Could Trump's Panama Canal threats backfire?

[@matthewhartt5887]

He has to find it first!

[@Eclipse503]

Most Americans can't locate it on a map, including trump. 😂😂😂

[@whowhy9023]

@@Eclipse503. Since you are so clever… What is the Capital of California (the world’s 5th largest economy)? What about the capital of Florida? New York State? You had to google it didn’t you 😂😂

[@ImmuneToTrollHate]

@@whowhy9023 Sacramento and no I don't live in California I'm just old enough that public education still taught us things

[@ragingmonk6080]

@@Eclipse503 "Most Americans can't locate it on a map, including trump. " Americans no the map better than any other country. Watch the videos about Europeans and Russians that have traveled to America. We school them on things in their own country. We didn't get to the top of the food chain by being ignorant. But your country is not up here with us.

[@sahilprasai9869]

​@ragingmonk6080, your hegemony is long gone. Welcome to the multi polar world, greetings from BRICS!

[@snowrose101]

He's just making threats because he doesn't want to pay the back taxes he owes Panama on 2 of his Panama hotels. If that court case disappears, so will his threats.

[@sommmeguy]

That is probably misinformation, but it sounds so true. What is your source for that?

[@donjohnson7899]

Double the fee for American ships to pass. FDT

[@fordnut4914]

Make up more lies

[@snowrose101]

@ Newsweek, 13 hours ago. Google: "Trump Panama hotels," if you actually want to know the truth.

[@snowrose101]

@@fordnut4914 If you're not afraid, Google "Trump Panama hotels." Newsweek is a good source but there are others.

[@petermontgomery8707]

"I didn't realise until recently that this canal was built by the Americans" 🙄. How can anyone listen to anything here and take it seriously when they're that ignorant? How can you get past the age of 12 and still be that uninformed?

[@billwhitis9997]

Ask Trump

[@petermontgomery8707]

@ we already know what Trump thinks about the ignorance displayed here.He’s often pointed out the fake news.He was pointing bit out long before they exposed themselves by being quite so blatant and before citizen journalism took quite such a hold and could show the contradictions and outright lies quite so clearly.The MSM couldn’t get away with misrepresenting trumps comments on Charlottesville by missing half of the quote now.That would be exposed in 2024

[@lproth]

@@billwhitis9997billionaire, are you? Not that smart I guess?

[@yovita1707]

That’s what I thought 🤣 and is not Daran is Darien 🙄

[@johncody2209]

Be born in England

[@MayOdinGuideYou]

"We're still here ... We are not going anywhere." - Native Americans 🙁

[@WWTin2024]

Natives will be fine when Americans take back the canal.

[@hopeparker5288]

The question is have you scalped anyone yet, lately???

[@Panamenalumbee6557]

@@WWTin2024 lol, you sound so uneducated

[@peterpreston5439]

Will he invade Panama? Will he invade Canada? Will he invade Mexico? Will he abandon the EU? Better bring back conscription.....

[@lovepeacenappiness1]

When did Trump say he will invade any of these countries ? America is pretty much saying F these freeloaders.

[@TrendyStone]

Negotiation. He’s negotiating. How is this so complicated for you?

[@knightsnight5929]

​@@TrendyStone Nope, they are threats from a lowlife idiot. How hard is this for you people to understand?

[@davidcat1455]

@@TrendyStone Like he “negotiated” his casinos?😂😂😂

[@jfrancobelge]

@@TrendyStone That's not negotiating, that's threatening... except that the whole world doesn't know yet if it should laugh or cry at Trump. There are big talks in Europe these days about how far and how fast we should distance ourselves from the US, politically, economically and militarily, distance ourselves from the now toxic alliance with the US.

[@longandshort6639]

Panama will double to charges for US bound shipping to pay for additional security measures against potential attack from the US

[@Nick-kn6il]

😂

[@Nick-kn6il]

He'll definitely take it then.

[@jose6183]

@@Nick-kn6il Then no one around the world will take America seriously. He did campaign on the idea for "no new wars". I think it will undermine his position in the long term, and it would encourage other nations to actually take China as an ally.

[@grantsmith505]

​@@Nick-kn6il No new wars Don the Dove

[@jimjackle2739]

How is Panama gonna charge the US anything, because we are taking our canal back. If they don't hand it back over, and we have to send in our military, we might be taking their whole freaking country and making it a US state.

