Trump kept demanding action, however. At various points, the president even suggested taking federal money from Puerto Rico, toward which he had a long-standing animus going back to the criticism of his handling of the deadly 2017 hurricane, and putting the funds toward buying Greenland. According to Miles Taylor, the former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff who later publicly turned on Trump, the president asked aides in August of 2018, before a disaster-recovery trip to Puerto Rico, whether they could just trade the American commonwealth outright for Greenland. Trump told them
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