Greenland, Panama fiercely reject Trump’s ambitions in address to Congress

Leaders from some Greenland and Panama issued messages Wednesday fervently rejecting the comments made by President Donald Trump during his code to Congress successful which helium again reiterated his ambitions to drawback clasp of the strategically important areas.

Trump has made wide helium intends to "acquire" some Greenland and the Panama Canal, and antecedently refused to regularisation retired subject involution to execute his expansionist goals.

In his associated code to Congress, the president said his medication had already taken steps to "take back" the Panama Canal and reiterated his propulsion to get Greenland, which is presently a territory of Denmark.

TRUMP SAYS AMERICA WOULD WELCOME GREENLAND DURING JOINT ADDRESS TO CONGRESS

President Donald Trump addresses a associated league of Congress astatine the U.S. Capitol connected March 4, 2025 successful Washington, DC (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

TRUMP LOOKS EAST

Trump spoke straight to Greenland successful his code Tuesday nighttime and said, "We powerfully enactment your close to find your ain future, and if you choose, we invited you into the United States of America."

"We volition support you safe. We volition marque you rich. And unneurotic we volition instrumentality Greenland to heights similar you person ne'er thought imaginable before," helium added.

Trump past said his medication was "working with everybody progressive to effort to get it."

"We request it truly for planetary satellite security. And I deliberation we’re going to get it," helium continued. "One mode oregon the other, we’re going to get it."

GREENLAND’S RESPONSE

Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede on Wednesday made wide helium is neither funny successful American oregon Danish ownership.

"We do not want to be Americans, nor Danes, we are Kalaallit (Greenlanders). The Americans and their person indispensable recognize that," Egede said successful a station connected Facebook translated by Reuters. 

"We are not for merchantability and cannot be taken. Our aboriginal is determined by america in Greenland," helium added.

Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede (left) and President-elect Donald Trump (right). (Getty Images | Fox News Digital)

TRUMP LOOKS SOUTH

Trump’s comments regarding the Panama Canal Tuesday nighttime were conscionable arsenic nonstop erstwhile helium said, "My medication volition beryllium reclaiming the Panama Canal."

"We've already started doing it," he added.

Trump has claimed China has taken implicit the important waterway arsenic a Hong Kong-based institution operates ports connected either extremity of the canal — which the medication has claimed could chopped disconnected the U.S. from the canal if Beijing directed it to. 

However, Panama has repeatedly rejected the assertion that China runs the canal.

PANAMA AGREES TO END CANAL DEAL WITH CHINA AFTER RUBIO VISIT

The Marshall Islands cargo vessel Cape Hellas (L) and the Portuguese cargo vessel MSC Elma sail connected Gatun Lake adjacent the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal successful Colon City, Panama, connected Dec. 28, 2024. (ARNULFO FRANCO/AFP via Getty Images)

"Just today, a ample American institution announced they are buying some ports astir the Panama Canal and tons of different things having to bash with the Panama Canal and a mates of different canals," Trump said.

Trump's comments were successful notation to a $23 cardinal BlackRock Inc.- TiL Consortium woody made with Hutchison Port Holdings, the Hong Kong conglomerate, announced connected Tuesday.

The consortium, made up of BlackRock Inc., Global Infrastructure Partners and Terminal Investment Limited, would get "90% interests successful Panama Ports Company (the "PPC Transaction"), which owns and operates the ports of Balboa and Cristobal successful Panama," according to a Tuesday press release.

PANAMA’S RESPONSE

But Panama’s president took contented with Trump’s comments saying successful part, "Once again, President Trump, is lying."

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, waves aft being welcomed by Panama's Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha, left, upon his accomplishment astatine the statesmanlike palace successful Panama City, connected Sunday, Feb. 2. Panama is Rubio's archetypal travel overseas arsenic Secretary of State. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

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"The Panama Canal is not successful the process of being restored, and this is surely not the task that was adjacent discussed successful our conversations with [Secretary of State] Rubio oregon anyone else," Panama President José Raúl Mulino said successful a station connected X. "I reject, connected behalf of Panama and each Panamanians, this caller affront to the information and to our dignity arsenic a nation. 

"It has thing to bash with the ‘recovery of the Canal’ oregon with tarnishing our nationalist sovereignty," helium added.  "The Canal is Panamanian and volition proceed to beryllium Panamanian!"