[@davidjordan2011]

This whole "reclaim the Panama Canal" thing should finally demonstrate that trump is a total megalomaniac and entirely unintelligent, that is to anyone who hasn't already figured that out over the last decade.

[@HJY-v6h]

This is a big claim, and I'm not sure about the accusations. A man who has been elected by a large majority of Americans cannot be qualified as unintelligent. I agree that Trump, unlike most politicians, is unnecessarily provocative at times and unwilling to control his verbal diarrhoea.

[@Travis_22]

Nah... he's just a very good troll, who has over-sensitive liberals frothing at the mouth with ease 😂👍

[@bad_dog4648]

@@HJY-v6h 'A man who has been elected by a large majority of Americans cannot be qualified as unintelligent' or perhaps a large majority of Americans are unintelligent?

[@Lololeelee]

So true. Trump is a narcissist.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@Travis_22 Don't I remember something about the Rhineland, Austria, the Sudetenland, Munich, et al? Did anyone vote to give authority for those actions? When you get an authoritarian in power those sorts of things tend to happen.

[@rainfinger]

Panama is Roberto Duran country, having trained Naval Seals in jungle warfare, trying to take it back will show one thing about Donald Trump: The boy ain't right.

[@bobbyderen5661]

Cheaper rates will not lower prices but mean higher profits for Billionaires.

[@billcrampton]

The Trump Organization has a tax evasion case in Panama

[@mariannegiesler9159]

BINGO

[@Gangstar41145]

Lol yeah totally justifies invading it. 😴🤣

[@filrabat1965]

That I did not know! It definitely sheds light on matters.

[@Gangstar41145]

@filrabat1965 Yeah because any sane person would potentially risk WW3 over a tax evasion case. Talk about room tempurature IQ. 🥱🤣

[@BlueJazzBoyNZ]

Ask Prez Musk his First Lady Donatella isn't in control..

[@asdfasdfasdf4746]

Better then unelected kamala😂

[@TesterAnimal1]

@@asdfasdfasdf4746if you’re a billionaire, sure. Are you? 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@timetravelr3000]

Dec. 20, 1989 the United States invaded Panama to topple General Manuel Antonio Noriega...not the 70s. You breezed over why the United States gave back sovereignty over the canal zone to Panama. There was unrest and violence. This led to the Panama Canal treaty of 1977. Also China doesn't own the ports. A Chinese company operates the ports for Panama.

[@faithlesshound5621]

If we are talking about the history of Panama going back to when the US took over work on the canal in 1904, it would not be much of a stretch to look back to 1903, when the US helped American settlers separate the future country from Colombia, of which it had been a part. The treaty surrendering the future canal zone to the US "in perpetuity" was made with staff of the French canal company without the presence of a single Panamanian, the day before a Panamanian delegation arrived in Washington. Over the past century and a half the US has repeatedly invaded and occupied most countries in Central America, and many in the Caribbean. That's the so-called "Monroe Doctrine" of 1823 in action. It was basically "Power comes out of the barrel of a gun" coupled with a grandiose ambition to establish a Greater Yankeestan.

[@glennhopkins2643]

The US is the rightful owner of the Panama Canal.

[@stevem647]

So what you're saying is the US acted like every other major power in Europe in colonizing non-European nations. Don't let a little hypocrisy get in the way of your smug tone.

[@faithlesshound5621]

@@stevem647 In the 20th century, only the Axis powers and the USA were making new colonies. Lenin may have seen imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism, but his analysis was out of date. Neocolonialism became the name of the game.

[@johnandrews3568]

@@glennhopkins2643 WRONG... it was legally given to the country of Panama. Any attempt to seize control is an act of war. The US can't unilaterally invade a sovereign country. Unless you know, they figure that US oil somehow, magically appeared under Panamanian soil or they figure Panama has weapons of mass destruction.

[@lproth]

@@faithlesshound5621ask the Baltic and Central Asia about Russian/soviet colonialism?!

[@hughmacleod459]

My God, the man with his life-saving bone spurs, is one tough hombre. The rest of the world is next. The vice president knows no bounds!

[@jsmith7701]

So. Many. Snowflakes.

[@slimjimnyc270]

@hughmacleod459. Vice President??? Trump is a former President, not VP.

[@Eclipse503]

​​@@slimjimnyc270president Musk, VP trump 😂. If you prefer, you can also call First Lady trump.

