Manifest Destiny met luxury cosmetics when makeup billionaire and Republican donor Ronald Lauder mentioned buying Greenland to Donald Trump.

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    “I love maps,” the president continued. “And I always said, ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States.’ ”

    Let me guess, Trump is looking at a Mercator projection, right?

    I tend to think Lauder planted the idea as a joke to see if his idiot golfing buddy would actually do it.