One day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea. “Trump called me down to the Oval Office,” John Bolton, national security adviser in 2018, told the Guardian. “He said a prominent businessman had just suggested the US buy Greenland.”
It was an extraordinary proposal. And it originated from a longtime friend of the president who would go on to acquire business interests in the Danish territory.
The businessman, Bolton learned, was Ronald Lauder. Heir to a makeup fortune – the global cosmetics brand Estée Lauder – he had known Trump, a fellow wealthy New Yorker, for more than 60 years.
Bolton said he discussed the Greenland proposition with Lauder. After the billionaire’s intervention, a White House team began to explore ways to increase US sway in the vast Arctic territory controlled by Denmark.
Trump’s renewed pursuit of Lauder’s idea during his second term is typical of how the president operates, Bolton said. “Bits of information that he hears from friends, he takes them as truth and you can’t shake his opinion.”
These are the brands he owns, so you might avoid buying them:
Cosmetics
AERIN Beauty Bobbi Brown Clinique DECIEM by Brandon Truaxe Dr. Jart+ Estée Lauder GLAMGLOW La Mer Lab Series MAC Cosmetics Origins Darphin Paris Smashbox Too Faced[42] Tom Ford Beauty Fragrance Aramis Kilian Paris Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle Jo Malone London Le LaboHaircare
Aveda Bumble and bumbleI knew someone planted the seed in his head to invade. Trump is too dumb and vacuous to have curiosity about somewhere as random as Greenland. A couple mega wealthy nepo babies bonding over their rapacious greed. How cute!
He’s also the kind of Dump Ape that is so avaricious that he looks at a map, and says “That’s big, I want it.” And I have heard multiple reports that is pretty much how it happened. Everything else is just rationalization. Also, Bolton is as much a scumbag as Trump.
Also Ghengis Don doesn’t know what a Mercator Projection is, and if he’d heard of it, he wouldn’t understand it. But, for reals, he’s never heard of it.
He’s using the murica-tor projection.
JFC he looks JUST as evil as he is!!
Of course Lauder is connected to Epstein too.
Lauder: You don’t have a micropenis. Can you invade Greenland?
The Rapist: Say it once more and Greenscape is yours.
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What an absolute ghoul.
A ghoul who will suffer no consequences, because while Europe is sending parade units to flex on the beaches of Qeqertarsuaq this asshole is allowed to continue operating Estée Lauder across the continent.
If he were Russian, he’d be drowning under sanctions right now. Instead, the guy gets to bait the US into the worst Intra-NATO conflict since Cyprus and pocket a windfall no questions asked.
Think it’s also a way to get rich. My husband told me military and defense related stocks went up (he’s tracking politician trading)
I haven’t followed myself but can believe that.
I wouldn’t take the word of John Bolton as worth anything more than toilet paper. I think the Peter Thiel connection to Greenland is much more worth discussion, and it’s the main reason why Vance is VP.
Both threads of reasoning can be true simultaneously; the veracity of one doesn’t negate the veracity of the other.
Normally true, but again, John Bolton. I’d probably trust him on mustache upkeep though.
He doesn’t really have a reason to lie about it. What would be the point?
How well do you know who John Bolton is?
I know he’s a right-wing asshole. But seriously, what would be his motive for lying about something like this? What would he gain? Maybe there’s an angle I hadn’t considered.
I can’t read his mind. As he said, coups aren’t easy. He puts the term “right wing asshole” to shame. He’s so bad, I’m surprised he doesn’t have a Nobel Peace Prize.
Wow I wasn’t aware of this angle. I was assuming it was all just technofascist acquisitions for Praxis, and the whole cult of Curtis Yarvin’s network state monarchy CEO idea (Peter Thiel who owns JD “Just Dance” Vance).
Let’s encourage Shitler to eat more hamberders…
Zero shock face :-|