[@slimjimnyc270]

@Eclipse503 My wish is that Trump will identities as a woman so the Republicans can claim they elected the first woman President (instead of the Democrats). ;-) If Trump had promised that, I would have voted for him.

[@garyblake1237]

Mr Tough guy who dodged doing his service in Vietnam, calls US dead service men suckers; is going to send US troops to war?

[@marketads1]

The world laughs at Trump and he’s the last to see he’s the joke.

[@Chips505]

Lol! You're actually the joke. You think this is 2016. You're gonna need educate yourself on how much leaders are falling over themselves to reach out to him this time around. I assure you he is not a joke this time around. Stop watching mainstream media my friend. They lie on a diabolical level.

[@joanne4758]

Kindof laughing - you never know what he's going to pull out of his bucket list next.

[@thrlfwbbl8038]

> The world laughs at Trump and he’s the last to see he’s the joke. I don't think think people in the Americas outside the US will find this funny, what with Trump being in charge of the US military soon and Congress having turned the US presidency into some kind of electoral Kingship since WWII where the are almost no real constraints anymore if you are willing to ignore traditions and precedent like Trump is. Plus he's 70 million or so people behind him who seem to be literally willing to deny that the sky is blue if he told them so and who also for the most part would probably applaud attempts to subjugate other countries if they believed it would lower their grocery bills, especially if it involved people from South of the border.

[@ricardosmythe2548]

Only a fool under estimates the commander in chief of the worlds most powerful armed forces

[@AsaSavadphayphane]

The world repeck MR trump...

[@MikeR-pq8qe]

These edits with out of context half sentences at the start of times videos are ridiculous.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

It seems a lot of people in these post seem to have forgot 1989. The USA has invaded and overthrown a government before and could simply do it again and never leave making the whole country a USA colony. Look at how many times during the 20th century the USA did that to Caribbean nations.

[@telebubba5527]

@@gregorybiestek3431 And Putin would really love that!

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

@@gregorybiestek3431 I mean let's be open and honest. If the USA decides in 2025 that the Canal is now going to be theirs. Who will honestly oppose them, I don't mean letters of complaint sent or grumbling speeches, but will is going to honestly have a stand off with the US Navy...The answer is No one. In about a year the world will move on like it never happened.

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@telebubba5527 Most likely.

[@pk9822]

As i see it. He can bark, spit, threaten, demand all he wants. But he has no legal right to go in and claim it. If he is going to do something, his only option is to take it by force, if peaceful negotiations fails.

[@mstsp9546]

Don't bank on Trump knowing anything except his bank accounts.

[@justinkauffman731]

Who knows what a demented person with power will do?

[@ericerven5456]

Giving credibility to Mr Trump is like getting advice from a three old Lots of words - no substance

[@JackJackJack123]

Only POTUS in more than 60yrs to shrink the wealth gap, only POTUS in more than 40yrs with no new wars, only POTUS this century to successfully prevent Russia from invading a European neighbor, brokered more Israeli:m/Muslim peace deals than all other American presidents COMBINED, and he’s the only POTUS in recorded history to take no salary and leave office with less money than he entered with. On Panama, it actually amazes me how European media STILL doesn’t understand Trump when all they’d have to do is read the Art of the Deal to understand exactly what he’s doing here. He believes Panama has been ripping the United States off and this is his opening offer. He’s not actually going to invade Panama. He’s just posturing to get Panama to a negotiation table. He did this EXACT same thing repeatedly in his first term. It worked. Our lives were better and unlike under Obama and Biden the world wasn’t engulfed in flames. Frankly, had Europe just listened to him during his first term this entire war in Ukraine and war in Gaza would’ve been completely avoided. Unfortunately, Europe took the same smug and condescending posture towards him that you’ve exhibited today and as a result all of your countries are poorer and the continent has endured a bloody war in Ukraine for nearly the entire duration of Biden’s presidency. The hatred of Trump in the UK is the most bizarre given that he LOVES the UK, his family keeps investing hundreds of millions in the UK, and he wants to cut a totally free trade deal with the UK, an offer he’d NEVER extend to anyone else. Yet, you hate him and dismiss him which has just opened the door for him to be better friends with other countries instead of your own. My best guess is that’s because elitists, like yourself, aren’t hurting financially so you have the luxury of not helping your own people just to spite President Trump. Best of luck with that strategy. Every other country on the planet envies Trump’s love for your country and yet you just spit in his face and now you’ll be left behind. Well done.

