Since winning a second presidential term, Donald Trump has made a curious pivot to a kind of performative imperialism. Immediately after November’s election, he began musing about acquiring Greenland from Denmark, which has no interest whatsoever in parting with the territory. His menacing gestures began to escalate. Trump has started taunting Canada by referring to its prime minister as a “governor” and vaguely threatening annexation. He began demanding a return of the Panama Canal, which the United States ceded more than four decades ago.Today, during a press conference, Trump announced that he would rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” When a reporter asked if he would disavow military and economic coercion in his efforts to seize Greenland or the Panama Canal, he declined to rule out either. “No, I can’t assure you on either of those two,” he mused. “I’m not going to commit to that. It… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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