Speaking to reporters less than two weeks before he takes office on Jan. 20 and as a delegation of aides and advisers that includes his son Donald Trump Jr. is in Greenland, Trump left open the use of the American military to secure both territories.

“I’m not going to commit to that,” he said, when asked if he would rule out the use of the military. “It might be that you’ll have to do something. The Panama Canal is vital to our country.” He added, “We need Greenland for national security purposes.” Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, a longtime U.S. ally and a founding member of NATO.

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    2 months ago

    New us territory - Greenland

    51st state - Canada

    52nd state - Mexico

    53rd state - Panama

    54th state - UK

    55th state - ???

    Put it in your bets folks.

    • @fluxion
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      182 months ago

      Lol at the prospect of Trump giving Canada and Mexico full statehood with voting rights. He can’t even handle letting existing states have voting rights.

    • @SkybreakerEngineer
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      82 months ago

      Canada, Mexico, Panama

      Haiti, Jamaica, Peru! Republic Dominican, Cuba, Caribbean, Greenland, El Salvador too!

      • Bizzle
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        22 months ago

        Michigan is the promised land can they take Illinois too

    • @bitchkat
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      32 months ago

      Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories. So let’s add that many states.

    • @I_Has_A_Hat
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      22 months ago

      They’re not going to go after Mexico. They’re going after Canada/Greenland because global warming is inevitable and the melting permafrost is going to make previously frozen land/resources in the North more accessable. Panama is for the canal.

      Plus, if they go after Mexico, who will they blame for all the country’s problems?