[@michaelprotiva1819]

Already Colombia and Mexico have come to Panama's side by pledging full support of their sovereignty. A statement from Colombia's President: ‘Until the Last Consequences I will be on Panama’s Side’: Colombian President Petro Supports the Country in the Face of Trump’s Statements. If he thinks it is expensive to pay to pass the Panama Canal in the hands of Panamanians, it will be much more expensive to plunge Panama, South America, Central America or Mexico into poverty,” he said. The Colombian president added: “If they don’t want us in the US, we must make all of the Americas prosperous in independence, freedom and democratic dignity.” Already Colombia and Mexico have come to Panama's side by pledging full support of their sovereignty, including military support. A statement from Colombia's President: ‘Until the Last Consequences I will be on Panama’s Side’: Colombian President Petro Supports the Country in the Face of Trump’s Statements. If he thinks it is expensive to pay to pass the Panama Canal in the hands of Panamanians, it will be much more expensive to plunge Panama, South America, Central America or Mexico into poverty,” he said. The Colombian president added: “If they don’t want us in the US, we must make all of the Americas prosperous in independence, freedom and democratic dignity.”

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

Empty threats from skeleton militaries.

[@boota1979]

@@RomanHistoryFan476AD America only ever attack lesser countries!

[@thrlfwbbl8038]

​@@RomanHistoryFan476AD Right. See Afghanistan. Except with a combined population of 180million people. Right at your door step. Columbia until 5 minutes ago used to be one of the closest allies the US has in the Americas. What this is really is a last warning to come to your senses before basically the whole of the Americas will start thinking about building anti-US military alliances. Continue down this insane path and expect China to have deals with major South American countries for military bases with a year. You cannot really think that Latin America will just bow to US threats of war, can you?

[@lovepeacenappiness1]

So wait, Columbia, Panama, and Mexico will fight the US? I guess they could defeat the US, they do have tons of illegal immigrants in the US or headed that way?

[@hammedtijani]

​​@@RomanHistoryFan476ADyou're very ignorant, of course you're a American

[@jmpattillo]

He’s not even in office yet and he’s blowing up our relationship with Canada, Panama, and Denmark.

[@bethbautista8544]

Canada now Panams . Someone should advice him to shut up .

[@goenzoy712]

Shut up? . He only does X farts

[@AlexanderDantonio]

Advise...giving advice. Merry Christmas.

[@rmdomainer9042]

Greenland too. Why anyone would choose allegiance to the flag and nutty evangelism over being a comfy Dane is probably something that Trump could not understand.

[@otisdylan9532]

And Mexico too.

[@judy879]

And now Greenland. World is watching. He is such a bully. He is loosing friends. Whole world will be turning away from USA.

[@charlessmyth]

The Panama canal transit fees are a long way from countering the effect of the proposed tariffs on the consumers of the US, Like the 170 of Congress who told Trump to get a grip and "bring it" with regard to Trump and Musk's threats of Primaries, Trump will have the UN and the Security Council to deal with

[@TryDiy]

Does the UN have an army?

[@Vgdtyy780]

What's all the fuss? It's never going to happen. Just even more gobbledegook from Trump.

[@koiguidenishikigoi4972]

Probably what Sulaimani thought before visiting Bhagdhad 😅

[@larryhyde8003]

It's a waste of time, money and resources - bad management (the kind that kills countries)

[@Chris-zu4es]

if he says this now he will never act against Putin. he basically wants to do the same thing

[@RobertSpibey]

Trump is starting to pound the american war drums. Take him seriously.

[@hitthedeck4115]

It's kinda refreshing in a way that the US is moving on from the puppet master behind proxy wars to the one who takes the center stage.

[@jamesgreen1116]

And all the pathetic bootlicking puppet countries like Britain will have to obey their master and join them. Woof woof lapdog.

[@trekmanone1]

Yes, he's becoming the fascist dictator he promised during voting. You elected him.

[@UsaFreedom18]

We are not at war with Panama. Congress has to give that authority

[@gregorybiestek3431]

Don't I remember something about the Rhineland, Austria, the Sudetenland, Munich, et al? Did anyone vote to give authority for those actions? When you get a authoritarian in power those sorts of things tend to happen.

[@UsaFreedom18]

@ forgive me, but are you speaking of WWII? Wasn’t the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and a few days later Germany and Italy declared war on the US.

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

Did not stop the US in the 90s, or during the war on terror.

