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Yesterday, The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper of Donald Trump's and Ronald Lauder's alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, reported that:
"Lauder...is credited with first sparking Trump’s interest in Greenland, having pitched the idea to the President several years ago. His recent investment in the territory coincides with a White House effort to frame United States control of the island as imperative to national security interests...
"During his first term in office, Trump dedicated research to the potential annexation of Greenland after Lauder proposed the idea. At the time, Lauder even volunteered to serve as a “back channel” for negotiations with Denmark regarding the sale....Ronald Lauder has made significant investments across the Danish territory....
"According to Danish news outlet Politiken, Lauder — the sole heir of $29 billion cosmetics company Estée Lauder — recently invested in a Greenlandic freshwater bottling company. His new partners include Jørgen Wæver Johansen, the husband of Greenland’s foreign minister Vivian Motzfeldt, and businessman Svend Hardenberg....
"Lauder and his colleagues in the investor group have a very good understanding of and access to the luxury market," Hardenberg said on the investments.
"Lauder is reportedly a member of the American investment group Greenland Development Partners, which has a stake in several projects across the territory.
"In February 2025, Lauder defended Trump in a New York Post column: “Trump’s Greenland concept was never absurd — it was strategic,” he wrote. “I have worked closely with Greenland’s business and government leaders for years to develop strategic investments there, even as the Biden administration, unsurprisingly, ignored and underestimated its vast opportunity....Lauder added that Greenland’s natural resources and strategic positioning make it “America’s next frontier.”
These disclosures add further evidence that Trump's threats and efforts to "own" Greenland are driven more by profits and protecting those profits than by our own national security.
They also add significant credence to the prospect that the $1 billion a piece that Trump is seeking from countries or their business communities for his supposed "Board of Peace" are not, in fact, mere contributions in furtherance of restoring peace in GAZA , as was reported to be one of the purposes, but rather investments for high rates of return.
One of the stated purposes of this Board is to pursue the "reconstruction" of Gaza, and I think that we vividly recall Jared Kushner's proposal to convert Gaza into a luxury resort on the sea. Whoever may be paid to do the reconstruction and whoever may profit by it, we can be sure that there is money to be made there.
The full article , by Luke Petersen and Riana Mahtani, may be found at:
"Days Trump’s DOJ has been illegally withholding all non-exempt, unclassified Epstein files: 35
Running total of cash and gifts amassed by Trump and his family since his second inauguration: $$1,834,128,760 (and counting)"
Thank you for keeping up on these figures, but what is being done to put an end to their escalation?
On another tack, it seems that at least for now TACO-in-chief has vascillated on the militant acquisition of Greenland. Let's hope that remains the case.
Question: Why aren't local police intervening in the crimes happening in their communities? I don't understand why they aren't arresting those who are carrying automatic weapons and committing crimes.
Minneapolis has a police force of 700, and the ICE Agents in their city are 2,000.
Question: Is that the reason they are not intervening?
Question: What is the total number of ICE agents in America? Aichat says there are 21,000 ICE agents in America.
Question: Are the agents in Minneapolis the same agents as were in California?
Question: Where do these agents live and eat?
Question: Do they own or rent their cars?
Question: Are the agents embedded in communities, or do they travel between communities?
Question: Why are the governors in democratic states not developing resistance plans?
Question: Why are these governors not organizing state resistance and controls for their communities?
Question: Why are the governors not intervening in the crimes being committed against their citizens?
Question: Are there still ICE agents in California?
IDEAS:
Governors are cowards; they are asking their citizens to confront these goons with whistles and peaceful protest, and they are hiding and doing nothing. They should be voted out of office, and new governors elected who can present an active intervention plan.
Allowing a group of 22,000 Gestapo agents to terrorize our country is a disgraceful event happening in our country of 340,000 million citizens.
In my state of Massachusetts, our governor, Healey, has only offered guidance on what to do if confronted by ICE agents. That's it! This is the level of concern and resistance provided by our governor; maybe she could issue whistles.
I think the governors have decided to wait out this ICE problem. Maybe their states will lose a few hundred citizens, and that can be tolerated, rather than calling down the raft of the bully in the White House.
These democratic governors are playing politics and taking the path of least resistance. Their citizens be damned, but the chaos that would have occurred if they had organized and formed a unified resistance had been avoided for now. So, as usual, all the markets and financial institutions have been taken care of before their citizens.
BOMBSHELL REPORT THAT GREENLAND IS REALLY A MONEY GRAB!
