Trump official pitched invasion of Greenland as a way to bring back endless shrimp at Red Lobster
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Remarkably, this is not actually the most ludicrous foreign policy initiative of the second Trump administration (so far).
One of the Trump administration officials who went all-in on President Donald Trump’s far-fetched scheme of taking over Greenland pitched it as a bizarre way to rescue the Red Lobster restaurants, the New Yorker reported on Monday. . . .
Tom Dans, the Trump-appointed director of the United States Arctic Research Commission, has a much stranger pitch for why the U.S. needs control of Greenland.
“When I met him for lunch in Washington, earlier this year, he declined to speak further on the record, except to articulate a narrow, symbiotic vision for the future,” reported Ben Taub. Specifically, Dans suggested, “My view is that the United States could take all the seafood Greenland could produce, and cut out the middleman, and keep it from China, and you could bring back all-you-can-eat shrimp at Red Lobster.”
The Red Lobster restaurant chain is a famous fixture of middle-class suburban communities, and its “endless shrimp” deal was once famous for causing stampedes of customers.
As the Iran fiasco continues to unwind, don’t overlook the possibility that conquering Greenland may edge out invading Cuba in the queue of insane ideas that flit through the fickle filter of continual idiocy known as Donald Trump’s “mind,” as he looks to salve his latest narcissistic injury.