{"id":1278,"date":"2026-01-15T21:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/how-a-billionaire-with-interests-in-greenland-encouraged-trump-to-acquire-the-territory-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T21:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:51:37","slug":"how-a-billionaire-with-interests-in-greenland-encouraged-trump-to-acquire-the-territory-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/how-a-billionaire-with-interests-in-greenland-encouraged-trump-to-acquire-the-territory-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president\u2019s friend Ronald Lauder \u2013 who first proposed Arctic expansion \u2013 is now making deals in the islandOne day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top aide to discuss a new idea. \u201cTrump called me down to the Oval Office,\u201d John Bolton, national security adviser in 2018, told the Guardian. \u201cHe said a prominent businessman had just suggested the US buy Greenland.\u201dIt was an extraordinary proposal. And it originated from a longtime friend of the president who would go on to acquire business interests in the Danish territory. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president\u2019s friend Ronald Lauder \u2013 who first proposed Arctic expansion \u2013 is now making deals in the islandOne day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}