This quote from Trump is very revelatory:

“I’m a real estate developer, I look at a corner, I say, ‘I’ve got to get that store for the building that I’m building,’ etc. It’s not that different. I love maps. And I always said: ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States.’”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/politics/trump-greenla...