The joke online petition is a response to Donald Trump’s repeated — and rebuffed — demands to purchase Greenland from Denmark.

“We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood, bike lanes to Beverly Hills, and organic smørrebrød to every street corner,” the petition states. “Rule of law, universal health care and fact based politics might apply.”

California, which has around six-and-a-half times the population of Denmark, would be renamed “New Denmark”, it adds.

The petition is accompanied by a crowdfunder aiming to raise “$1 trillion (give or take a few billion)” to fund the purchase.

The organisers said: “That’s just 200,000 kroner from every Dane. Skip a few lattes, and you’re golden.”