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I think the main reason Trump wants Greenland is because it looks larger than the entire US on a flat map and he forgot the Earth is actually round.
Funny, and sadly too plausible.
Damn you, Mercator!
If only. I bet it's because it's got a decent crop of rare earth metals.
He might even be thinking it's a good place to set up his future gulags; isolated and icy and remote. His own little Siberia.