Cruz cites America’s ‘history of acquiring new lands’ in defending Trump’s Greenland push

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) suggested that President Donald Trump is harkening back to the history of the United States by seeking to acquire Greenland. 

Cruz appeared on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures the same day the European Union held an emergency meeting in Belgium after Trump imposed 10% tariffs on some countries opposed to his bid to acquire Greenland.

“Look, the whole history of America has been a history of acquiring new lands and new territories, whether you go back to Thomas Jefferson making the Louisiana Purchase — about half of the United States of America today — or you go back to America purchasing Alaska from Russia,” Cruz said. “There are enormous economic benefits to America, but it’s also — like Alaska — it is