#ronald-lauder

#ronald-lauder

The thing to remember, always, with Trump is that everything is about the psychodrama, the Guardian investigations correspondent Tom Burgis tells Helen Pidd. Everything is who's in his ear, what bit of his vanity or insecurity has been activated. In this episode, Tom explains the backstory to the US president's interest in Greenland. According to John Bolton, the former national security adviser, the story began in 2018 with a conversation between Trump and the billionaire Ronald Lauder.