Trump Wanted to Swap Puerto Rico for Greenland

[RandySF]

Former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor confirmed to MSNBC that President Trump inquired about “selling” Puerto Rico.

Said Taylor: “He wanted to see if we could sell Puerto Rico, ‘could we swap Puerto Rico for Greenland,’ because, in his words, ‘Puerto Rico was dirty and the people were poor.'”


https://politicalwire.com/2020/08/19/trump-wanted-to-swap-puerto-rico-for-greenland/

[Brainfodder]

1. Meanwhile, we'd be happy to have anyone take Orange away for the next 6 months?

...and forget to return him!

Don't be too nice!

[Moostache]

2. WTF? Reality is NOT fucking a game of Monopoly...

I AGAIN renew my daily prayers for his immediate demise and death by natural causes while seated on the toilet and tweeting like a 12 year old girl angry at her bestie for telling her crush about her feels...

[mr_lebowski]

7. Word ... I pray for his immediate demise by natural causes multiple times per day ...

I would literally go dance in my street.

[First Speaker]

3. I wish I could say, "I don't believe it"...

...but no--this is just the sort of "idea" that would occur to Moron-in-Chief. We are beyond satire...

[unblock]

4. Gdp of Puerto Rico is over 30 times the gdp of Greenland

100 billion vs maybe 3 billion.

[mr_lebowski]

8. You missed the important part ... the people in Greenland are for the most part ...

Not Brown.

[GulfCoast66]

11. Actually almost 90% of Greenlanders are Inuit...

But trump has no clue of that fact. So your point is valid.

[mr_lebowski]

15. Well, they aren't Dirty Mexicans or Lazy Black Folk (his thinking not mine)

And he probably 'knows that'.

And that's what's most important.

He also probably thinks Greenland will turn out to be like Alaska when all the ice melts ... buncha oil under it.

[unblock]

13. Duh, they're obviously green!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Not quite - 90% of the people of Greenland are Inuit.

The remaining 10% are mostly Danes, which I guess would be OK with Trump except that they don't like him either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Greenland

[mr_lebowski]

17. I'z already corrected and responded above ...

Hi VO

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Hey, no matter. As you correctly noted,

they're not Latinx or Black, so he'd take them, at least until he found out they weren't white either.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. So maybe Denmark would actually *like* to have Puerto Rico -

30 x Greenland's gdp, and it's a nice warm vacation spot for people from a cold country. And if PR had another hurricane at least Mette Frederiksen wouldn't throw paper towels at them and call it good.

[malaise]

24. How would that fucking dunce know that

Damn he disgusts me

[unblock]

25. he doesn't care, wouldn't care.

he thinks it's an upgrade based on skin color alone.

"damn he disgusts me" is right.

[malaise]

26. Precisely

Clearly he doesn't know Greenland. My oldest sibling lived there for five years.

[Iliyah]

5. Hey, he wanted to lunch a nuclear bomb into . . .

hurricanes.

[abqtommy]

6. Actually, U.S. history has plenty of land deals like The Louisiana Purchase and the purchase

of Alaska from Russia. Then of course there's the acquisition of land through warfare, like the Mexican
War of 1848 or the War with Spain in 1898. What we've never had is an idiot like tRUMP...

[Happy Hoosier]

9. Those happened in an era of colonialism...

Very different.

[Retrograde]

30. IIRC, those required a treaty

which meant the approval of 2/3 of the Senate. Presidents just can't decide to go in for these kinds of real estate deals on their own say-so.

[abqtommy]

31. That applies here in the Real World but not in tRUMP World. He don't need no stinking treaty!

All he needs is his buddies Barr and McConnel who I hope will be joining Bannon soon...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. I suggested this in a post a few weeks ago in a lame attempt at humor.

Holy crap, our worst jokes are coming true.

[FM123]

12. 'Puerto Rico was dirty and the people were poor.'

Just the words that the one million Puerto Ricans that live in swing state Florida like to hear, right? Trump forgets that Puerto Ricans are Americans and once they reside in any of the 50 states (like FL) they are eligible to VOTE. Adios Trump.

[dalton99a]

14. The motherfucker has treated the United States like his personal property since day one

[chriscan64]

19. Miles Taylor needs his own daily segment on some show.

One of these examples everyday featured, I'm sure there are at least 77 of them.

[Chainfire]

21. If we are going to sell anything off

Lets see what Mexico would give us for Texas! Anything over about $200.00, and I would be all over the deal.

[Disaffected]

22. Trump was interested because of

a literal interpretation of the "Green". If the place was called Brown, Snow or Coldland, he likely would not have been interested.

In any case, just another example of Trump's idiocy.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

27. Always the simpleton

[apnu]

28. Who was he going to sell Puerto Rico to and who was he going to buy Greenland from?

Trump is insane.

[scarytomcat]

29. and a player to be named later

???