It can be safely said that US President Donald Trump is not exactly By capturing many foreign leaders these days.
Only in the last few days he clashed with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy I He stopped his American military assistanceI launched Trade war with CanadaIN Mexico and Chinaand ridiculed Lesotho In his first speech to Congress, claiming that “no one has ever heard about” the country.
And in the comments of Trump to Congress on Tuesday he repeated his plans Panama AND Greenlandcausing a quick rejection of the leaders of these countries.
“To improve our national security even more, my administration will regain the Panama channel,” said Trump to applause. “The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others,” he added.
Trump directly referred to the Greenland a week before the Islanders who would go to parliamentary elections, saying that “they will welcome you in the United States of America.” Then he said that his administration “cooperates with all committed to get it”, referring to his wishes to acquire Greenland from Denmark, a long -term US ally.
“We really need it for international world security. And I think we'll get it. We'll get it in one way or another, “said Trump.
US President Donald Trump again spoke on Tuesday about the possibility of taking over Greenland – the autonomous Danish territory – saying that the US will welcome him in America: “I think we'll get it. Anyway, we'll get it.
Trump lies: President Panama
President Panama, Jose Raul Mulino, said that Trump “was lying once again” in Post on X on Wednesday morning.
“I reject, on behalf of Panama and all Panamans, this new picture of truth and our dignity as a nation,” he wrote in Spanish.
“The Panama channel is not in the process of recovering … The channel is Panama and it will still be Panama!”
Trump's comments to the Congress appeared after the agreement was announced by the American company Blackrock earlier on Tuesday for the purchase of a majority of $ 22.8 billion from the Hutchison Hutchison conglomerate of Hong Kong CK Hutchison, which includes assets along the Panama Canal.
Mulino said on Wednesday that the so -called “recovery” of the Trump channel was not part Discussions with the Secretary of State Marco Rubio During the last visit or with any other US official.
Daniel Fried, the Weiser Distinguished Fellow family in the Atlantic Council and a former assistant to the Secretary of State in Europe, Wrote on the website of the Atlantic Council on Wednesday Trump's comments can be considered “full of hope” because at least he doesn't attack Panama.
“This is full of hope because it suggests that instead of invasion of Panama to take over the channel, Trump can call him a victory, if the key infrastructure associated with channels was in the United States, not Chinese hands. It can be a rough way to achieve a good business, “Fried said.
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“Greenland is ours”
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Greenland stated on Wednesday that “Greenland is ours” and cannot be taken or bought.
Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egeded said that the citizens of the island are neither American nor Danish because they are Greenland. The United States must understand this, he wrote in a post in Greenland and Danish Facebook Wednesday, adding the future of Greenland will be decided by his people.
“We don't want to be Americans or Danes; we are Greenlanders. Americans and their leader must understand this. We are not for sale and we cannot simply be taken. Our future will be settled by us in Greenland – he wrote in the post.
At theja Nathanielsen, Minister of Natural Resources, Equality, Business and Justice, said Guardian The fact that Trump's comments show “a fundamental disrespect for us as a nation, for our historical relationship with these lands and for our democratic institutions.”
“Listening to American legislators giggle in statements such as” we will get them in one way or another “, is disrespectful,” she said, referring to laughter in Congress – and from JD Vance Vice President – When Trump said he had news for “Greenland residents”.
“As an American, I am deeply ashamed of my head of state, his party and its weak opposition party. I hope that you are able to gain Greenland independence and stop the imperialist attempt to annex my country, “someone wrote in the comments to Egede's post.
Many in Greenland, a vast and rich in a mineral island, which is a semi -automatic territory of Denmark, worries and insults Trump's threat associated with taking control of their homeland.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, in an interview with TV2 broadcaster, repeated Egeded, repeating that Greenland is not for sale. She said that Denmark would like to keep her community, but it is a community that should be improved thanks to equality and respect.
Last month, Frederiksen told journalists That “we were very clear … that everyone must respect the sovereignty of all national states in the world, and today's Greenland is part of the kingdom of Denmark.”
“This is not for sale.”
Fried with the Atlantic Council, He wrote that Trump repeated his threat to take over Greenland “Shame and appointing.”
“The threat, in the nineteenth -century imperial style, does not develop US interests”, wrote, explaining that the dishes “explained that she would be pleased to accommodate the military or commercial interests of the United States in Greenland.”
“But this is not a way of Trump: he prefers to grab and exert strict power.”
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Lesotho comments “quite offensive”
As for Lesotho, the African country Trump joked “no one has ever heard”, his foreign minister said that his attention was “quite offensive”.
“I am really shocked that my country may be so canceled by the head of state,” said MPotjoane Reuters.
Trump mentioned some of the foreign expenses, which he perceived as a “waste”, including “eight million dollars for the promotion of LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho, which no one has ever heard of.”
On Wednesday, the head of the Main Association of Rights 2SLGBTQ+ Lesotho denied that he had ever received $ 8 million from the USA
“We literally do not receive a subsidy from the USA,” said the spokesman of the Matrix Tampose Mothopng people AFP.
Meanwhile, someone who definitely heard about Lesotho is the billionaire Elon Musk, one of Trump's key advisers. Musk was born not only in South Africa, which surrounds Lesotho, but his internet Satellite Satellite service applied for a license to act in lesotho.
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