Leaders from Greenland and Panama issued messages on Wednesday, glowing by rejecting the president’s comments Donald Trump During addressing the congress in which he reiterated his ambitions to catch strategically important areas.
Trump made it clear that he intended to “gain” both Greenland and the Panama Channel, and previously refused to exclude military intervention to achieve his expansionist goals.
In a joint address to the Congress, the President said his administration had already taken the steps to “return” the Panama Channel and repeat its pressure on the acquisition of Greenland, which is currently a the territory of Denmark.
Trump says America would welcome Grenland during a joint address to the congress
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on US Capitol 4 March 2025. In Washington, DC (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Trump looks east
Trump spoke directly with Greenland on Tuesday night and said, “We strongly support your right to determine our own future, and if you decide, we welcome you in the United States of America.”
“We’ll keep you safe. We’ll make you rich. And together we’ll take Grenland to heights as you never thought it was possible before,” he added.
Trump said then that his administration “works with everyone involved to try to get it.”
“We need really for international world security. And I think we’ll get it,” he continued. “One way or the other, we’ll get it.”
Greenland’s response
Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egeda made it clear on Wednesday that he was not even interested in American or Danish ownership.
“We don’t want to be Americans, nor are Danes, we are Kalaallit (Greenlanders). Americans and their leader have to understand it,” Egede said in a Facebook post that was translated by Reuters.
“We are not for sale and we cannot take us. We determine our future at Greenland,” he added.
Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egeda (left) and elected President Donald Trump (right). (Getty Images | Fox News Digital)
Trump looks south
Trump’s comments regarding the Panaman Channel on Tuesday night were equally direct when he said, “My administration will regain the Panaman Channel.”
“We started doing it already,” he added.
Trump claimed that China took over an important waterway because a company based in Hong Kong manages ports at any end of the channel-for that administration claimed it could cut off now from the canal if Beijing instructed it.
However, Panama repeatedly rejected the claim that China was running the canal.
Panama agrees to complete the channel contract with China after a visit to Rubio
Marshall Islands, RT Hellas (L) freight and Portuguese cargo ship MSC Elma sail on Lake Gatun, near the Agua Clara Brave from the Panaman Channel in City Cologne, Panama, December 28, 2024. (Arnulfo Franco/AFP via Getty Images)
“Just today, a large American company has announced that they buy both ports around the Panaman channel and many other things have to do with Panama Canal And several other channels, “Trump said.
Trump’s comments were over $ 23 billion Blackkck Inc.
The consortium, which made Blackkkkc Inc., Global Infrastructure Partners and Terminal Investment Limited, would gain “90% of interest in Panama Ports Company (” PPC transaction “), which owns and manages Balboa and Cristobal ports in Panama” a statement.
Panamine’s answer
But Panamin’s president dealt with Trump comments To say in part: “Once again, President Trump, lies.”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to the right, waved after Panama’s foreign minister greeted him by Javier Martinez-Ach, left after arriving at the Panama City Presidential Palace on Sunday, February 2nd. Panama ruined his first trip abroad as a Secretary of State. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
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“The Panaman Channel is not in the renewal process, and this is certainly not a task that was discussed at all in our conversations [Secretary of State] Rubio or anyone else, “Panama President José Raúl Mulino said in a post about X.” I reject, on behalf of Panama and all Panamanians, this new attack of truth and our dignity as a nation.
“It has nothing to do with the” channel recovery “or with the outline of our national sovereignty,” he added. “The channel is Panamanac and will continue to be Panamanian!”
