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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social
Jul 3, 07:11 PM

Haberman: When Trump looks at a map of the world, he sees a sphere of influence. He sees the hemisphere, the U.S., he sees Canada, he sees Central America, he sees Greenland. And he looks at it, frankly, from the perspective of a conqueror. He sees land that he thinks should belong to his country.

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"Those threats to annex Canada, Greenland as well, what sorts of sort of intonations did we get from the U.S. president about that? What you saw in public is what Trump was saying privately. You know, Trump, one of the things that we try to make clear in the book is that, you know, when Donald Trump looks at a map of the world, he sees a sphere of influence, he sees the hemisphere, the U.S., he sees Canada, he sees Central America, he sees, you know, Greenland, and he looks at it, frankly, from the perspective of a conqueror, and, you know, in some respects a real estate developer, he sees land that he thinks should belong to his country."

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · Jul 3, 03:57 PM

Haberman: When Trump looks at a map of the world, he sees a sphere of influence. He sees the hemisphere, the U.S., he sees Canada, he sees Central America, he sees Greenland. And he looks at it, frankly, from the perspective of a conqueror. He sees land that he thinks should belong to his country.