There is a joker in every pack, and some are out to Trump the President in real estate

Donald Trump made his name in real estate. Greenland has not panned out, but there are still bargains to be had. Satirical news website The Shovel, August 22:

Describing it as a “terrific real estate opportunity not to be missed” Australia has contacted US President Don­ald Trump, offering him the chance to purchase New Zealand for a bargain basement price … Australia said it was happy to help … out, noting that it had no use for New Zealand.

Stephen Daisley, The Spectator, Aug­ust 23:

Greenland may have fallen through but if he’s still in the market, there’s some prime real estate in the neighbourhood. It’s smaller, yes, but just as cold, almost as sparsely populated and even has its own independence movement agitating for a breakaway. Happily, the president already owns a chunk of the country in question, so he might be able to get the rest for a bargain. Scotland, not Greenland, is where Trump should redirect his inter­est.

Of course, Ireland might be cheaper again. But it is already taken. The Irish Times, July 13 last year:

Mr Trump (said) he was popular in Britain despite the protests planned around the country. Mr Trump had said in the interview: “I believe that the people in the UK — Scotland, Ireland, they like me a lot.” (US Democratic congressman Brendan) Boyle pointed out to the president that “Ireland is not part of the UK. It’s been an independent country for about 100 years … Please stop embarrassing us on the international stage.”

The US is not the only nation with a Trump. The Spectator, August 19:

Jeremy Corbyn has just surprised absolutely nobody by calling Prime Minister Boris Johnson “Britain’s Trump”. He labelled Boris a “fake populist” and a “phoney outsider” … but it might backfire … Corbyn, 70, and Trump, 73, have far more in common than Boris and Trump. Jeremy and Donald are both anti-establishment insurgents who have been married three times. They both like dictators and dislike NATO … When they were elected to lead their parties, Trump and Corbyn were both dismissed as jokes but they turned their joke-status to their advantage.

Trumps are everywhere. The Atlantic, June 17:

The Italian Donald Trump Visits Washington … Matteo Salvini, a social-media-savvy populist, Italy’s interior minister and its deputy prime minister, is the most vivid example of the “Trumpification” of politics …

Jonathan Kay in Foreign Policy, April 10 last year:

As a businessman, Donald Trump turned his name into a brand, one that can be found affixed to luxury buildings all over the world. In politics, too, Trump has become a sort of franchise operation since becoming president; the media now routinely label foreign populists as local Trump wannabes. That includes Doug Ford — an elder brother of one-time Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who is best remembered for denying, and later admitting, that he had been recorded smoking crack cocaine.

The real Trump is not enamoured of all his Canadian neighbours. Alexis Carey, News.com.au, August 13:

When Donald Trump saw a particular front cover of Bloomberg’s Businessweek magazine, his first reaction was to tear it off, scrawl a message (“Looking good! Hope it’s not true!”) — and mail it to the Canadi­an ambassador … the cover in question featured a picture of Canadi­an Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with the headline “The Anti-Trump”.