Donald Trump gave a speech to a bunch of right-wing Turning Level USA freaks on Sunday, during which he threatened to take management of the Panama Canal, spewed harmful anti-vaccine rubbish, stated he would as soon as once more identify navy bases after Accomplice traitors, and appeared irritated on the “co-president” chatter about Elon Musk.
The speech in Phoenix was the headline of Turning Level USA’s AmericaFest 2024, which celebrated Trump’s victory and the approaching Christian holidays with speeches from accused statutory rapist Matt Gaetz; Russian puppets Tucker Carlson, Tim Pool, and Benny Johnson; and convicted felon Roger Stone, amongst others.
Trump rehashed the best hits of his marketing campaign rallies, together with the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him and the lie that undocumented immigrants are escaping psychological establishments to come back to america. It wouldn’t be a Trump speech to his echo chamber if he didn’t denigrate windmills.
He additionally made some new weird and incendiary feedback.
For one, Trump threatened to take again the Panama Canal from Panama.
“We’re being ripped off at the Panama Canal like we’re being ripped off everywhere else. He just said ‘take it back,’ that’s a good idea,” Trump stated, referring to a shouted suggestion from a random viewers member.
Trump continued: “It was given to Panama and to the people of Panama, but it has provisions — you’ve got to treat us fairly. And they haven’t treated us fairly. If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America in full, quickly, and without question. I’m not going to stand for it. So to the officials of Panama, please be guided accordingly.”
Panama’s president already responded to Trump’s remark.
“As president, I want to clearly state that every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjoining zone is Panama’s and will remain so,” Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino stated on Sunday, based on Politico. “The sovereignty and independence of our country is non-negotiable.”
That is the third nation Trump has threatened with annexation since November’s election, together with Canada and now Greenland—which Trump wished to purchase throughout his first time period in workplace, an thought which Greenland’s prime minister has rejected.
It’s as if Trump is seemingly taking a web page from his favourite dictator hero Vladimir Putin, who Trump stated he’ll probably meet with “as soon as possible” after he’s inaugurated.
However again to AmericaFest. After threatening sovereign nations, Trump went on to spew anti-vaccine rubbish, falsely accusing vaccines of resulting in elevated autism diagnoses—when it’s truly developments in autism understanding, remedy, and acceptance that has led to extra diagnoses.
“Look, something is going on here. When you look at, like, autism from 25 years and you look at it now, something is going on, and I nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” Trump said, referencing the anti-vaccine lunatic who has vowed to go after life-saving vaccines and convey again lethal viruses.
Trump additionally urged that the rising narrative that right-wing billionaire Musk is working the present is clearly getting below Trump’s pores and skin. Musk practically led the nation right into a authorities shutdown final week, after tanking a bipartisan funding settlement over a misunderstanding of what was within the invoice.
“No, he’s not gonna be president, that I can tell you,” Trump said of Musk. “And I’m safe—you know why? He can’t be, he wasn’t born in this country. Haha.”
Lastly, Trump stated he needs to rename Alaska’s Denali to Mt. McKinley, after former President William McKinley, whose disastrous tariff insurance policies Trump needs to convey again. Former President Barack Obama in 2015 formally named the mountain Denali, the identify Native Alaskans had used for years earlier than it was renamed Mt. McKinley in 1917.
“They took his name off Mount McKinley,” Trump lamented.
“He was a great president,” Trump added, saying he’ll “bring back the name of Mount McKinley because I think he deserves it.”
Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski didn’t reply kindly to Trump’s thought.
In a put up on X, Murkowski wrote: “There is only one name worthy of North America’s tallest mountain: Denali – the Great One.”
