Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly presented Trump with option to buy islands housing Diego Garcia base
The White House is reportedly considering a plan that would see the U.S. make a deal to purchase the Chagos Islands after Donald Trump’s ambitions of seeing the U.S. take control of Greenland ended in failure.
The president has repeatedly threatened to seize or annex several nations and territories, including Canada and Venezuela, which he has potentially claimed as 51st states. He has also delivered similar threats to Panama and Cuba, with U.S. naval vessels building up forces throughout the Caribbean and launching a campaign of military strikes against small boats that the president claims are trafficking drugs.
His latest alleged plan follows delays in U.K. legislation that would complete the country’s cessation of the territory to the east African nation Mauritius after withdrawal of U.S. support in January. Trump called the treaty organizing the cessation of territory “an act of GREAT STUPIDITY” at the time.
Tell him Puerto Rico is for sale, nobody tell him it’s already part of the US, and then use the money from the “sale” to fix the electrical grid
Ah yes, it’s a great time to buy.
We’re just shy of 40 trillion dollars in debt.
Stop reporting on this bozo as if he’s got some grand calculated geopolitical chess strategy. Money, power, and grift. That’s it
I’m so glad I can finance a demented megalomaniac’s insatiable need for self-gratification with the portion of my mortal life I’ve exchanged for these tax dollars.
Thanks especially to Scott Bessent and the other sycophants who are coldly calculating and agreeing to exchange my life for their power.
Convince him to purchase Atlantis.
And then go visit.
I bet he wants land so he can rename it “Trumpland” or something equal stupid. He already took a half measure and renamed the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America”. Now that he has “proved” he can do it he’ll do it again.
And I know he didn’t prove anything, but he’s a moron.
More like ‘little saint Dons’
I think he wants a new Guantanamo
The UK stole those islands from the Chagossians. The UK doesn’t have the right to sell them to the US or anyone else to begin with!
Trumps still showing interest in islands hey…
