U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his plans for Panama and Greenland in his comments to Congress on Tuesday, prompting swift pushback from the leaders of those countries.

A viral meme combines Hollywood’s The Godfather with global politics, humorously depicting China as Don Corleone commenting on US President Trump's controversial statements about American territorial expansion.

On the Panama Canal, Mr. Trump said ... Greenland is located to the northeast of Canada and is largely covered by the Greenland Ice Sheet. The largest island in the world, but home to only ...

One way or the other, we’re going to get it,” President Donald Trump said of Greenland, asserting that the autonomous Danish territory and the Panama Canal were vital to security.

But on Tuesday evening during a joint address to Congress, Trump said his administration was taking steps to reclaim the Panama Canal, and he resumed his push for the U.S. to acquire Greenland. “We’re taking it back,” Trump said of the Panama Canal.

Greenland! Canada! The Panama Canal! These and other regions of the globe offer Donald Trump’s America so many “opportunities.” And if we can’t occupy an area like the Gulf of Mexico, the least we can do is rebrand it the Gulf of America!

Trump and his team are right to recognize Panama’s strategic importance, but they are wrong in how they are approaching the issue. During his inaugural address in January, President Trump proclaimed that “China is operating the Panama Canal” and promised that the United States would be “taking it back.

U.S. President Donald Trump has hailed a deal led by U.S. firm BlackRock to buy most of the $22.8 billion ports business of Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison , including assets it holds along the Panama Canal.

The $23 billion deal, announced by Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings, transfers control of the Balboa and Cristobal ports to a consortium led by BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, and Terminal Investment Limited.

A cargo ship sails through the Panama Canal, in Panama City, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File) U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, third from right, tours the Miraflores Locks at the Panama Canal in Panama City,

The agreement will give a BlackRock consortium a majority stake in two terminal ports. Trump has said he wants the trade route under US control.