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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Its location is strategic militarily. Better us than China.
Land for the coming World War.
These next four years are going to be fantastic!
Greenland is rich in the minerals required for the advancing AI and it is a strategic stronghold to help protect from China and Russia attacks. And the people of Greenland are big time MAGA.
Trump said he wanted to rename it the Gulf of America.
I totally agree. I think the long game here is to have Greenland declare independence and then petition to join the US.
This will ensure that the billions of dollars we would have to pay the Dutch will go to the Greenlanders.
There are only two kinds of people in the world that Trump hates, people who discriminate based on race and the Dutch.
Art off the deal.
Dutch???
He’s moving from the North American Union the the Americas Union. Globalists are celebrating!
Greenland may not actually “belong” to Denmark. Nobody seems to know why there’s that assumption, when Denmark acquired it, if they did, etc.
It’s possible that Greenland could vote to be independent, or to be an American state.
Anyhow, FWIW ... just discussions I’ve heard on the news the last couple of days.
Dishonest headline by scumbag fake-journalist .
He said he’s “not going to commit to that” in response to a compound question that included using peaceful options, such as economic incentives.
Only a lying, Trump-hating scumbag would infer from his response that he was prepared to use military force on Greenland.
Think about the North Pole and the north seas. Looking at a 2D map it seems unimportant but if you look at a globe you can see how Greenland would be strategically important to the entire northern hemisphere. It’s easier to reach any country from the North Pole than laterally across continents.
Also it has rare minerals and the like.
We don’t have to own it, just get them to align with us. Trump said he won’t rule out military but that doesn’t mean he would use it. He just doesn’t think it’s wise to take gambits off the table when negotiating. You never know which way things will turn especially if Russia or China decide to make moves. But he obviously thinks it’s important for the future.
Trump is talking about a lot of things to realign order, particularly the Americas. He wants an economic union with Canada to make totally free trade and currency parity. That’s a good idea. He wants to control the Panama Canal. And he wants to stretch our reach and reduce strike time.
From everything I’ve seen, they tend to vote socialist/left wing.
That threw me, too.
(And why would Trump hate either the Dutch or the Danes, anyway?)
“...change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the ‘Gulf of America’.”
LOLOL. Of course!
When I worked in South America in the mid 70s, I learned that many there were deeply offended by me saying “I am from America.” They considered themselves “Americans,” too. So the “Gulf of America” would be very inclusive of both North and South America. Amerigo would be pleased. I always liked that name.
What does Greenland have that we would want?
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1. Control of the Arctic.
2. Blocking a Chinese take over.
3 Vast untapped mineral resources.
4. Untapped fisheries.
We’re not looking to buy Greenland.
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Trump told you that? Really?
With 55,000 inhabitants, they would welcome pay outs of $2 or more million each. Denmark is just trying to hang on to its colony. They have no way of stopping the Russians or the Chinese from taking it.
Right now, the Chinese are trying to buy the place with a $150 billion “investment”.
I would go with Gulf of Texas.
We only have one base which could quickly be cut off by the Chinese and be forced to evacuate.
I think the long game here is to have Greenland declare independence and then petition to join the US.
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By the time all of that happened, Trump would be long out of office and the Chinese would own Greenland.
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