[@UsaFreedom18]

@ you are correct

[@UsaFreedom18]

@ and it’s 2024, a lot has happened

[@kevinpatrick5925]

Everything he does will backfire

[@petermontgomery8707]

So the opposite of last time he was president. Why do you think it'll be different this time?

[@carolkidd-j6s]

He’s an old washed up reality show has been. Not presidential material

[@flyboymike111357]

The Canal Treaty gives the US the right to use military force to ensure neutral access to the canal.

[@TrendyStone]

Simplistic explanation. The French made almost no progress on the canal and all investors lost out. The US struggled until the steam shovel was invented AND they solved the malaria problem that was killing all the workers by identifying the mosquito that spread it. The US gifted the canal to Panama on specific conditions specified in the treaty, which, to be fair to Trump, Panama has indeed violated, because the treaty mandates equal access to all nations and the Chinese company that now runs the canal is giving preferential treatment to certain countries, like China. Thus Trump is right to complain. He won’t invade; he’s negotiating. He starts with the extreme and moves to something both sides can agree to. That’s his MO.

[@billwhitis9997]

LOL! Yeah, you go with that.

[@VladimirPutin-p3t]

Get your facts straight before posting Einstein.

[@TrendyStone]

@@VladimirPutin-p3t Which part is wrong?

[@joannacurran8475]

Panama here - well you can always go across your own country and go into whatever ports prevent you not going through the canal. It is 35 years, on December 20, just passed since USA invaded Panama. Never again.

[@jasonkruse2553]

Never again… 😂 Panama doesn’t even have a traditional army. Don’t pretend like it would be any contest at all.

[@juanpablohurtadolopez6986]

@@jasonkruse2553 I dare asking. why is threatening to invidade a sovereign democratic nation, that means no harm to any other , such a funny matter to you?

[@stephenrobshaw4931]

​@jaswrionkruse2553 childish..

[@lovepeacenappiness1]

@@juanpablohurtadolopez6986quick question, who built the Canal?

[@jasonkruse2553]

@@juanpablohurtadolopez6986like we haven’t arrested their president before. Play ball or pay the consequences

[@johntillotson4254]

All this caos is a smokescreening

[@bad_dog4648]

*chaos, have a 🥔

[@Unknown24466]

Trump may want UK to be ‘51st US state’

[@hughmacleod459]

i thought that was Canada?

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

Take him over the Granny freezer.

[@NO-CASH478]

@@hughmacleod459 and Greenland and Mexico too. Not Puerto Rico though....

[@martystamey69]

I'd say Canada would love to be a 51st state

[@exhaustedcoffee2603]

@NO-CASH478Mexico will actually fight back u like the canadians

[@sjm3430]

Panama will be forced to lower their fees in order to avoid a military confrontation. This will be a win for the USA and most western countries.

[@AquaAdventure-o5v]

This guy is a bit hazy on dates and details, the U.S. took over the construction of the Panama Canal in 1904 and invaded Panama in December 1989 during the George H.W. Bush administration.

[@RANSOME99]

"Will trump invade Panama?" Is legit hilarious 😂

[@traildoggy]

"Trump Invades Panama" will be his next AI generated hero collectors card/NFT issue. Only $99 each for the complete set of 12.

[@jtfmfhp7080]

@@traildoggyAnd he can sign the arms for more

[@jaydenchrist6152]

@@RANSOME99 Just the next iteration of the "What will Trump Invade series" by times radio.

[@RANSOME99]

@jaydenchrist6152 I hope he finds Sasquatch... gets distracted with that or something.

[@TR-mg1eq]

and sadly very probable.

[@craigmiller4528]

No Nobel Peace Prize for YOU !

[@marketads1]

You win the Comment Prize!!

[@joanne4758]

Who thought he would make Times Cover of the Year.!!! I'm sure Elon can buy Nobel Prize!!!!

[@ericerven5456]

Reducing the fees charged by Panama will hardly offset a large tariff - the math does not work !!

[@VladimirPutin-p3t]

No trump math actually works... It just has to look good in Facebook memes.

[@pauleades9037]

Trumpski is taking a leaf out of Putin's book!

[@UsaFreedom18]

@@pauleades9037 and putin is in a world of hurt right now, trump should take note. putin is crumbling and so is the russian ruble

[@skybot9998]

The United states under the hay - herran treaty 1903 and Columbia gives the United states the right to the land and to build the canal. Enough said.

