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Sounds like Holden Bloodfeast has been trying but Trump doesn't care. He wants new territory and he's not going to get it from the desperate neocons in his cabinet trying to bomb Iran or fight Russia lol.
Got to hand it to him, he does know that the easiest way is going to be from the weak and pathetic EU.
I think at some point someone put the idea in his head that all the "greatest" presidents conquered territory for the US, and so he is convinced he needs to do that as well and refuses to back down.
Or it could be a push and pull between different factions, some who recognise that the US cannot continue as it is without more resources, and some that would rather just not rock the boat and continue stripping the copper from the walls.
Dude wants to put another star on the flag
If that’s all it were, it’d be easy:
Boom, 11 columns of 5 so the new flag won’t even look too different.
Just rename them, problem solved!
I prefer the Gulf of Mexico approach.
If anyone ever mixes them up they're fired
Maybe for some of them, but I can’t imagine a complete lack of vanity in the renaming. Maybe just make Puerto Rico “Donald Trump’s Port of Making America Great” and keep the rest like you’ve got them?
Greenland is not white enough to be a state. It is majority indigenous. The population is also very small.
Maybe they think they can flood it with white settlers but there's good material reasons why it is so sparsely populated.
That's got to be it, right? It's just so fucking weird and random how badly he wants that place.
On a Mercator map it's bigger than the USA. I don't think he's able to understand what a 3km ice sheet means for mineral extraction, and he's lived inside a solid gold echo chamber his whole life so I don't think he knows what polar climates are able to support in terms of agriculture or general habitability. I think he's looking at maps and seeing a really big piece of land basically next door and he wants to be immortalized
He didn't see the meme that explained how Greenland is ice and Iceland is green.
i think he needs to be reminded that getting people killed will send him to hell
trump has map painting brain rot, somebody show him eu4
Wake up grandpa, EU5 released.
Everybody knows the new game sucks for at least two years, you're streets behind
eu5 isn’t the map painting simulator eu4 is though. trumps monkey brain “make name big on map” mindset is better suited to eu4
Honestly just show him a Greenland that isn't warped by the Mercator projection and he'd probably drop it
I won't hand it to him if he doesn't invade mainland €ur𖦏p€.