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MAGAfest Destiny? Trump flexes his muscles with repeated talk of American expansionism

by January 8, 2025
written by January 8, 2025

President-elect Donald Trump not only wants to make America great again, he 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 nation’s 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.’

While he said he would only use ‘economic force’ to convince Canadians to join the U.S., he would not rule out military force when it comes to Greenland, the massive ice-capped island in the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans that for centuries has been controlled by Denmark, and the Panama Canal, which the U.S. ceeded control of to Panama over 40 years ago.

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

His comments came as Donald Trump Jr., the president-elect’s eldest son, 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. 

‘There is a lot of support among the people of Greenland that Greenland is not for sale and will not be in the future either,’ Frederiksen said.

Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, also shot back at Trump’s musings.

‘Canada will never be the 51st state. Period. We are a great and independent country,’ he emphasized in a social media post.

Additionally, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also returned fire at Trump’s threat to use ‘economic force’ to absorb Canada, saying there is not ‘a snowball’s chance in hell’ of Canada becoming the 51st state.

Trump’s recent mocking of the longtime Canadian prime minister, repeatedly referring to him as ‘governor’ along with his threat to impose massive tariffs on Canada, was likely a contributing factor in Trudeau’s resignation announcement earlier this week.

It was not just Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal.

Trump even pledged during his press conference to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to 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 are immediately forcing world leaders to react and respond, and likely will foreshadow the blunt effect his second administration will have on the globe.

‘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 across the world. We’re the only country capable of pushing back against China, and it’s time we started 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 diplomat at the State Department 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 change the paradigm and repel Chinese and Russian economic expansion in our own hemisphere, he needs to speak boldly about exerting American influence in the region.’

‘Already, you have seen just how his mastery of the bully pulpit has expedited a political earthquake in Canada. This ensures that America remains dominant in our own backyard, which puts America’s interests first, expanding our trade and security cooperation,’ Mowers argued.

Not everyone obviously agrees with Trump’s muscular approach.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, America’s top diplomat in President Biden’s administration, appeared to take aim at the president-elect.

‘I think one of the basic propositions we brought to our work over the last four years is that we’re stronger, we’re more effective, we get better results when we’re working closely with our allies. Not saying or doing things that may alienate them,’ Blinken said Wednesday at a news conference.

Blinken predicted that ‘the idea expressed about Greenland is obviously not a good one. But maybe more important, it’s obviously one that’s 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’ which it claimed ‘has left him more focused on invading Greenland than on lowering costs and growing the economy for the American people.’

‘While Trump is distracted by bizarre threats against our allies and busy doling out favors to his billionaire Cabinet picks, Democrats are focused on standing up for working families and making sure they don’t get stuck with the bill from Trump’s reckless agenda,’  DNC spokesperson Alex Floyd charged.

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