Sen. John Fetterman first congressional Dem set to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago, jokes about being Pope of Greenland
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has agreed to meet President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate — making him the first congressional Democrat to accept such an invite — as he joked to reporters that he demands to be made “Pope of Greenland.”
“I think that one, he’s the president, or he will be officially,” Fetterman, 55, told CBS News, which was the first to report on the upcoming meeting.
“And I think it’s pretty reasonable that if the president would like to have a conversation — or invite someone to have a conversation — to have it. And no one is my gatekeeper,” the 6-foot-8 Pennsylvania senator known for frequently donning gym shorts in the halls of Congress bluntly told the outlet.
Fetterman said he’s a senator for all Pennsylvanians and it would be a “conversation” with Trump.
“I’m angling to be named the Pope of Greenland,” Fetterman later told reporters on Capitol Hill, referring to the incoming commander in chief’s desire to annex the ice-covered Danish territory.
It is unclear when he and Trump will have their sitdown.
Fetterman was once a part of the progressive flank of the Democratic Party but has been brazen with his commitment to speaking his mind in recent months.
He’s been an unapologetic defender of Israel and was candid about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) influence over President Biden dropping out of the 2024 race.
In this aerial view, former U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen on September 14, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. 3
“I think it’s pretty reasonable that if the president would like to have a conversation — or invite someone to have a conversation — to have it,” Fetterman said of his upcoming meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
“I am not the senator for just Democrats in Pennsylvania, I’m everyone’s senator,” he told reporters about the upcoming conservation with Trump, 78.
Democrats have increasingly been friendly toward Trump since his historic re-election — despite previously calling him a “threat to Democracy” and some even comparing him to Hitler.
Democratic DC Mayor Muriel Bowser said she had a “great” meeting with the president-elect about policies concerning the nation’s capital in December.
Foreign leaders and tech CEOs have frolicked to Palm Beach to dine with Trump and have donated millions to his inauguration fund.
Trump was also seen chumming with former President Barack Obama, at the funeral for late former President Jimmy Carter, with the two smiling and laughing together.
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