[@trent3727]

The English also funded the building of the Suez Canal. Too bad, so sad. Panama is not an American land.

[@robertmcdonnold3038]

You give trump way too much credit for knowing anything.

[@lordfreerealestate8302]

YES YES and YES. As a Canadian, we stand by our brothers and sisters in Panama. If Trump goes to war (trade or otherwise) with other nations we stand together. ✊🍁

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

The USA did it before in 89, they can do again in 2025. And no one will stop them, the EU might sent angry letters, so might the rest of NATO but no one will lift a finger.

[@fjtpersian6566]

In 1989 Noriega had no support but it’s a different matter now and their is so many people with guns in Panama .

[@Donkeynoob7777]

100% correct. Trump and Elon are omnipotent. Get ready for magnificent changes.

[@marketads1]

Why would the European Union say anything about the Panama Canal? Why would NATO?

[@marketads1]

@@fjtpersian6566. The US took action on behalf of other democratic states to apprehend the criminal Noriega.

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

@@marketads1 Their leaders love a good virtue signal.

[@whowhy9023]

Panama will do what they are told. They have no choice. Removing Panama flag from every Russian owned ship is a no brainier. A 25% discount for US ships would be easy because they are few.

[@louisflaherty7616]

War crime.

[@stevenhenry5267]

So embarrassing being an American right now. Idiocy and ignorance won in November.

[@lhyksus6113]

And most probably the one saying this is ignorant and an idi0t.

[@jillal-fuhaid1763]

Welcome to the Mad Hatters tea party. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@TrendyStone]

Simplistic explanation. The French made almost no progress on the canal and all investors lost out. The US struggled until the steam shovel was invented AND they solved the malaria problem that was killing all the workers by identifying the mosquito that spread it. The US gifted the canal to Panama on specific conditions specified in the treaty, which, to be fair to Trump, Panama has indeed violated, because the treaty mandates equal access to all nations and the Chinese company that now runs the canal is giving preferential treatment to certain countries, like China. Thus Trump is right to complain. He won’t invade; he’s negotiating. He starts with the extreme and moves to something both sides can agree to. That’s his MO. Note also that 70% of the ships that use it are going to or from the US.

[@stewartweir3425]

What a total embarrassment Trump should be to every citizen of the USA.

[@docsoulman9352]

He’ll have to take the canal and Greenland to compensate for returning Alaska to Putin😅

[@majorsynthqed7374]

The U.S. still has a contracted right to intervention in the Canal Zone for various reasons. People don't know this? Do people actually think Trump is going to do everything he says he will do? If you answer "yes", you are a fool and have not paid attention to how he has operated over the past 50 years.

[@joehernandez2461]

Panama doesn't have the resources to go it alone. It's either China ( which is there now). Or America, time will tell.

[@kenhnsy]

No mention of the price increase when Panama took over?

[@rmdomainer9042]

Supply and demand. They can set whatever prices they want. Anything else would be communism.

[@alexvaraderey]

There wasn't one when they took over. They kept the same prices as the U..S. had charged. The first price increase wasn't until 2012.

[@alexvaraderey]

@@zonian1966 Your initial comment was that they increased prices when they took over, which is not correct. They did announce in 2006 that prices would be going up, but that increase didn't come in until 2012. I'm not aware of a 2008 price increase. Nor is google.

[@alexvaraderey]

@@zonian1966 ''My initial comments said nothing of the sort'' Your initial comment - ''No mention of the price increase when Panama took over?'' Also, check the comment thread - i said 2012, not 2021. Have you got a half-hour memory?

[@pietromaximov6838]

@@zonian1966 That was for all users of the canal, not just the USA, are you trying to tell me that the great world power doesn't know what supply and demand is?

[@gersonhay984]

Don't talk about what he says, Just Talk about what he's Done.

[@VladimirPutin-p3t]

Hmmm, let's see.... He crashed the economy, put millions out of work, drove us 8.3 trillion further into debt, and told Americans to drink bleach. Did I miss anything?

[@ragingmonk6080]

America is listed as #1 strongest military in the world. Panama is ranked #134. Do you consider sending 100 US troops an actual invasion, because that is all it would take.

[@NO-CASH478]

a man, a plan, a canal, panama. ('s a palindrome. )

[@VladimirPutin-p3t]

Racecar!

