Trump Pulls A New Fixation Out Of Thin Air And House GOP Runs Off The Cliff With It

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Trump has been raising the idea for some time and recently outlined this and other half-baked visions for an expansive American empire during a "foreign policy" press conference last week.
45% : In the same press conference last week, Trump outlined other imperialist priorities for his administration, like acquiring the Panama Canal and renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America.
42% : Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletterHouse Republicans have been on the hunt for opportunities to do some PDA for the incoming president before he's officially sworn into office -- recognizing that theatric fealty does numbers with Donald Trump, no matter how unserious the content may be.
39% : While Danish and Greenlandic leaders have vocally criticized, condemned and combatted the notion that the U.S. should acquire Greenland, Trump has not backed down, and has even suggested that using some kind of economic or military force to pull it off may be on the table.
34% : Take Trump's ongoing fixation with the idea that the U.S. could somehow purchase Greenland once Trump is sworn in in a few days.
32% : House Republicans who have accepted Trump as their party leader the last few years have long followed this playbook to keep themselves publicly in Trump's good graces: Trump mumbles about something in public (or all caps screams about it on Truth Social).

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