At first, Trump's proposal [to purchase Greenland] had elicited incredulity and humour from politicians in Denmark, with former Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen saying: "It must be an April Fool's Day joke." But the mood shifted to bewilderment following the US president's decision to scrap the September 2-3 visit.
Writing on Twitter, former Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said the US president's comments were "deeply insulting to the people of Greenland and Denmark".
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Morten Ostergaard, leader of the Social Liberal Party, said: "Reality transcends imagination. It shows, more than ever, why we should consider the EU countries our greatest allies."
Rasmus Jarlov, a member of the opposition Conservative Party, said Trump should "show more respect", while simultaneously voicing his disbelief over the plans.
"Are parts of the US for sale? Alaska?" he wrote.
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Greenlandic politician Aaja Chemnitz Larsen said: "Good that Denmark has rejected Circus Trump".
Both the current and former leaders of the Danish People's Party, Kristian Thulesen Dahl and Pia Kjaersgaard, called out Trump, too.
Thulesen Dahl described the incident as a "farce", while Kjaersgaard said Trump's behaviour was "rude".
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The trip to Denmark was part of a European tour that included a visit to Poland. Trump is still expected to visit Poland from August 31.
"Does anyone out there know if the government in Poland has definitively refused the US takeover of northern Poland?" Soren Espersen, a member of the Danish People's Party, asked jokingly.
"Otherwise, watch out for Warsaw when @realDonaldTrump lands, because he is - after the Greenland fiasco - roaring hungry in search of a new Arctic," he wrote on Twitter.
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Twitter users in the Netherlands, meanwhile, offered to buy back Manhattan from the US. Manhattan was once a colonial Dutch trading post which came under the control of the British in the 17th century.
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