• ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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    23 days ago

    Trump has been trying to distract from his backpedaling on all of his campaign promises (massive & stupid tariffs, lowering grocery prices somehow, deporting like 1/4 of the population, etc) before he’s even been sworn in by saying he’s going to annex/buy/maybe conquer Greenland from Denmark. He’s also said this about Canada and sort of about Panama.

    The whole thing is a media stunt, but basically, he sent his son and a bunch of other ghouls (pictured in the OP) to Greenland to make an appearance for the media. They did, then they left. It was a fools’ errand and there were lots of fools to choose from.

    Edit: Confirmed: https://newrepublic.com/post/190070/donald-trump-jr-greenland-staged-homeless

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      24 days ago

      I like that he keeps saying Canada will become a new state of the United states like it’s not a larger land mass than the United states with multiple discrete provinces and territories.

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        There’s about 40 million ppl in Canada and about 38 million in California. I don’t support the idea but it’s not entirely insane for it to be one state.

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          24 days ago

          Apart from the whole being part of the USA thing. That’s insane. I just hope Canada’s right wing are not so craven as to want to sell out their country, but I don’t trust them.

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            22 days ago

            If I learned anything about rightwingers, it’s that most of them have no qualms whatsoever about selling out their own country.