Trump Official Argues Greenland Takeover Could Bring Back Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp

[highplainsdem]

Source: HuffPost

A Trump administration official is defending President Donald Trump’s controversial vow to acquire Greenland by touting the benefits it would have for a fast casual restaurant chain.

Tom Dans, whom Trump appointed as the chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission in December of last year, made the eyebrow-raising suggestion in an interview with The New Yorker’s Ben Taub published last week.

According to Taub, Dans declined to speak on the record about Trump’s fixation on seizing Greenland for the U.S., but nonetheless offered “a narrow, symbiotic vision” as to why such an acquisition was a good idea.

“My view is that the United States could take all the seafood Greenland could produce and cut out the middleman, and keep it from China — and you could bring back all-you-can-eat shrimp at Red Lobster,” Dans said.

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Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-greenland-red-lobster-shrimp-claim_n_6a3977d1e4b0810d441e4b33

[Deuxcents]

1. The stupidity is painful. Painfully embarrassing

[PlanetBev]

2. Good God

I thought this was from The Onion….

[SheltieLover]

8. Same here!

[Karasu]

3. The Onion only wishes they came up with this one.

[jeffreyi]

14. The reflecting pool!

Why not a shrimp farm?

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Apparently "Endless Shrimp" is going on now since I see ads for it all the time on TV

Of course we no longer have a Red Lobster around here, they went out of business during Covid.

[reACTIONary]

5. This guy is a "Chartered Financial Analyst." No wonder...

.... he is fixated on sea food vendors. I would have thought the chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission would be some sort of scientist. My mistake. Silly me.

[Karasu]

6. Appoint someone with actually relevant experience? In the US? Post-2024?! Surely you jest.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

7. Shrimp in Greenland?

Was my first reaction. I'm from the Gulf and thought shrimp needed warm water. Shows what I know. Norther Prawns make up 40% of Greenland's exports.

Who knew? Not me.

Still no reason to steal land from a long time ally and disenfranchise a nation of people.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. No, private equity killed the endless shrimp, not Greenland.

[twodogsbarking]

10. Endless Bullshit is still available.

[Bayard]

11. The Shrimp War

Good reason to take over a country.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. So, if we took over Argentina, we could have ...

... all-you-can-eat quarter pounders?

Move that carrier group!

[LisaL]

13. Well, if it's endless shrimp, then by all means,

lets go to war!

[republianmushroom]

15. The intelligence of this administration is just overwhelming.

Only the Best people. God help us.

[Grins]

16. From the story - his twin brother is just as bad.

Deeper into the story is that in the lead-up to Trump’s third run for office, Tom Dans' brother, Paul Dans, was at the Reich-wing intellectual whorehouse, The Heritage Foundation, "leading the effort to draft a blitz of executive actions and policies that became known as Project 2025."

A whole family of shits.

[Kid Berwyn]

17. Who can argue with such logic?

[tonekat]

18. These idiots are so superficial

Sure, what American doesn't care more about the availability of endless shrimp at a mediocre chain than the health of the country?

Judging by this failed administration, too many.

[Brother Buzz]

19. Tell that to a remorseless eating machine!

[LudwigPastorius]

20. Holy shit, these fuckers are putting satirists out of business.

They just can't compete with that.