At a press convention on Tuesday, Donald Trump mentioned that it’s doable that he’ll use army power to manage Greenland and the Panama Canal as soon as he’s president.
A reporter requested Trump if he may guarantee that he wouldn’t use army or financial coercion to imagine management of the 2 territories, of which he beforehand mentioned he needs to grab management.
“No. I can’t assure you on either of those two, but I can say this: We need them for economic security,” he mentioned, later including that “it might be that you’ll have to do something.”
Trump can’t appear to cease mentioning the potential buy of Greenland, which his son Donald Trump Jr. is at the moment visiting to reportedly document a podcast.
“Don Jr. and my Reps landing in Greenland. The reception has been great. They, and the Free World, need safety, security, strength, and PEACE! This is a deal that must happen. MAGA. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote on Fact Social.
The “reps” Trump referred to are conservative activist Charlie Kirk of Turning Level and his incoming personnel director Sergio Gor.
“I am hearing that the people of Greenland are ‘MAGA.’ My son, Don Jr, and various representatives, will be traveling there to visit some of the most magnificent areas and sights,” Trump wrote on Fact Social Monday night.
Trump ally and financier Elon Musk has expressed assist for the fixation on Greenland.
“The people of Greenland should decide their future and I think they want to be part of America!” he wrote on X.
Greenland is an autonomous territory throughout the kingdom of Denmark. At a press convention on Tuesday, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen mentioned that the island is just not on the market, referencing a earlier assertion from Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Egede.
“[Egede] has been very, very clear … that there is a lot of support among the people of Greenland that Greenland is not for sale and will not be in the future either,” Frederiksen mentioned.
Trump’s fixation on Greenland isn’t new. As president in 2019, Trump canceled a deliberate journey to the island when Frederiksen rebuked his proposal, calling it “absurd.”
“Pissing everybody off by saying we’re just going to buy them outright really bruises our bilateral relationship with the Danes and more importantly ruins any kind of way for us to work this out with Greenlanders,” Jim Townsend, a former senior Pentagon official who has labored on points associated to NATO and protection coverage within the Arctic area, advised Politico,
Trump has additionally complained about management of the Panama Canal, which was turned over to the Panamanian authorities to satisfy a treaty in 1999. After Trump claimed that China controls the canal and that the USA must reassert management of the important transport lane, Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino rebuffed him.
“Every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zones is part of Panama, and it will continue to be,” he mentioned in a video launched in December.
Earlier than even taking workplace, Trump has already set off worldwide friction with Denmark, Panama, Canada, and the UK. Who will likely be subsequent?
