How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory

What little donnie wants, donnie gets -- and you won't hear the end of it until he does or goes to prison, where he belongs with the other criminals, gangsters and traitors.



How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory

US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island

by Tom Burgis
The Guardian, January 15, 2026

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.

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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.”

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Like many of those around the president, Lauder’s policy suggestions appear to intersect with his business interests. As Trump has ratcheted up his threats to seize Greenland, Lauder has acquired commercial holdings there. Lauder is also part of the consortium whose desire to access Ukrainian minerals appears to have spurred Trump to demand a share of the war-torn country’s resources.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/ronald-lauder-billionaire-donor-donald-trump-ukraine-greenland

You're welcome. So's his old man.

Poppy Doc Bush lied America into Gulf War 1.



Anyone remember when Bush lied America into war on Iraq?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10026202003

When the nation refused to rally behind the George Herbert Walker Bush rationale for war on Iraq — “It’s not the oil, it’s WMDs” (the first time)!, the money trumps peace swells trotted out a “young Kuwaiti OB nurse,” who testified to Congress that she saw Saddam Hussein’s troops enter her hospital in Kuwait City and empty the incubators full of babies onto “the cold, hard floor” and then roll the incubators out the door and up the road to Baghdad, swear to Goodness. It was all a lie, as she, in reality, was the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Washington’s 15-year old daughter. Didn’t matter as Congress authorized war to restore the Kuwaiti royal family.

Of course… Poppy and Capitalism’s Invisible Army lied Saddam into making war in the first place.

Gulf War 1 -- April Glaspie Gives Green Light

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2748315&mesg_id=2753417

"Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."

Richard M. Nixon, the Crook, channeled by John Glover Roberts, the Traitor.

"Her undergarments are nice." -- Donald Trump referring to spouse Melania

In honor of the man who defunded federal support for the arts and named one of the nation's leading cultural institutions after himself, his own madness evinced through his own words...



President Donald Trump describes wife Melania's 'perfect panties' during FBI raid ramble

Melania maintains a fiercely private public persona, however, she will be the subject of a brand new Amazon documentary

Rebecca Lewis
HELLO!, December 20, 2025

(Pee-)resident Donald Trump shared intimate details of his wife's underwear during an appearance in North Carolina on Friday December 19. As the President discussed the country's inflation and his efforts to lower drug prices ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, he pivoted to instead reflect on the FBI raid of his Palm Beach, Florida resort in 2022.

"I had these animals trying to attack me at Mar-A-Lago, they went into my wife's closet," he told the crowds, adding: "She's a very meticulous person, you know – like these people [in the crowd], she'd fit into your group very well – but everything is perfect. Her undergarments are nice – sometimes referred to as panties – they are folded perfect, wrapped, so perfect".

"I think that she steams them," he then added.

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The warrant revealed that the FBI was looking for evidence that Trump had removed or destroyed records, obstructed justice or violated the Espionage Act. Eleven sets of classified documents, including some marked "top secret" that are only meant to be viewed at secure government facilities, were found at the resort.

Source: https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/874078/president-trump-describes-wife-melania-perfect-panties-fbi-raid-ramble/



Of all sources, useful history from HOLA! I mean, HELLO!

Do something to resist the sonofabitch.

Be like this guy:



https://www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-detroit-news/uaw-backs-suspended-ford-worker-condemns-trumps-vulgar-response/

He got his message through to the Pedophile Protector.

The Epstein Connection NO ONE Wants to Talk About

"The face is the index of the soul." -- Cicero

“Every man over forty is responsible for his face.” — Abraham Lincoln

Kidnapping is the word for it.

It's also a form of terrorism, using violence for political gain.

Good's SUV was in REVERSE when Ross reached for his gun - Resistor Vic

First he talks about the transparency of ICE n Homeland Security in sundry failures and then slows four seconds of ICE agent Ross' video down to show the guy was already reaching for his gun when Ms. Good was going in REVERSE.

Really? I referred to Thurgood Marshall.

Of course, I enjoy pointing out a good homonym now and again -- especially when it shows how the GOP is leading the United States of America into fascism.

From DU 2004:

Know your BFEE: Oliver North, Drug Dealer

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2396787

From Reply 11:

There is an important chapter on Oliver North in Out of Control, written by Leslie Cockburn with the assistance of other CBS personnel. That chapter discusses North's career from altar boy at Sacred Heart Church to the present, including his psychiatric treatment in 1974 after roaming around naked in a Virginia suburb brandishing a 45-caliber pistol, and his plan for suspension of the Constituion and the imposition of martial law. During the war in Vietnam, he returned to the United States to appear on William Buckley's TV show "Firing Line" to protest press coverage of the bloody My Lai massacre.

From DU 2005:

Know your BFEE: The Secret Government

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5027094

Readers may note several examples where I properly used the word "martial" to warn readers of the fascism GOP leadership was taking the United States of America.

I wouldn't want you to think I'm stupid or anything.