David Lammy dubs US Greenland ambitions as ‘classic Donald Trump’

David Lammy dubs US Greenland ambitions as ‘classic Donald Trump’. Source: Sky News

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00:00We've seen in recent days by the president-elect Donald Trump

00:04towards Greenland, towards Panama Canal.

00:07I'm sure you've seen them.

00:09Do you think that's classic Donald Trump?

00:11Yes, I do think it's classic.

00:13It's not something that worries you?

00:15It's classic Donald Trump.

00:16Look, I think that what sits behind Donald Trump is he's

00:21just won an election.

00:2277 million people voted for him, up in nearly all

00:26classifications, including, by the way,

00:27African-Americans and Latinos.

00:30He came in very clearly saying he was

00:32going to work for working people.

00:34And he sees Americans' national economic security

00:40as centering that.

00:42That is why he's raising issues in relation to the Panama Canal

00:47and, I suspect, to Greenland.

00:49He always amplifies that and does it at its most,

00:54at its strongest intensity.

00:56I'm not in the business of condemning our closest ally.

01:03I am in the business of interpreting

01:06what sits behind this.

01:07And there are some very serious national economic security

01:11issues.

01:12That's the basis on which Donald Trump has won his election.