Donald Trump’s imperialist designs on Greenland, Canada and Panama often sound like the ramblings of a chaos agent who views geopolitics and global trade like a real estate shark chasing new leads.

“The Texas economy is deeply connected with Mexico in particular, and also with Canada,” he said. “A lot of the business that Texas does with Canada, of course, comes through the oil side of things, where we import crude oil from Canada and refine it on the Gulf Coast.