THIS is a MUST READ!!!
If only half is true we got lucky!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cosmetics...121218552.html
The New York Times
Cosmetics Billionaire Convinced Trump That the U.S. Should Buy Greenland
WASHINGTON — One of the odder moments of Donald Trump’s presidency came when he publicly floated the idea of buying Greenland.
While many assumed at the time that it was just Trump being Trump, expressing a far-fetched thought that came into his head, in fact the idea had been planted by one of his billionaire friends
The notion came from Ronald S. Lauder, a New York cosmetics heir who had known Trump since college. “A friend of mine, a really, really experienced businessman, thinks we can get Greenland,” Trump told his national security adviser. “What do you think?” That led to a special team being assigned to evaluate the prospects.
The Greenland idea was just one of many that left aides trying to find ways of steering Trump away from paths they deemed bizarre or reckless.
Trump’s mercurial approach to the presidency so baffled John Kelly, his second chief of staff, that Kelly secretly bought a copy of a bestselling book by a group of psychiatrists questioning Trump’s mental health. Kelly told others that the book was a helpful guide to a president he came to consider a pathological liar whose inflated ego was in fact the sign of a deeply insecure person
Kelly often regaled others with stories of Trump’s ignorance about basic historical facts and his inability to absorb information. But it was Trump’s flawed judgment that most rattled Kelly, and he concluded that the problem was not that Trump did not know right from wrong, but that “he always does the wrong thing.”
Rarely restrained in front of a camera, Trump nonetheless was even more caustic at times behind the scenes. He harshly criticized women for their looks, telling visitors that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was an example of why women should be careful about plastic surgery and that he would not pick Nikki Haley, his United Nations ambassador, as a running mate because she had a “complexion problem.
Kelly grew so disaffected from Trump that he snapped at him when the president refused to lower the flag after Sen. John McCain’s death. “If you don’t support John McCain’s funeral, when you die, the public will come to your grave and piss on it,”
So many Cabinet secretaries were disenchanted with the president that at one point they discussed a plan to resign en masse. There were other mutual resignation pacts during the Trump administration as well. Kirstjen Nielsen, the Department of Homeland Security secretary, agreed with Alex Azar, the Department of Health and Human Services secretary, that they would both resign in protest if Trump resumed separating the children of migrants at the border from their parents.
Trump regularly sought to use government power to punish his enemies, ordering aides to block a merger in retaliation against CNN and to ensure that a government contract did not go to Jeff Bezos’ Amazon — actions aides considered illegal or unethical. He was so intent on targeting former intelligence officials James Clapper and John Brennan that he demanded some 50 to 75 times that aides strip them of their security clearance. When the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked one of his policies, Trump ordered aides to “cancel” or eliminate the court altogether, another demand they ignored.