These Billionaires Bet Big On Greenland—After Trump Took Interest

ByMartina Di Licosa,Forbes Staff. Martina Di Licosa is a reporter covering consumer

Just months after President Donald Trump first expressed interest in the United States possibly gaining control over Greenland, some of the richest people in the world—including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg—began making strategic investments in the mineral-rich island.

KEY FACTS

Ronald Lauder: The heir to the Estée Lauder fortune, is credited with giving Trump the idea of taking over Greenland during his first term, former White House national security adviser John Bolton confirmed to Forbes.

Lauder has since invested, according to the Danish newspaper Politiken, in an unprofitable Greenlandic freshwater bottling company co-owned by Jørgen Wæver Johansen, local chair of the governing Siumut party in Nuuk and husband to Greenland’s minister of foreign affairs, Vivian Motzfeldt, raising concerns about political interference.

Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg: All have invested since 2019 in Kobold Metals, which looks for valuable rare earth minerals used in electronic devices through AI-powered exploration of the island.

I've got to ask - what's the story with Bloomberg owing you $200?

Ok, so back when Bloomberg ran for mayor for the first time in 2001, his campaign hired a whole bunch of college students from various universities across NYC to work as poll workers - without disclosing what campaign was hiring these students - for $100 for one 12-hour shift, and a further $100 if you did a double.

As a brokeass and naive freshman, I picked up one of the flyers that advertized quick cash for "helping out at the polls on Election Day!" and I ended up working an extremely long workday. At the end of my double shift, I filled out the paperwork to get paid...and ended up being one of a bunch of us college students who never got paid.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/michael-bloombergs-outrageous-response-to-the-texas-church-shooting-is-an-insult-to-hero-jack-wilson

Well, this shooting would have played out much, much worse in that hypothetical scenario. The killer, of course, doesn’t care what law Bloomberg and his pals pass, so he would have stormed in with a gun regardless. But Wilson wouldn’t have been armed. 

Assuming the police are minutes away, and considering that the gunman shot two people in just a few seconds before being taken down, it’s likely that several dozen people would have been shot before police arrived.

This is the outcome Bloomberg basically just said he would prefer. 

And by saying that only police should have guns, Bloomberg is no longer hiding behind calls for so-called universal background checks or assault weapon bans — he’s openly calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment. If we needed another reminder why we should never elect this wannabe tyrant as our president, well, he just handed us one.