President-elect Donald Trump May Be Eyeing a Bigger America
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President-elect Donald Trump not only wants to make America great again, but also appears to be angling to make America bigger. Trump has turned up the volume in recent days on his calls to acquire Greenland, regain control of the Panama Canal, and make Canada the 51st state.
The president-elect on Tuesday night once again trolled 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 really 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.”
A day earlier, the president-elect argued in a social media post that “many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State.”
Trump also expressed his longtime ambitions to acquire Greenland, the massive ice-capped island in the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans that for centuries has been controlled by Denmark. “They should give it up because we need it for national security. That’s for the free world,” he said.
Donald Trump Jr., the president-elect’s eldest son, even made a day trip to Greenland, flying aboard Trump’s campaign airliner. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen responded, saying Greenland had made it clear that it is not for sale.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre also quickly dismissed Trump’s musings. “Canada will never be the 51st state. Period. We are a great and independent country,” Poilievre said.
Not everyone agrees with Trump’s muscular approach. Secretary of State Antony Blinken cautioned that working closely with allies is more effective and gets better results, while the Democratic National Committee accused Trump of having a “pathetic Napoleon complex” and called his actions “bizarre.”
