In a glib press conference today, President-elect Donald Trump said the United States could take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, and that the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas could take hostages captured in an operation on October 7, 2023. He said it would be better to release him. He attacked Israel before taking office.
President Trump told reporters representing the far-left, Trump-hating mainstream media that the canal and the Danish autonomous territory of Greenland are critical to U.S. national security interests.
And if the hostages are not released, “all hell will break out” in the Middle East.
And one more thing: the Gulf of Mexico will soon become the Gulf of America.
Prohibition of use of force
President Trump has recently talked about buying Greenland from Denmark, and his son Donald Jr. landed in Greenland today.
With that in mind, one reporter asked if President Trump could “assure the world” that he would not use military force to seize Greenland and the rightful American canal.
“There are no guarantees,” the 47th president-elect said.
You're talking about Panama and Greenland…(we) need them for economic security. The Panama Canal was built for our military. Maybe something needs to be done. ”
President Trump said the canal is “extremely important to our country” but that it is “operated by China.”
“We gave the Panama Canal to Panama. We didn't give it to China,” he continued, “and they abused it.”
Trump said his foolish donations cost Carter the 1980 election, which he lost in 44 states to Ronald Reagan in a landslide.
As for Greenland, “it is necessary for national security.”
“People don't really know if Denmark even has a legal right to it. But if they do, they need to give it up because it's necessary for national security,” Trump said. continued. “It's for the free world. I'm talking about protecting the free world.”
President Trump appeared to say on Truth Social that he aims to take control of the world's largest island.
Not for sale
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in a television interview that the 836,300 square mile territory is not for sale, The Hill reported.
Frederiksen said in a television interview on Tuesday that Greenland's Prime Minister Moute Egede had said “very clearly that there is a lot of support among Greenlanders that Greenland is not for sale and will not be for sale.” “There is,” he said.
He also said the United States is Denmark's “most important and closest ally” and that he did not believe Trump would use military or economic power to occupy Denmark, the Associated Press reported.
In its coverage of Trump Jr.'s visit, CNN noted that the island is an important strategic asset for the United States. But it is also a place of natural resources, some of which are useful to the defense industry.
“These include oil and gas, as well as rare earth metals, which are in high demand during the green transition for electric vehicles, wind turbines, and munitions manufacturing,” the network reported.
China currently dominates global rare earth production and has already threatened to restrict exports of critical minerals and related technologies ahead of President Trump's second term.
“There's absolutely no question that Mr. Trump and his advisers are very concerned about a squeeze by China,” Dodds told CNN. Greenland offers a potentially rich source of these important minerals, he added. “I think Greenland is really about keeping China out.”
“I hear the people of Greenland are MAGA,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social yesterday, referring to his son's upcoming trip.
“Greenland is a wonderful place and its people would benefit tremendously if it became part of our country,” he continued.
We protect it from the very vicious outside world and cherish it. Let's make Greenland great again!
Trump wrote on a video of a Greenlander urging Trump to “buy us.”
Greenland is so vast that it can include most of the American Midwest.
Watch out, Hamas
Regarding Hamas, which holds seven Americans in custody, President Trump was clear about what will happen.
If those hostages don't come back…by the time I take office, all hell will break out in the Middle East, and that won't be good for Hamas…all hell will break out. I don't need to say more than that, but it is what it is.
President Trump said people are pleading for the child's body to be returned.
Gulf of America
But before discussing the canal and Greenland, President Trump said the Gulf of Mexico would have a new name.
“We are renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. The Gulf has a beautiful ring that covers a vast territory,” President Trump said.
American Gulf. What a beautiful name, and it's appropriate…and Mexico must stop the influx of millions of people into our country. they can stop them.
President Trump has promised to impose “very severe tariffs on Mexico and Canada” due to illegal immigrants and illegal drugs crossing the border between the two countries.
