Trump’s plans to turn Canada, Greenland and Panama Canal into US territory
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President-elect Donald Trump has again suggested buying Greenland from Denmark, making Canada the ’51st state’ and taking back the Panama Canal. His calls add to the list of allied countries he has picked fights with before taking office on January 20.
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After naming his ambassador to Denmark, Trump wrote: ‘For purposes of national security and freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.’. This weekend, he also suggested the US could take control of the Panama Canal if rising shipping costs are not addressed between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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He also said Canada could become the 51st US state and referred to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the ‘governor’ of the ‘Great State of Canada’. Trump recently posted that ‘Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State’- adding an image of himself superimposed on a mountaintop surveying surrounding territory next to a Canadian flag.
Trudeau suggested that Trump was joking about annexing his country, but the pair met recently at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida to discuss Trump’s threats to impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods. Greenland, the world’s largest island, sits between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. It is 80% covered by an ice sheet and is home to a large US military base.
