Announces that it will rename the Gulf of Mexico, which will be called the “Gulf of America”
MADRID, 7 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, stated this Tuesday that he cannot rule out at this point that he will have to resort to military or economic pressure measures to be able to control the Panama Canal or the Greenland archipelago, an Arctic territory dependent on Denmark and in which the magnate has shown interest to the point of considering its purchase.
“No, I cannot rule out either of those two” measures, Trump said in an appearance before the media at his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida. “What I can say is that we need (the Panama and Greenland Canal) for our economic interests,” added the president when responding to a question about both enclaves.
Trump has said that the way the Panama Canal is currently configured “is a disgrace.” In this sense, he regretted that former President Jimmy Carter gave up control of this strategic crossing for one dollar, “supposedly” in exchange for the United States “being treated well.”
“It was a big mistake,” stressed the winner of the November elections, who has acknowledged that a plan is already on the table to try to regain control of the channel.
Trump also intends to leave his political mark on toponymy and has proposed that, when he returns to the White House, the United States will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico, which will be called the Gulf of America — “what a beautiful name,” he highlighted. during his appearance–. He believes that the change is “appropriate”, in an attempt to distance himself from a country, Mexico, which he has once again urged to stop the flow of “millions” of migrants.
Otherwise, Mexico risks new tariffs, as Trump has warned again, and he has also threatened economic measures against its northern neighbor, Canada.
The tycoon, who took advantage of his appearance to announce an investment of 20,000 million dollars to build data centers in the United States, has claimed the supposed economic strength during his first presidential term and has charged against the current Administration, advancing, for example, that he will reverse Joe Biden’s veto of oil and gas extraction on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
He has also said that, with him as president, “there were no wars”, since it was he who “defeated the Islamic State”, and has pointed out that the American withdrawal from Afghanistan encouraged the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to invade Ukraine, a conflict that the tycoon promised to solve during the campaign and that, now, he believes “could escalate and be much worse than it is.”
In the Middle East, it has once again called on the Palestinian militia Hamas to release before January 20 all the hostages it has held since the attacks of October 7, 2023, since otherwise “all hell will break out.”
“STUDY” PARDONS
In terms of internal politics, the president-elect has accused the Government of “using the judicial system as a political weapon”, in a new allusion to the multiple judicial fronts that it has open and that, according to the magnate, lack any support. In addition, it has disgraced the current Administration for not complying with the “smooth” transition that it promised after the elections.
A day after Congress certified his electoral victory, Trump has confessed that he is “studying” pardoning people already convicted of storming the Capitol exactly four years ago, when a mob broke into the main legislative headquarters coinciding with the validation of the victory. of Biden in the 2020 elections.