“Take over the world” might be a bit of hyperbole. I’m talking mostly about his desire to take over Greenland, to take back Panama, to annex Canada, to be put in charge of Palestine, etc. Of course, this too is Trump trying to enrich himself; how many Trump properties would end up being built in Greenland if the US ended up with it? How much would shipping companies pay him in kickbacks if he took the Panama Canal and offered them priority passage? How much money would he and his cadre make by decreasing regulation in Canada, or getting access to Canadian oil fields? And, of course, you’ve already heard of his plan for the “Palestinian Riviera.”
He wants to “take over the world” in the sense that he wants to rule over more swaths of land and extract the value from them, and in the sense that he wants to tell Keir Starmer to jump and hear him say “how high, sir?”–but yeah, I agree, he doesn’t seem to have the desire to actually do any ruling.
“Take over the world” might be a bit of hyperbole. I’m talking mostly about his desire to take over Greenland, to take back Panama, to annex Canada, to be put in charge of Palestine, etc. Of course, this too is Trump trying to enrich himself; how many Trump properties would end up being built in Greenland if the US ended up with it? How much would shipping companies pay him in kickbacks if he took the Panama Canal and offered them priority passage? How much money would he and his cadre make by decreasing regulation in Canada, or getting access to Canadian oil fields? And, of course, you’ve already heard of his plan for the “Palestinian Riviera.”
He wants to “take over the world” in the sense that he wants to rule over more swaths of land and extract the value from them, and in the sense that he wants to tell Keir Starmer to jump and hear him say “how high, sir?”–but yeah, I agree, he doesn’t seem to have the desire to actually do any ruling.