Trump thought Lars Løkke was King of Denmark

Posted on 29. May, 2017 in: News

When Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen gave Donald Trump a congratulatory telephone call last November the president-elect believed he was speaking to the king of Denmark.

The prime minister later described the 10-minute telephone conversation, during which he stressed Denmark’s close relationship to the United States, as ‘friendly and constructive’. Mr Rasmussen was also invited to Washington DC, which he accepted and was duly received at the White House in March. However, well-known US political blogger Yashar Ali has now revealed Mr Trump was under the impression he was talking to the king, not the prime minister, of Denmark.

In a series of tweets last week the journalist wrote that the ‘Trump NATO meeting reminds me of a story I was never authorized to share, until now’ and ‘this story was shared with me in December and confirmed by two high-level sources.’ He describes how Trump’s daughter in law Vanessa was in the Oval Office during the call and when she asked who the President was talking to he replied, ‘the king of Denmark’.

Responding to the story the ruling Liberals’ Jakob Engel-Schmidt said: “I now understand why the writers of House of Cards believe that reality is now stranger than fiction.”