In August 2018, before a disaster recovery visit to Puerto Rico, Trump asked aides if they could just trade the island for Greenland outright, explaining that he wanted to do so "because Puerto Rico was dirty and the people were poor," according to one of the aides present.
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Peter Baker
Trump's interest in buying Greenland was seen as a joke in his first term but in fact it was a constant ambition fueled by his friend Ron Lauder and led to a serious set of options including a lease-purchase agreement, as we reported in "The Divider." @sbg1.bsky.social
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We can explain a lot of his actions, but not this.