Last week, an 18-foot-by-30-foot American flag with a green star printed beneath the white ones replaced a banner that read, “Welcome back, Mr. President!” outside the National Grange building on H Street, Northwest. Ryan Lambert, the building’s owner, says he asked his staff to print the star to demonstrate support for President Trump’s calls to buy Greenland, an autonomous territory that Denmark owns. Trump has also proposed making Canada the US’s 51st state, an idea that generated enormous backlash north of the 49th parallel.

“President Trump said he wanted Greenland to be the 51st state, and I like the president,” Lambert tells Washingtonian . The Houston native is a real estate developer by trade (he says his upbringing gave him an affinity for “wide open spaces”) and he moved to

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