Trump wanted to sell Puerto Rico or swap it for Greenland because he viewed the US territory as dirty and poor, said Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security.
Miles Taylor, who was chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, said Trump expressed those views as the government undertook support operations after two massive hurricanes ravaged the Caribbean island in 2017.
"He told us, not only did he want to purchase Greenland, he actually said he wanted to see if we could sell Puerto Rico, could we swap Puerto Rico for Greenland, because in his words, Puerto Rico was dirty and the people were poor," Taylor said."These are Americans. We don't talk about our fellow Americans that way," Taylor added.
Trump has long expressed disdain for the island of some three million people, many of whom live on the US mainland -- especially in Florida and Trump's native New York -- due to the deeply depressed economy at home. "He is their president. He should be standing by them, not trying to sell them off to a foreign country."
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