Trump says US should retake the Panama Canal if they do not lower the transit fees.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5052505-trump-panama-canal-fees/

45 comments

  4. This idiot just picks random fights to make it look like he’s trying.

    What a twat.

  6. Why not the Suez, too, while we are at it.

    And Guadle. Don’t forget to take Guadle Canal back, as well.

  7. Not even in office and I’m already exhausted. God, this is going to be a long four years.

  8. President to be threatens another country will illegal seizure of their sovereign territory….. Now what other world leader does that remind me of?

  9. Well, they need a new “Trump Canal” now that Kimberly Guilfoyle is doing Greece 4000 miles away

  10. So far he has threatened severe tariffs on most of Asia, most of Europe, and all of North America. He has threatened war with Canada, Mexico and Panama, while also threatening to leave our alliance (NATO) and our alliance with South Korea.

    Could he at least threaten China and Russia at some point? Maybe North Korea. I mean he will run put of allies and major trade partners to antagonize and get to them eventually…right.

  13. As a Canadian I’m somehow glad we are not the only country he wants to annex

  15. So, free market capitalist advocating for government price controls?

  16. “If the principles, both moral and legal…”

    Yeah, like he know all about principles .

  17. It looks like he’s become obsessed with the idea of expansion. I wonder which friend of his gave him that idea.

  18. Panama is raising fees because the canal is failing due to climate change. No matter who claims ownership of the canal, the reservoir that makes the canal function is replentished by rain, which isn’t falling.

  19. He’s so fucking dumb. 

    Just the dumbest mother fucker ever. 

  20. I think the only rational response to this is “lol”

  21. We’re starting a new game called Trump Says. You make three statements of Trump Says. The person after you has to say if all three are false, all three are true, or all three are who knows because whatever Trump says was either a joke, misquoted, liberal news, fake news, not true, true, or he doesn’t remember. Feel free to lie your ass off.

  23. The Panama Canal was not begun under Teddy Roosevelt.
    Roosevelt was only 24 years old when the canal construction began in 1881.
    Frenchman, Ferdinand de Lesseps was the chief engineer. Construction stopped in 1889 when financing dried up due to high death rates among the workers.
    The US took over completion of the canal after a massive mosquito eradication reduced malaria deaths to an acceptable level.

  25. This is all distraction. You always have to look to see whose pocket he’s picking when he does this. The alternative is that he says something provocative to distract from something stupid he has done or some policy failure he’s promoted

  26. So he has Threatened to even a country in North America and now Central America. Does anyone want to take bet if we will Threatened to invade a South American country? And which one? (my money is on Venezuela).

    MMW we are going to invade somewhere in the Americas in the next 4 years.

  27. Someone tell that dumb ass that the climate change that he denies is making the water to raise ships harder to come by. If he takes it he is going to have to figure out where to get more water.

  28. The man has an insatiable urge to invade, or at least annex, some country, any country, or countries, like his idol, Putin. I hope saner minds with some level of influence over him can keep that from happening.

  29. Yep. Recouping Panama Canal fees will pay for, checking notes, deportation, tariffs, healthcare, our military, billionaire yachts, and concepts of some plan. Let’s do it!

  30. There’s your man republicans. Wants to bully and rob one of the tiniest countries in the world with the mightiest military in the world for financial gain. Does anyone wonder why he gets alone with Putin and Kim Jong Un?

  32. I’d like to know how the Panama Canal made it into one of his five neural pathways. Random tweet he saw? Something some rich Mar a Lago hanger-on mentioned? Random memory of a long ago history class he somehow managed to retain?

  35. With the exception of the US Navy there are almost no US flagged ships using the canal, so why in the world is he pissed about transit fees?

  36. So the “no wars” guy just suggested invading another country and seizing their sovereign territory…

    Saw that coming. 

  37. Can’t help but think he’s just mad that Panama refused to help him when he lost his hotel there and this is his revenge: https://apnews.com/general-news-381aedfac3d449f7b8263c3e124adb88

  38. This joker going to go after Greenland again? Tell him Norway gave Greenland to Southway.

  39. Mr “no new wars” and he’s already threatened trade war with the world, and invasion and annexation of Canada, bombing of Mexico and invasion of Panama.

    And he’s not even been sworn in yet. Amazing

  41. This is a childlike understanding of how the world works.

  42. How does someone this objectively stupid exist? And why did President Musk pick him for vp?

  43. This babbling baboon is gonna make Panama rise prices on US ships only.

  44. Just like Putin, Trump thinks the world belongs to him, and he had the right to just seize any land he wants. The United States gave up any ownership of the Panama Canal when Carter was in office. Trump has no right to take it back. It belongs to the Panamanians, not the US. Trump can’t just declare that he’s taking it back.

  45. Panama should double the fees for America and let the world know that it’s because of Trump’s threats. They should also offer to halve them if Trump prints a full and acceptable apology that airs on Fox News.

    Trump has zero leverage here and should be called on his aggressive bullshit or he’ll just keep doing it.

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