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President-elect Donald Trump not only does he want to make America great again, he seems to be looking to make America greater.
Trump has turned up the volume in recent days on his calls to acquire Greenland, regain control of the Panama Canal and do canada the nation’s 51st state.
The president-elect on Tuesday night once again poked fun at America’s neighbor to the north, posting on social media two doctored maps that showed Canada as part of the United States.
“Canada and the United States. That would be something,” Trump said hours earlier at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. “They should be a state.”
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President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
A day earlier, the president-elect argued in a social media post that “a lot of people in Canada LOVE being the 51st state.”
While he said he would only use “economic force” to convince Canadians to join the US, he would not rule out military force when it comes to Greenland, the large ice-covered island in the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans that during centuries it has been controlled by Denmark and the Panama Canal, which the US ceded control to Panama over 40 years ago.
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“They should give it up because we need it for national security. This is for the free world. I’m talking about protecting the free world,” Trump said of his long-standing ambitions to acquire Greenland.
His comments came as Donald Trump Jr.the president-elect’s eldest son, took a day trip to Greenland, flying aboard Trump’s campaign plane.
Donald Trump Jr., second from right, poses after arriving in Nuuk, Greenland, on January 7, 2025. (EMIL STACH/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images)
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen hit back, saying Greenland had made it clear it is not for sale.
“There is a lot of support among the people of Greenland that Greenland is not for sale and will not be for sale in the future,” Frederiksen said.
Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, also reacted against Trump’s reflections.
“Canada will never be the 51st state. Period. We are a great and independent country,” he stressed in a post on social networks.
Also, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also responded to Trump’s threat to use “economic force” to absorb Canada, saying there’s not a “snowball’s chance in hell” that Canada will become the 51st state.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, met with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida last month to discuss issues including the economy, illegal immigration and a proposed of 25% tariff. (Justin Trudeau X)
Trump’s recent mockery of the longtime Canadian prime minister, repeatedly referring to him as “the governor” along with his threat to impose massive tariffs on Canada, was likely a contributing factor to the announcement of Trudeau’s resignation earlier this week.
It wasn’t just Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal.
Trump even pledged during his press conference to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.”
While Trump’s efforts at American expansion, which has a prominent place in the nation’s history, may never come to fruition, they immediately force world leaders to react and respond, and will likely herald the ‘resounding effect that his second administration will have on the world.
“I think what he’s doing is setting the tone for the next four years, which is that America is the dominant superpower in the world. We’re the protector of freedom and democracy around the world. We’re the only country capable of pushing We’re coming back against China, and it’s time to start acting like we’re that country,” veteran Republican strategist and communicator Ryan Williams told Fox News.
Matt Mowers, a veteran GOP national public affairs strategist and former State Department diplomat during the first Trump administration, emphasized that “Donald Trump has adapted Teddy Roosevelt’s mantra for the 21st century and ‘speaks loudly tall and carries a big stick.’ He recognizes that to change the paradigm and reject Chinese and Russian economic expansion in our own hemisphere, he must speak boldly about exercising American influence in the region.”
“You’ve seen how his dominance of the bully pulpit has precipitated a political earthquake in Canada. This ensures that America remains dominant in our backyard, putting America’s interests first, expanding our trade cooperation and security,” Mowers argued.
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Obviously, not everyone agrees with Trump’s muscular approach.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the top US diplomat in President Biden’s administration, appeared to take aim at the president-elect.
“I think one of the core propositions that we’ve brought to our work over the last four years is that we’re stronger, more effective, we get better results when we work closely with our allies. Not saying or doing things that can alienate them.” , Blinken said Wednesday at a news conference.
Blinken predicted that “the idea being expressed about Greenland is obviously not a good one. But perhaps more importantly, it’s clearly not going to happen. So we probably shouldn’t waste a lot of time talking about it.”
The Democratic National Committee accused Trump of having a “pathetic Napoleon complex” that it said “has left him more focused on invading Greenland than on cutting costs and growing the economy for the American people.”
“While Trump is distracted by outlandish threats against our allies and busy handing out favors to his multibillion-dollar cabinet picks, Democrats are focused on standing up for working families and making sure they don’t get stuck with the Trump’s Reckless Agenda,” DNC. spokesman Alex Floyd charged.
