A Democratic lawmaker Thursday shot down President Donald Trump's push to take over Greenland. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) had a stern response to Trump's threats to take the island nation and Danish territory, despite the country's foreign minister and Danish foreign minister pushing back and saying ...
100s of millions of dollars into his campaign/propaganda/lies/corruption assisted a bit I’d wager.
You have to already have a lot of people prepped as this stupid and receptive to it though, first.
If we had a well-fed, financially secure and stable, well-educated populace with very high rates of literacy and numeracy, as well as steeped in things like media literacy and critical thinking, they would not be so receptive to this.