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Yesterday, The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper of Donald Trump's and Ronald Lauder's alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, reported that:
"Lauder...is credited with first sparking Trump’s interest in Greenland, having pitched the idea to the President several years ago. His recent investment in the territory coincides with a White House effort to frame United States control of the island as imperative to national security interests...
"During his first term in office, Trump dedicated research to the potential annexation of Greenland after Lauder proposed the idea. At the time, Lauder even volunteered to serve as a “back channel” for negotiations with Denmark regarding the sale....Ronald Lauder has made significant investments across the Danish territory....
"According to Danish news outlet Politiken, Lauder — the sole heir of $29 billion cosmetics company Estée Lauder — recently invested in a Greenlandic freshwater bottling company. His new partners include Jørgen Wæver Johansen, the husband of Greenland’s foreign minister Vivian Motzfeldt, and businessman Svend Hardenberg....
"Lauder and his colleagues in the investor group have a very good understanding of and access to the luxury market," Hardenberg said on the investments.
"Lauder is reportedly a member of the American investment group Greenland Development Partners, which has a stake in several projects across the territory.
"In February 2025, Lauder defended Trump in a New York Post column: “Trump’s Greenland concept was never absurd — it was strategic,” he wrote. “I have worked closely with Greenland’s business and government leaders for years to develop strategic investments there, even as the Biden administration, unsurprisingly, ignored and underestimated its vast opportunity....Lauder added that Greenland’s natural resources and strategic positioning make it “America’s next frontier.”
These disclosures add further evidence that Trump's threats and efforts to "own" Greenland are driven more by profits and protecting those profits than by our own national security.
They also add significant credence to the prospect that the $1 billion a piece that Trump is seeking from countries or their business communities for his supposed "Board of Peace" are not, in fact, mere contributions in furtherance of restoring peace in GAZA , as was reported to be one of the purposes, but rather investments for high rates of return.
One of the stated purposes of this Board is to pursue the "reconstruction" of Gaza, and I think that we vividly recall Jared Kushner's proposal to convert Gaza into a luxury resort on the sea. Whoever may be paid to do the reconstruction and whoever may profit by it, we can be sure that there is money to be made there.
The full article , by Luke Petersen and Riana Mahtani, may be found at:
https://www.thedp.com/article/2026/01/penn-trump-greenland-ronald-lauder-donor-financial-ties?utm_source=Newsletters&utm_campaign=c177a5071a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_01_22_10_56&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c177a5071a-353398753
Always, always, always… follow the money!
stick to makeup bozo
Up you men!
"Days Trump’s DOJ has been illegally withholding all non-exempt, unclassified Epstein files: 35
Running total of cash and gifts amassed by Trump and his family since his second inauguration: $$1,834,128,760 (and counting)"
Thank you for keeping up on these figures, but what is being done to put an end to their escalation?
On another tack, it seems that at least for now TACO-in-chief has vascillated on the militant acquisition of Greenland. Let's hope that remains the case.
The interview with Senator Whitehouse is outstanding!
Questions and ideas
QUESTIONS
Question: Why aren't local police intervening in the crimes happening in their communities? I don't understand why they aren't arresting those who are carrying automatic weapons and committing crimes.
Minneapolis has a police force of 700, and the ICE Agents in their city are 2,000.
Question: Is that the reason they are not intervening?
Question: What is the total number of ICE agents in America? Aichat says there are 21,000 ICE agents in America.
Question: Are the agents in Minneapolis the same agents as were in California?
Question: Where do these agents live and eat?
Question: Do they own or rent their cars?
Question: Are the agents embedded in communities, or do they travel between communities?
Question: Why are the governors in democratic states not developing resistance plans?
Question: Why are these governors not organizing state resistance and controls for their communities?
Question: Why are the governors not intervening in the crimes being committed against their citizens?
Question: Are there still ICE agents in California?
IDEAS:
Governors are cowards; they are asking their citizens to confront these goons with whistles and peaceful protest, and they are hiding and doing nothing. They should be voted out of office, and new governors elected who can present an active intervention plan.
Allowing a group of 22,000 Gestapo agents to terrorize our country is a disgraceful event happening in our country of 340,000 million citizens.
In my state of Massachusetts, our governor, Healey, has only offered guidance on what to do if confronted by ICE agents. That's it! This is the level of concern and resistance provided by our governor; maybe she could issue whistles.
I think the governors have decided to wait out this ICE problem. Maybe their states will lose a few hundred citizens, and that can be tolerated, rather than calling down the raft of the bully in the White House.
These democratic governors are playing politics and taking the path of least resistance. Their citizens be damned, but the chaos that would have occurred if they had organized and formed a unified resistance had been avoided for now. So, as usual, all the markets and financial institutions have been taken care of before their citizens.