President Donald Trump likes to make big claims and bold promises.
A lot of the time, they don't come true.
But earlier this week,
our Washington Post colleagues found out
that the Trump administration is actually laying the groundwork for one of Trump's more surprising ideas.
So we heard
that the number crunching part of the White House has been running through scenarios to try to understand what it would cost the United States
if it took over Greenland from Denmark and operated it as a U.S.
territory.
That's White House reporter Michael Birnbaum.
Donald Trump has talked about obtaining Greenland for the United States for a long time.
It's something that came up in the first term as well.
For a long time, it's felt like a bit of a joke.
So what we're seeing is the transformation of an idea into something that has numbers attached to it and that could ideally,
from the White House perspective, actually be executed.
From the Newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
I'm Colby Echoitz.
It's Wednesday, April 2nd.
Currently, Greenland is a part of Denmark.
Today, we'll talk about Trump's plans to make the island part of the United States.