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I think it's raw materials. Canada and Greenland both have a load of them. Trump could buy them, he'd rather just _have_ them.

I also think (and I realize this, uh, is not a nuanced, science-backed view) that he's senile and as a result collapses complex ideas into their simplest possible form, which is what we're seeing here. There's a level where examining his motivations in depth just comes up empty and I think that's... accurate?