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Donald Trump has sought to make everything he controls bigger.
By Maggie Haberman and Jess Bidgood
President-elect Donald Trump is still a week away from taking office, but he is still thinking about forcing Canada into the U. S. The U. S. government has been able to obtain Greenland and the Panama Canal at the same time, refusing at one point to rule out the use of military force in two specific areas. cases, he made a surreal prologue to his second administration. It’s an obsession that has angered world leaders and forced congressional Republicans to insist that the new president has no goal of storming the Arctic.
“The United States is not going to invade any other country,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla. , said on “Meet the Press. ” Trump, Lankford insisted, was simply making “bold” statements aimed at bringing “everyone to the table. ”
Whether the words are a negotiating tactic or something more, the president-elect’s expressed desire to expand the nation’s footprint reflects an urge that has animated much of his career in the public eye: to make whatever he controls as big as possible.
In that sense, Trump’s talk of taking control of Greenland and seizing Canada by “economic force” can be viewed less as an articulation of a foreign policy objective than as an extension of an ethos that goes back to his single-minded efforts to expand his businesses through a series of acquisitions in the 1980s.
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Greenland’s prime minister has said his territory works more closely with the United States on certain issues, but Greenlanders, like Panamanians, have expressed little interest in ceding their territory to Americans.
As a businessman, however, Trump paid little attention to others who stood in the way of his desired expansions, even if they rarely discovered tactics to prevent him.
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