Posted on 01/07/2025 11:22:01 AM PST by Morgana
Donald Trump did not rule out using military force to take control of the Panama Canal and Greenland and announced a bold plan to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the 'Gulf of America'.
The president-elect, 78, announced his threat of coercion on the global stage and the name swap during a wild and wide-ranging press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday morning.
He laid out his vision for the world, took aim at Canada and tore into President Joe Biden's climate agenda.
Trump also attacked his nemesis, Special Counsel Jack Smith, by calling him a 'nutjob' and demanding all his criminal cases be brought to an end.
'He will execute everybody',' he raged before taking questions from the press.
Just 13 days before the inauguration, he said the United States was entering the 'golden age' and will 'take off like a rocketship' when he gets the keys back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
He also slammed the crackdown on gas heaters by saying electric heaters 'itch' and said windmills are killing whales.
In a remarkable moment, a reporter asked Trump if could assure he would not use 'military or economic coercion' to take control of the Panama Canal and Greenland.
'I´m not going to commit to that,' Trump said, when asked if he would rule out the use of the military. 'It might be that you´ll have to do something. The Panama Canal is vital to our country.' He added, 'We need Greenland for national security purposes.'
He has been ramping up threats to take over both in recent weeks as he prepares for his second term.
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also..Gulf of Mexico? Gulf of Trump?
Gulf of America
Mineral wealth. Strategic important. Just that China or Russia wanting it should be enough to make us want it as well.
I did not hear the press conference at Mar-a-Lago but I doubt he ever said such a thing..
Greenland has a lot of valuable minerals.
The idea of using our military on it is ridiculous.
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taste the flavor.........................
Media just regurgitates whatever it takes in...and their result is one big mess.
Access to the natural resources in the Artic based off of national boundaries.
China and Russia are the real foes. Geopolitics.
Biden left us a full blown WWIII.
More importantly, it shows the growing strategic importance of controlling the arctic.
MAGA Gulf
“..Question: What does Greenland have that we would want?...”
Outside of strategic defense value, I thought I read somewhere that Greenland has deposits of rare earth minerals that right now, we can only get from pedoJoe’s and their mighty odongo’s best buds in China.
The Grand Gulf.
Trump is turning into another Bush.
Mr. Trump did say something in regards to keeping Russia and China out of Greenland.
Russia has access to a vast portion of the Arctic as it stands now.
Independence means if they can make "deals" with the US for "trade deals", Greenland doesn't have to pay off the big boys in Denmark
No I bet they asked militarily and economic and he didn’t rule out economic for Greenland.
But they ran with that he said yes to both.
ICBM’s would fly over the Arctic Circle to strike America. Russia and China are expanding their presence in the Arctic. Potential oil and mineral wealth.
Well he did say it I watched.
No surprise.
He wouldn’t rule out military especially on the Canal.
But likewise if Greenland tried to hand our bases over to China.
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