# Trump's disgusting shakedown of Zelensky

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**Created:** [February 28, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-disgusting-shakedown-of-zelensky/1014940 "2025-02-28T19:52:36Z")\
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> [@Coriolanus](#):
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> “Renowned Critical Minerals Expert Jack Lifton” - sounds too knowledgable and sensible. Kinda like that pseudo-scientist Carl Sagan, who supposedly taught stuff at Cornell University - if that even exists.
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> Admit it, Stranger. You are Jack Lifton!
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> JK. And wow. I have some tiny cubic rare-earth magnets that I didn’t have to go to war for. They are great at sticking to each other and holding things on the fridge.

The whole thing is a misunderstanding anyway. If you listen to the Orange Genius in that video, it’s not Ukraine’s rare-earth elements that he wants, it’s “ **raw** earth”. So I presume what the Orange Genius is after is topsoil. Ukraine has vast amounts of rich agricultural farmlands so they have lots of topsoil, which I presume the Orange Genius needs for his golf courses. If Zelensky was smart he’d offer to send truckloads of “raw earth” wherever Trump wanted it, and even offer to throw in some sod.

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