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

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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