Some MAGA Home Republicans gathered on the Kennedy Center this week to slice up a cake of Greenland lined by an American flag to have a good time President Donald Trump’s threats to annex the Arctic island ― even by drive.
The president backed down from his menacing tone on Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland, however the distasteful stunt lingered on social media.
In a single clip, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), alongside Rep. Andy Ogles (Tenn.), plunges the knife into the cake for the ceremonial first slice. “We lower it!” she stated.
The half-baked antics drew the ire of Antoine Bondaz, who works on an advisory service for the European Fee, according to LinkedIn.
“That is how some within the US view Greenland and its folks—as a cake to be lower up and shared with smiles and laughter,” he wrote on X. “Sorry, however that is deeply disrespectful and albeit pathetic.”
George Simion, a hard-right nationalist who modeled his marketing campaign after Trump in shedding the Romanian election for president in Might, was additionally available to chop the cake.
“We can be there for all of the free folks on this planet,” Simion stated. Because the clip cuts out, he is also heard commenting about having to “do away with” French President Emmanuel Macron, who has been important of Trump’s aggression.
Trump had threatened to punish European nations that didn’t get in keeping with his Greenland quest by implementing 10% tariffs on them. However he backed off on Wednesday amid an obvious answer. The president stated he had arrived on the “framework of a future deal” for the USA’ position in Greenland.
Trump’s announcement prompted Luna to suggest one other Greenland cake occasion.
“In gentle of latest developments I can be ordering a Greenland cake and alluring members of the press to come back lower it with me to have a slice in celebration,” she wrote.
