The US President-elect also said he would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and vowed to reverse a ban on offshore drilling announced by President Joe Biden yesterday.
Asked directly whether if he could assure the world that he would not seek to use military or economic coercion in trying to get control of Greenland or the Panama Canal, Trump responded: “I can’t assure you – you’re talking about Panama and Greenland. No, I can’t assure you on either of those two. But I can say this, we need them for economic security.”
Greenland’s Prime Minister, Mute Egede, responded to the comments last month, saying: “Greenland is ours”, adding: “We are not for sale and will never be for sale.”
Donald Trump Jr arrives in Nuuk, Greenland on Tuesday (Photo: Emil Stach/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
His eldest son, Donald Jr, is currently visiting Greenland, apparently in a private capacity.
The Canal “was built for our military”, he said. “I’m not going to commit to that now. It might be that you’ll have to do something
Asked later whether he would also use the military against Canada, which he has also floated the US acquiring, Trump replied: “No, economic force.”
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He added that the US and Canada united would amount to an “economic force” that would “really be something”.
Another country in Trump’s sights is Mexico, which he has accused of doing too little to stop migration into the US at its southern border.
“It covers a lot of territory,” he said of the Gulf. “‘The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name.”
Trump will be inaugurated as president on 20 January.
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