Aug. 29, 2019
By Bill McCann
When I read recently that President Donald Trump had his staff study the idea of the U.S. acquiring Greenland, I checked twice to make sure it wasn’t a satirical article from the online publication The Onion.
Then I remembered that what Trump says and does is often wackier than The Onion’s funny fake news, like when Trump said climate change is a Chinese hoax; when his response to Puerto Ricans who had just survived a killer hurricane was to throw paper towels at them; when he promised to build a southern border wall and make Mexico pay for it; and when he insisted he would have won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election if millions of people hadn’t voted illegally.
Whether buying Greenland is another Trump tactic to divert attention from real issues, or just another of his off-the-wall ideas, he may have a point.
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