed Trump's concept of a deal (which may or may not be as advanced as his concepts of a plan regarding healthcare)."

"Now, there's so much to be defined here. And a lot of this is classic Donald Trump negotiating status. He goes in, the bull in the china shop. People think he's gonna use force. Then, when he takes that off the table, they're all like, Phew, ok.' And then he declares a fait accompli, and they look like the bad guys for getting in the way of the fait accompli that he declared today. That's classic Trump negotiating style."

"It's kinda cool, though, Larry Kudlow replied. It's funny. All the Europeans had so many bad things to say about him in the last few days, really nasty, bad things, and then he shows up in Davos and says, I wanna have meetings,' and they all come rushing in to have meetings with him. Fleischer responded by comparing Trump's Greenland ambitions with England's invasion of Scotland in the 1540s: There's a historical analogy to this. And it was called King Henry VIII"

President Donald Trump announced a concept of a deal for Greenland while attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, offering no specifics. He said the arrangement would be a very good deal for both the United States and Denmark and tied the proposal to broader Arctic cooperation. A 1951 U.S.-Denmark agreement already allows increased U.S. military presence on Greenland, but Trump demanded formal possession of the island. Conservative media praised the concept despite the lack of details. Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer described Trump’s approach as classic Trump negotiating and likened it to King Henry VIII's 1540s invasion of Scotland.

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