Alex Wagner: Trump knows exactly what he's doing with his threats to take over Greenland

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

87% : Trump told Glasser and Baker, "I love maps.
75% : According to Glasser and Baker, Trump was so obsessed with the Greenland idea in his first administration that it "absorbed the National Security Council staff for months.
64% : Trump also said he wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America," because he thinks that sounds better.
62% : At the time, anti-American riots had broken out in Panama, in part over U.S. control of the Panama Canal.
58% : As reporters Peter Baker and Susan Glasser reported in their book "The Divider," Trump was first put on to the idea of acquiring Greenland by one of his billionaire friends, Ronald Lauder -- one of the heirs to the Estee Lauder cosmetics fortune.
55% : Yet Trump appears to have become obsessed with the idea of acquiring Greenland, and maybe using the U.S. military to do so, because it looks "massive."
49% : During a news conference on Tuesday, Trump told reporters the United States needs Greenland for "national security purposes."
44% : All of this is obviously ridiculous -- and in some ways a distraction from the things Trump might actually do as president -- but the idea behind this territorial expansion is serious.
35% : You may recall that Trump toyed with the idea of buying Greenland during his first presidential administration, even though the nation of Denmark says it has zero interest in handing it over to the U.S.Trump also refused to rule out the idea of using military force to acquire both Greenland and the Panama Canal.
34% : And because this is Trump we're dealing with, the foolish and ill-conceived imperial ambitions go far beyond just Panama.
30% : On Tuesday, Trump also reiterated his desire to make Canada the 51st U.S. state, something Canadians also have precisely zero interest in.
19% : I thought it was a terrible thing to do," Trump said during a news conference on Tuesday.

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