MAGAfest Destiny? Trump flexes his muscles by repeatedly talking about American expansionism

President-elect Donald Trump not only does he want to make America great again, he seems to want to make America greater.

In recent days, Trump has turned up the volume on his calls to take over Greenland, regain control of the Panama Canal and make Canada 51st nation state.

The president-elect trolled America’s northern neighbor again Tuesday night, posting two fake maps on social media showing 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 the state.

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A day earlier, the president-elect claimed in a social media post that “many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st country.”

While he said he would only use “economic force” to persuade Canadians to join the US, he would not rule out military force when it comes to Greenland, a huge ice-covered island in the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans that has been under Danish control for centuries and the Panama Canal, over which the US ceded control to Panama more than 40 years ago.

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“They should give it up because we need it for national security. It’s for the free world. I’m talking about protecting the free world,” Trump said of his longtime ambitions to to acquire Greenland.

His comments came as Donald Trump Jr.the eldest son of the president-elect, was on a day trip to Greenland, flying on the Trump campaign plane.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen responded by saying that Greenland had made it clear that it was not for sale.

“There is a lot of support among the citizens of Greenland that Greenland is not for sale and will not be for sale in the future,” Frederiksen said.

Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, also echoed Trump’s thoughts.

“Canada will never be the 51st country. Period. We are a great and independent country,” he stressed in a post on social media.

Additionally, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau he also fired back at Trump’s threat to use “economic force” to absorb Canada, saying there was not a “snowball’s chance” of Canada becoming the 51st state.

Trump’s recent taunting of Canada’s longtime prime minister, repeatedly calling him “the governor” along with his threat to impose heavy tariffs on Canada, likely contributed to Trudeau’s resignation announcement earlier this week.

It wasn’t just Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal.

During his press conference, Trump even promised to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “American Gulf”.

While Trump’s efforts at American expansion—which feature prominently in the nation’s history—may never bear fruit, they are prompting world leaders to react and respond immediately, and are likely to foreshadow the harsh effect his second administration will have on the world.

“I think what he’s doing sets the tone for the next four years, which is that America is the dominant superpower in the world. We’re the protectors of freedom and democracy around the world. We’re the only country capable of pushing back against China, and it’s time to start act like we’re that country,” veteran Republican strategist and communications expert Ryan Williams told Fox News.

Matt Mowers, a veteran GOP national public affairs official and former State Department diplomat during Trump’s first administration, emphasized that “Donald Trump has adapted Teddy Roosevelt’s mantra for the 21st century and ‘speaks loudly and carries a big stick.'” He recognizes that to shift the paradigm and reject Chinese and Russian economic expansion in our own hemisphere, he must speak boldly about the exercise of American influence in the region.”

“You’ve already seen how his mastery of the bully pulpit has precipitated a political upheaval in Canada. It’s ensuring America remains dominant in our own backyard, putting America’s interests first, expanding our trade and security cooperation,” Mowers argued.

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Not everyone apparently agrees with Trump’s muscular approach.

secretary of state Antony Blinken, the top US diplomat in President Biden’s administration, appears to have taken aim at the president-elect.

“I think one of the basic propositions that we have brought into our work in the last four years is that we are stronger, that we are more effective, that we achieve better results when we work closely with our allies. Not saying and not doing things could alienate them,” Blinken said at a news conference Wednesday.

Blinken predicted that “the idea expressed about Greenland is clearly not good. But more importantly, it’s clearly not going to happen. So we probably shouldn’t waste a lot of time talking about it.”