Day 938: WSJ: Trump wants to buy Greenland. Wait, what?

It’s as absurd as it comical: Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

The idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland has captured the former real-estate developer’s imagination, according to people familiar with the discussions, who said Mr. Trump has, with varying degrees of seriousness, repeatedly expressed interest in buying the ice-covered autonomous Danish territory between the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

In meetings, at dinners and in passing conversations, Mr. Trump has asked advisers whether the U.S. can acquire Greenland, listened with interest when they discuss its abundant resources and geopolitical importance and, according to two of the people, has asked his White House counsel to look into the idea.

Trump’s aides are actually split on whether to use valuable resources and man hours on the pipe dream.

Some of his advisers have supported the concept, saying it was a good economic play, two of the people said, while others dismissed it as a fleeting fascination that will never come to fruition. It is also unclear how the U.S. would go about acquiring Greenland even if the effort were serious.

Trump has a million things that he should be worrying about: a trade war with China, North Korea continuing to develop weapons, health care, guns, the national debt, national security, white supremacists, election security, climate change, conflicts in the Middle East and plenty more.

Instead, he’s focused on golf and absurd dreams like buying Greenland.

938 days in, 524 to go

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