00:00Go ahead, please.
00:01Q Mr. President, thank you.
00:02I wanted to touch on the world on fire.
00:03Your references to Greenland and the Panama Canal and so forth, can you assure the world
00:04that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic
00:05coercion?
00:06THE PRESIDENT.
00:07No.
00:08Q And can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is?
00:09What is the strategy in that?
00:10THE PRESIDENT.
00:11I can't assure you.
00:12You're talking about Panama and Greenland.
00:13No, I can't assure you.
00:14I can't assure you.
00:15I can't assure you.
00:16I can't assure you.
00:17I can't assure you.
00:18I can't assure you.
00:19I can't assure you.
00:20I can't assure you.
00:21I can't assure you.
00:22I can't assure you.
00:23the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military
00:28or economic coercion?
00:29THE PRESIDENT.
00:30No, I can't assure you.
00:31I can't assure you.
00:32I can't assure you.
00:33I can't assure you.
00:34I can't assure you.
00:35I can't assure you.
00:36I can't assure you.
00:37It has to be up front.
00:40I can't offer you a view.
00:44Look, the Panama Canal is viable to our country.
00:49to our country.
00:50It's being operated by China.
00:53China.
00:54And we gave the Panama Canal to Panama.
00:56We didn't give it to China.
00:58And they've abused it.
00:59They've abused that gift.
01:00It should have never been made, by the way.
01:02Giving the Panama Canal is why Jimmy Carter lost the election, in my opinion, more so
01:07maybe than the hostages.
01:08The hostages were a big deal.
01:10But if you remember, and nobody wants to talk about the Panama Canal now because, you know,
01:14that's inappropriate, I guess, because it's a bad part of the Carter legacy, but he was
01:21a good man.
01:22Look, he was a good man.
01:23I knew him a little bit, and he was a very fine person.
01:26But that was a big mistake.
01:27Sir, real fast.
01:28You said you were considering military force to acquire Panama and Greenland.
01:29Are you also considering military force to annex and acquire Panama?
01:37No.
01:38Economic force.
01:39Because Canada and the United States, that would really be something.
01:45You get rid of that artificially drawn line, and you take a look at what that looks like.
01:49And it would also be much better for national security.
01:51Don't forget, we basically protect Canada.
01:54But here's the problem with Canada.
01:56So many friends up there.
01:59I love the Canadian people.
02:01They're great.
02:02But we're spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it.
02:06We're spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada.
02:10We lose in trade deficits.
02:12We're losing massive.
02:13We don't need their cars.
02:14You know, they make 20% of our cars.
02:16We don't need that.
02:17I'd rather make them in Detroit.
02:19We don't need the cars.
02:20We don't need their lumber.
02:21We have massive fields of lumber.
02:23We don't need their lumber.
02:25We have to unrestrict them, because stupid people put restrictions on, but I can do that
02:30with an executive order.
02:32We don't need anything they have.
02:33We don't need their dairy products.
02:35We have more than they have.
02:36We don't need anything.
02:37Why are we losing $200 billion a year and more to protect Canada?
02:43Well, we need Greenland for national security purposes.
02:46I've been told that for a long time, long before I even ran.
02:49I mean, people have been talking about it for a long time.
02:52You have approximately 45,000 people there.
02:56People really don't even know if Denmark has any legal right to it.
03:01But if they do, they should give it up, because we need it for national security.
03:04That's for the free world.
03:05I'm talking about protecting the free world.
03:08You look at — you don't even need binoculars.
03:11You look outside, you have China ships all over the place.
03:15You have Russian ships all over the place.
03:18We're not letting that happen.
03:20We're not letting it happen.
03:22And if Denmark wants to get to a conclusion — but nobody knows if they even have any
03:27right, title, or interest.
03:29The people are going to probably vote for independence or to come into the United States.
03:33But if they did, if they did do that, then I would tariff Denmark at a very high level.
03:37Have you asked your staff to draw up plans for acquisition?
03:40I mean, are you acting on that?
03:41No, not at that stage.
03:42But we have people — I haven't even entered office yet.
03:45We have a massive deficit with Mexico.
03:48And we help Mexico a lot.
03:50They're essentially run by the cartels.
03:53And can't let that happen.
03:57Mexico's really in trouble.
03:58A lot of trouble.
03:59A very dangerous place.
04:03And we're going to be announcing at a future date, pretty soon, we're going to change — because
04:09we do most of the work there, and it's ours — we're going to be changing sort of the
04:14opposite of Biden, where he's closing everything up, essentially getting rid of $50 to $60
04:20trillion worth of assets.
04:21We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which
04:29has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory.
04:33The Gulf of America, what a beautiful name.
04:36And it's appropriate.
04:37It's appropriate.
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