[@MySpace662]

The neutrality treaty does give the U.S. the right to act if the canal’s operation is threatened due to military conflict, but not to reassert control. (US can fix that situation)

[@TR-mg1eq]

Sorry but the argument is slightly wrong. You place a tariff on a car from China to encourage Americans to buy locally made cars. You don't put a tariff on the China car and then try to make it cheaper, despite the tariff, by improving the supply chain.

[@aaugoaa]

No he wants a deal.

[@OutdoorsMyLife]

First Canada, now Panama, what's next Greenland, oh wait Greenland is next.

[@otisdylan9532]

Mexico too

[@bieituns]

Trump once again is ahead of the curve.

[@PenelopePitstop0078]

I’ve an alternate theory about DJT. He’s a histrionic, w/ a secret demise wish. Forever in U.S. history, that’s his wish.

[@hoaxheaven]

So everyone pays Panama gvnt to use the canal?

[@ianmuir3640]

Yes

[@hoaxheaven]

@ianmuir3640 Cha-ching.🤑

[@hoaxheaven]

@@zonian1966 Why was the Panama Canal Company supposedly "non-profit" as they claim 😆 instead of for-profit? 🤔

[@hoaxheaven]

@zonian1966 Why doesn't France want control over the canal...🤔 Why is Trump the only one trying to gain control over the canal? Why not just go back to joint control if anything. Trump is a tyrant always trying to show off and just makes a fool of himself again.

[@pietromaximov6838]

@@hoaxheaven Because the gringos have always seen the canal as a military asset, while Panama sees it as a commercial asset.

[@-Katastrophe]

People who can't take a joke are the best

[@tecumseh4095]

Ooh so he’s joking about everything even mass deportation? Got it

[@naguoning]

Is the real question not will he invade Greenland, or maybe Liechtenstein if he knows it exists.....

[@michealnagy5763]

Read President Trumps book. That would give you some idea what his goal is.

[@geofo60]

The book he didn't write ? That one ?

[@michealnagy5763]

@ actually the book he wrote. The art of the deal. Might want to read it.

[@johnandrews3568]

@@michealnagy5763 he didn't write that book. FACT. Trump's never read a book, let alone write one. FACT.

[@michealnagy5763]

@ wrong!

[@alexisnogueras9400]

The American stole the Panama canal go look it up. And I'm an American. I know my history.

[@G-Man-half-life]

We Americans did not steal the Panama Canal we built it and funded it there’s a very big difference.

[@richardorsulich4698]

The US could close the gap in 10 minutes and there’s fk all anyone could do about it

[@billwhitis9997]

The Mump Regime may invade Panama, but the US military will not be going with them.

[@fahmad7194]

Hadn't he come to stop the wars

[@telebubba5527]

Nope!

[@althepalno1164]

He needs a war because he likes to surrender (like he did to the Taliban) and betray the historical allies of the US.

[@otisdylan9532]

That's what his supporters claimed, but he didn't do that n his first term either.

[@neverquit6939]

The 77/79 Panama Canal Treaties are illegal under both Panama and US International law because: A treaty between these 2 countries can only be made with the elected President of each country, and Omar Torrijos was a Dictator who was not legally elected but took the position of leader / "General" by unelected force. So, on that one point, the entire Panama Canal 77/79 treaties are invalid, and full ownership of the Canal Zone and Panama Canal is still under U.S. ownership. Even the Supreme Court in Panama states that the 77/79 Panama Canal Treaties are unconditional and invalid. So, if the US wants to take it back, they can 100% do that. Read the book CANAL GATE by Samuel Stoll, it only lists the facts on every argument imaginable, with actual copies of all actual documents. Please forward this on to others.

[@billwhitis9997]

Not much on History are you?

[@geomatm]

According to the 1977 Treaty the US has the indefinite right to protect the Panama Canal. The treaty also stipulates the canal should be neutral. The referenced trade deal between Panama and China could be viewed as a violation of the Treaty. China already controlling the canal is a violation.

[@koconnor]

China controlling the canal. That's news to me. I live in Panama and I have never heard this. Please tell me more. I love a good yarn this time of year.

[@geomatm]

@koconnor the company that manages for the Panama Government is Hutchison Ports PPC, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings

[@koconnor]

@@geomatm There is a big difference between a port and a canal. I don't know how you could get the two confused.

[@geomatm]

​@koconnor i tried posting a link to an article by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In which it discusses this. The investments from China plus controlling the main ports gives China great influence and de facto control over the Canal. It degrades the neutrality clause of the treaty and puts Panama in violation of the 1977 treaty. If this is to complicated for you that's ok.

