Donald Trump may soon be jetting off to either the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or the United Kingdom for his first foreign visit as he doubles down on claims he is ‘going to have’ Greenland.
The President told reporters aboard the Air Force One on Saturday he may visit the Middle Eastern country or Britain soon.
‘Could be Saudi Arabia. Could be UK. Traditionally, it’s been UK,’ he revealed.
‘Last time I went to Saudi Arabia because they agreed to buy four, $50billion worth of United States merchandise, including a lot of military equipment and farm equipment and other equipment. And if that offer were right, I’d do that again.’
When asked if he would get along with Prime Minster Keir Starmer and his government, Trump expressed confidence and said they will call this weekend.
‘I’ve met him already three times. He’s come over to see me twice. I have a call. He and I have a call over the next 24 hours. Now I get along with him, well, I like him a lot. He’s liberal, which is a little bit different for me, but I think he’s a very good person.
‘I think he’s done a very good job thus far. He’s doing the job… but he’s represented his country in terms of his philosophy.
‘I may not agree with his philosophy, but I have a very good relationship with him. I’ve seen him twice at dinner with him in Trump Tower, as you probably know.’
Donald Trump told reporters aboard the Air Force One that he may soon be jetting off to either Saudi Arabia or the UK for his first foreign visit
President Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One en route to Florida at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on Saturday
‘Last time I went to Saudi Arabia because they agreed to buy four, $50 billion worth of United States merchandise, including a lot of military equipment and farm equipment and other equipment,’ Trump (pictured with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman in Riyadh in 2017) said
Talking about his interest in acquiring Greenland and his heated conversation with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, President Trump noted that he has not been dissuaded and believes that the citizens ‘want to be with us’.
‘It’s just a tone of you question every time. I think Wheelan will be worked out with us. I think we’re going to have it. And I think the people want to be with us. As you know, there’s 55,000 people there.
‘They want to be with us. I don’t know really what claim Denmark has to but it would be a very unfriendly act if they didn’t allow that to happen because it’s that’s for protection of the free world. It’s not for us. It’s for the free world right now.
‘You have Russian chips, you have China chips, you have ships from various countries. It’s not a good situation. And I believe we’ll get that, yeah, I do believe, I think we’ll get other things too, that you.
‘Talking about that. Nobody knows. But I think we’ll get other other things. But I do believe Greenland will get because it really has to do with freedom of the world, not just freedom of it has nothing to do with the United States, other than we’re the one that can provide the freedom.
‘They can’t. They can’t. I mean, they they put two dog sleds there two weeks ago. They thought that was protection.
When asked if he would get along with Labour Prime Minster Keir Starmer (pictured) and his government, the President expressed confidence and said they will be speaking on call over the weekend
President Trump also told DailyMail.com that sensationally firing 17 Inspector Generals on January 25 was a ‘very standard thing to do’
During the call, Frederiksen was unyielding and reportedly cited Greenland’s Parliament, which had unequivocally declared that the island was ‘not for sale’
President Donald Trump and late Queen Elizabeth II make a toast during a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace during his first term
‘The people don’t like the way they’ve been treated by Denmark. I don’t like the way they’ve been treated by Denmark, and they do like us.’
President Trump also told DailyMail.com that sensationally firing 17 Inspector Generals on January 25 late in the night was a ‘very standard thing to do’.
‘Because it’s a very common thing to do, and not all of them, Michael Horowitz were keeping I thought his report on Comey was incredible, actually, such an accurate, well done report.
‘I only wish Bill Barr used it, which he chose not to, but it was, it was an incredible report. Michael Horowitz wrote the definitive report on James Comey and the FBI, and really got that going.
‘And I understand that this wasn’t really, I don’t I don’t know them, but some people thought that some were unfair, or some were not doing the job. And it’s a very standard thing to do, very much like the US attorneys.’
He also mentioned that he wishes to change the colors of Air Force One from baby blue to power blue as it is ‘much more appropriate’.
This comes hours after the Chairperson for Inspector generals has hit back at Donald Trump‘s mass firing of government watchdogs, claiming the move is ‘not legally sufficient’ in a strongly-worded letter.
‘It’s a widespread massacre. Whoever Trump puts in now will be viewed as loyalists, and that undermines the entire system,’ one of the unnamed fired agents told the Washington Post.
President Donald Trump’s administration fired the independent inspectors general of more than a dozen major government agencies late on Friday
Hannibal ‘Mike’ Ware, Chairperson of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, soon challenged the decisionsaid their firing is ‘not legally sufficient’ in a strongly-worded letter
But soon after Hannibal ‘Mike’ Ware, Chairperson of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, challenged the decision in a thinly-veiled threating letter.
Addressed to Sergio Gor, Head of the Presidential Personnel Office, Ware, wrote: ‘I am writing in response to your email sent to me and other Inspectors General earlier this evening wherein you informed each of us that ‘due to changing priorities, your position as Inspector General . . . is terminated, effective immediately.
‘As Chairperson of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), I recommend that you reach out to White House Counsel to discuss your intended course of action.
‘At this point, we do not believe the actions taken are legally sufficient to dismiss Presidentially Appointed, Senate Confirmed Inspectors General.’
The January 24 document further cites the 2022 amendments to the Inspector General Act of 1978 – which state that the president must notify Congress 30 days prior to removing IGs.
Both Republican and Democrat lawmakers were left in disarray and said that the President may have broken a federal law requiring Congress to be given 30-day notice of such firings, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Earlier on Saturday, Democrats from 21 House committees signed a joint letter to defend the independence of the watchdogs and pointed out that removing them without notifying Congress violates the law.
‘Firing inspectors general without due cause is antithetical to good government, undermines the proper stewardship of taxpayer dollars, and degrades the federal government’s ability to function effectively and efficiently,’ the letter reads.
‘We urge you to withdraw your unlawful action and comply with your obligations to the American people.’
Ronald Reagan fired all existing IGs when he took office in 1981, but he later reinstated half of them following an intense backlash.
