Trump wanted to trade Puerto Rico for Greenland because the island is dirty and the people are poor

Trump was serious about trading hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico for Greenland, ex-DHS official says

If this is just bullshit it's quality bullshit.

Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff who was recently featured in a political ad from Republican Voters Against Trump, told MSNBC on Wednesday that President Donald Trump asked him and other officials whether the U.S. could swap Greenland for Puerto Rico because, in Trump's words, "Puerto Rico was dirty and the people were poor."

The exchange happened in August 2018 before DHS officials went on a disaster recovery trip to Puerto Rico, which had been devastated by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, Taylor said.

"I did not take it as a joke," Taylor said. "The president expressed deep animus towards the Puerto Rican people behind the scenes. These are people who are recovering from the worst disaster we've seen in our lifetimes, and he is their president. He should be standing by them, not trying to sell them off to a foreign country."

Peter Brown, the White House special representative for Puerto Rico disaster recovery, said he has "never heard the president say anything of that sort."