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BREAKING NEWS Trump says he wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico... and doesn't rule out using military on Panama Canal and Greenland
Daily Mail UK ^ | January 7, 2025 | Emily Goodin

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Yep...I wonder if Iran/Hamas will release the hostages??


61 posted on 01/07/2025 1:13:05 PM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“ the Italian explorer and navigator Amerigo Vespucci”

After he returned from his exploratory voyages, two booklets, including drawings, were published under his name. I guess that publishing paid off in his lasting fame, at least his name.


62 posted on 01/07/2025 1:14:06 PM PST by Freee-dame ( )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; Jamestown1630

I’m of the opinion that we were lied to about Amerigo Vespucci.


63 posted on 01/07/2025 1:20:22 PM PST by youngidiot (Race is irrelevant to everyone except the racists )
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To: Morgana

Golf of Trump.


64 posted on 01/07/2025 1:24:26 PM PST by jigsaw (May God Bless America's Service Members.)
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To: Morgana
he also didnt discount kicking your pooty emmily.

he also didnt discount you falling out of the ugly urinalist tree and hitting every branch on the way down

see how that works honey ?

what
a
loser

.

65 posted on 01/07/2025 1:24:34 PM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
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To: youngidiot

And on what do you base that opinion?


66 posted on 01/07/2025 1:25:43 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: youngidiot

“opinion”

Care to present facts in evidence?


67 posted on 01/07/2025 1:26:41 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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To: lgjhn23

Pax Americana

https://t.me/Jack_Posobiec/5469

Also, Russia is creating a set of Arctic cities

https://arctic-russia.ru/en/about/


68 posted on 01/07/2025 1:33:08 PM PST by combat_boots
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Related

https://news.yahoo.com/news/china-russia-plotting-military-stranglehold-225355006.html


69 posted on 01/07/2025 1:35:38 PM PST by combat_boots
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To: Morgana

gulf course...


70 posted on 01/07/2025 1:41:17 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: Freee-dame
A German mapmaker had read Amerigo Vespucci's account of his trip to South America and thought that he had seen the continent before Columbus (actually Columbus seems to have seen the South American continent before Vespucci), and the mapmaker then proposed America as the name for South America (the feminine form of the Latin version of Amerigo's name).

Vespucci was just a passenger on the ship--he wasn't even in command of the expedition.

71 posted on 01/07/2025 1:41:20 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Very interesting.

America is a good name, easily pronounced and spelled.


72 posted on 01/07/2025 1:43:40 PM PST by Freee-dame ( )
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To: Williams

True but that’s not what they asked.

They didn’t ask “if THIS happened...”

They just asked in general.

And if Trump genreally meant for any reason he liked, then it was as silly answer :)


73 posted on 01/07/2025 1:55:50 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: dp0622

Try not to ever run for president.


74 posted on 01/07/2025 2:38:05 PM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Freee-dame
I was repeating what I recalled from a book by Samuel Eliot Morison which I read a long time ago.

The mapmaker, Waldseemueller, when he came up with the name America, wanted it to be similar to the names for the other continents (Latin feminines)--Europa, Africa, Asia.

All of these names originally applied to a much smaller area--Europe was a portion of the Balkans, Africa was roughly modern Tunisia, and Asia was a portion of western Asia Minor (an early form of the name is already found in the Hittite records from the second millennium BC). The mention of Asia in Acts 2.9 would be the older meaning--just a portion of Asia Minor. It was only later that America was applied to both continents.

75 posted on 01/07/2025 3:10:11 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Jamestown1630

“I doubt very much that South Americans routinely call themselves ‘American’.”

Our Founding Fathers bequeathed that name to us. There has been a move for a time to apply it to everyone.

Just another attempt to rob Americans of their identity.

A school official told me that when Common Core was adopted, they had to change “American history” to “United States history.” Can’t have that “American” word around, it is an identity.


76 posted on 01/07/2025 3:26:14 PM PST by odawg
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To: odawg
'Just another attempt to rob Americans of their identity.'

None of those attempts have ever worked. Everyone the world over knows what an American is.
77 posted on 01/07/2025 3:29:58 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Morgana

Location.


78 posted on 01/07/2025 5:58:50 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Jamestown1630; All

Look at the geopolitical landscape. Arctic trade routes and proximity to America. China owns and is buying millions of acres right here in America. Much of it is near military bases. People need to wake up… and think.


79 posted on 01/07/2025 6:01:58 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Cobra64

Think about what - taking Greenland by military force?


80 posted on 01/07/2025 6:05:56 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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