Trumpland? Republic of Trump? North Trumpia?
U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources familiar with the matter.
While the exact dollar figure and logistics of any payment are unclear, U.S. officials, including White House aides, have discussed figures ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per person, said two of the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
The idea of directly paying residents of Greenland, an overseas territory of Denmark, offers one explanation of how the U.S. might attempt to “buy” the island of 57,000 people, despite authorities’ insistence in Copenhagen and Nuuk that Greenland is not for sale.
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One of the sources familiar with White House deliberations said the internal discussions regarding lump sum payments were not necessarily new. However, that person said, they had gotten more serious in recent days, and aides were entertaining higher values, with a $100,000-per-person payment – which would result in a total payment of almost $6 billion – a real possibility.
Six billion for Greenland. Reimbursement for any oil companies’ investments in Venezuela and untold billions for the occupation. An extra half trillion for the military, which is already budgeted for a trillion in this year’s budget. Over a hundred seventy billion more for DHS (more than the entire budget for the U.S. Marines corps.) Pretty soon we’ll be talking about real money.
Meanwhile, Trump and his friends and family are swallowing a firehouse full of corrupt money.
I heard the price of eggs is down, though. So it’s all good.