The Week contest: Taking Greenland

This week's question: President Trump's interest in buying Greenland from Denmark has been rebuffed, with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen calling the idea of a sale "absurd." If the U.S. were to somehow acquire Greenland, what new name should Trump give the vast, glacier-covered island?
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THE WINNER: "MAGAgascar"
Art Rodia, Southbury, Connecticut
SECOND PLACE: "Brrr-a-Lago"
John Pruitt, Atlanta
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THIRD PLACE: "Donmark"
Lori Dodd, Browerville, Minnesota
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Meltania"
John Holler, St. Cloud, Minnesota
"Bigly Island"
Kim Doyle, Woolwich, Maine
"Ice-vanka"
Ken Burger, Austin, Texas
"Far-a-Lago"
George Pendergast, Weston, Massachusetts
"Scandalnavia"
Phyllis Klein, New York City
"Drill-and-Krill Land"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh
"Greenbackland"
Jennifer Kitchin, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
"Tweetland"
Jim Conley, Rockford, Illinois
"Mar-a-Lo-Floe"
Christopher Leggette, Robbinsville, New Jersey
"Melting Plot"
Nancy DiGaudio, Discovery Bay, California
"Snowklahoma"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
"Kanye East"
John Parry, Eldersburg, Maryland
"Covfefeland"
Nathaniel Burkins, Athens, Georgia
"Paradise Frost"
Dan Larkin, St. Paul, Minnesota
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