Donald Trump has never been able to comprehend the plain fact that when a person says no, that actually means “NO.” His view is that his every desire should be met with surrender—even if that requires applying force.

This explains a lot about his crude approach to Greenland, demanding that the Danish territory simply succumb to him. Even though proud Greenlanders have repeatedly said, “Go away!” to Trump’s uninvited advances, their emphatic rejections have only heightened his sadistic lust for dominance. Indeed, rebuffed again this month, he turned downright sinister, declaring, “One way or another, we’re going to get it.”

Why push so fiercely for a frozen Arctic island that has a population smaller than Greenville, South Carolina? First, because Donald is an overprivileged child with an insatiable need to assert power over others. The pragmatic reason though, is money. Beneath that thick covering of ice, Greenland has a trove of oil, uranium, precious metals, etc., that Trump and his billionaire cohorts desperately want to plunder.

Initially, Trump & Co. tried macho American chauvinism to get their way: Leave dull old Denmark, they propositioned, and we’ll make you a sort of American sub-state. People snickered at that, so Trump tried his usual pay-off ploy—give in to us, he told the islanders, and “we will make you rich.” Rightly insulted, “We Are Not for Sale” protests erupted across the land, and “Trump” became a curse word in the island’s Danish, Inuit and English languages.

This is Jim Hightower saying… But “no” means “go” to him, so he has now directed the National Security Council to develop plans for subjugating Greenland’s resources, even by force. In a blunt order, he barked, “Let’s get it done.”

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