Danish Prime Minister Squashes Lindsey Graham’s Sexist Remark Like the Little Bug He Is

As if MAGA’s madcap appetite for Greenland didn’t already reek of jingoist douchery, over the weekend, at the Munich Security Conference, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) reportedly embarrassed himself (and the United States) during a meeting with world leaders after he threw a sexist tantrum and called the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen a “little lady.” 

The meltdown took place during a meeting between lawmakers, Frederiksen, and Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen on Saturday afternoon at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel, which was scheduled to discuss Trump’s repeated threats to annex Greenland, a Danish territory. It was initially reported by Puck News on Monday, which wrote that “Graham completely unloaded on both prime ministers.” According to sources who were in the meeting, Graham was “combative” and threw out “lots of F-bombs.” “Picture Graham on his worst TV day,” one source said. The outlet also reported that Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) got so upset she had to leave the meeting. 

But birds of a MAGA feather are sexist together. In January, Trump confirmed he raised tariffs on Switzerland because the country’s woman finance minister annoyed him; earlier this month told a CNN reporter to “smile” more; and in November told another reporter, “Quiet, piggy.”

Graham’s spectacle came a day after he told reporters, “Who gives a shit who owns Greenland?” (Evidently, everyone in MAGA?) “The point is Greenland is going to be more fortified because Donald Trump, once he feels like it’s his brand or his buy-in, is going to go big.”

Trump’s fantasies of owning slash buying Greenland have become a big flashpoint on the international stage, and the president recently appeared to float using military force to seize it before finally backing down in January, saying instead that he’s reached a “framework” of a NATO deal regarding the entire Arctic region. But at the conference, Frederiksen said, “I think the desire from the US president [to take Greenland] is exactly the same. He’s very serious about this.”

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