[@koconnor]

@@geomatm My wife is right. Arguing with strangers and idiots on the internet is not good for my health. You can't educate pork. Seasons greetings to you.

[@MARKD-sk4jo]

Posturing 😮

[@piroska5552]

Let him try,and we´´ll see what happens.

[@boota1979]

Stop American hegemony.

[@felipearbustopotd]

Looks like the 45th is attempting a Putin-esque type of diplomacy, as in, using the barrel of a gun as leverage.

[@filrabat1965]

As a multigenerational on all sides of my family US citizen (and other than ideology, of MAGA demographic besides), I can answer that question for you. Among sane Americans with the slightest clue of social awareness and caring about others, YES it will backfire. In 2024 RepubliKKKan MEHR-Kuh, not in the slightest. MEHR-Kuns are more devoted to Trump and MAGA than to Jesus. Don't believe me? Tell me how Jesus would have all of us live like and compare that to Conald Dump!

[@alexisnogueras9400]

He's a mafia crime boss. It's that simple

[@greghemlock6679]

He can order the navy to order a quarantine on each or one end of the canal and stop it completely. That way they don’t actually have to take it over.

[@johnburns6422]

What is the difference between Putin and Trump ? Zero

[@punkinhoot]

When this is the news, disinformation is a welcome distraction.

[@dennisfarris4729]

So far as I know there's very little American flagged transport, I'd expect the carriers are too big to even use the canal.

[@alexvaraderey]

73% of the ships going through the canal are American. They're by far the biggest user.

[@dennisfarris4729]

@alexvaraderey really, that's an awful lot of Union sailors.

[@zintek123]

@@alexvaraderey stop going by trump numbers, that's the boats that go to the usa , not USA flagged ships inform yourself and don't go by the first numbers you see number you see

[@alexvaraderey]

@@zintek123 Inform yourself, buddy. Why would i be using Tump numbers? I'm using Wiki & The Maritime Post. The cost of goods arriving in the U.S. are affected by tariffs and also extras such as canal charges, which are charged to the ship carrying the goods, no matter what flag it is under, so i don't know why you've brought up that irrelevant point. Now i've seen it all - attempted condescension from a 14 year-old, on the wrong point.

[@Dogsnark]

Excellent idea. Send trump to Panama!

[@ramonc4313]

Why is this dude talking about europe. He is not european, he is northern european. Is that even real Europe.

[@joshuaweaver5284]

No,No he will not.

[@hildablanco1591]

Cuba north Korea Salvador Nicaragua Bolivia and Colombia won't be happy with drug restrictions and the communist trade

[@PaulL-h5f]

The US invaded Panama in 1989

[@user-hc2vy4zs9s]

😂😂😂take back everything Regrouping and reconstructing Economy assets

[@Etheral101]

So far hes threatened to take Canada, Panama and Greenland

[@jaydenchrist6152]

He couldn't take Canada or Greenland even if he wanted to because then he'll have to go to war with all of NATO. Also Trump says a lot of things can't take him literally on every word. Trust me I'm american I hear him every day.

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Trump.is brilliant.

[@danmayberry1185]

Brilliant as the Continental Army he said captured all the airports. Around 1780.

[@jdocean1]

Trump is a imbecile and so are his supporters.

[@davidcat1455]

Brilliant like a bleeding haemorrhoid?

[@billwhitis9997]

Maybe in comparison to yourself.

[@isoljator]

only in your fever dreams, buddy

[@MakateRapulana]

Take the Canal to the US.. you cannot control what is not on your soil.

[@holgermessner851]

20.12.1989 invaded the USA Panama.

[@brianmccabe2430]

He would not be abel to point it out on the map.😂

[@abschmit]

Didn’t Trump fashion himself as the antiwar candidate?

[@asdfasdfasdf4746]

It could....but Trump aint no chump.

[@thecommentor1064]

Simple, sell or GIVE the USA parallel-land to build another wider parallel-canal.

[@ricojones2556]

Time for regime change …….😂😂😂😂😂😂 THE CIA…….ARE WAITING IN THE WINGS ?

[@billwhitis9997]

They took out Kennedy for less.

[@michaelellard4664]

It would be an unlawful act.

[@petersmithm9]

It was only earlier this year I found out the canal was a North- South route not East-West.

[@johncronin7875]

He said no wars, didn’t he….MAGAs please explain.