Trump is teasing US expansion into Panama, Greenland and Canada | CNN Politics
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President-elect Donald Trump appears to be entertaining an American territorial expansion that, if he’s serious, would rival the Louisiana Purchase or the deal that netted Alaska from Russia.
  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    82·
    11 months ago

    It cracks me up the way he says buy and the us should own it. Lets say it even happened the way we bought alaska. it would make it the 51st state. it would make it part of us and much like alaska it determine how resources are used and likely have its own fund to encourage people to come liver there. but he talks like it would be a possession the way the us owns florida or texas.

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      8·
      11 months ago

      Would not make anything a state. Have you seen Puerto Rico? Guam? American Samoa?

      • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
        31·
        11 months ago

        puerto rico is not a state because every time the opportunity arose they voted not to be one. guam and american samoa im not really sure whats going on.

          • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
            36·
            11 months ago

            oh common. do you think thats a legitamate example. it was carved out of maryland and virginia for the specific purpose of being the capital with no state having authority over it.

            • Nougat@fedia.io
              61·
              11 months ago

              And the people who live there don’t have representation in Congress, but that’s not the point.

              The point is that it’s not a state. Just “being a possession of the United States” doesn’t confer statehood.

              • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
                11·
                11 months ago

                yes but again its not typical it was a very specific thing. The land had belonged to two different states. the guam, puerto rico, us virgin islands are similar but dc is in on way similar.

                • Nougat@fedia.io
                  4·
                  11 months ago

                  Alaska was purchased by the US in 1867. It didn’t get statehood until 1959.

                  Being a possession of the United States of America does not automatically make it a state.

  • athairmor@lemmy.world
    18·
    11 months ago

    I wonder what really bad stuff they are actually up to. This sounds like a blustery distraction.

      • BMTea@lemmy.world
        22·
        11 months ago

        The liquidation of the nation of Palestine (and possibly extermination of its people), ending free speech in universities, counterproductive brinksmanship with China, imposing backwards education on the nation’s children etc.

    • hypna@lemmy.world
      12·
      11 months ago

      The media keeps talking about how they’ve learned their lesson about how to report on Trump; that they’re not going to get spun up about all the noise he makes; that they’re not going to let him switch the story every week; that they’re going to focus on the real, material things that are going on.

      Well here we are again, writing deeply concerned pieces about a handful of tweets (or whatever they’re called in Trump land). And here Lemmy is upvoting them.

      Trump is a troll. Don’t feed the trolls.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      Teasing? Considering? He was pretty straightforward about saying they must be brought under US control.

    • orclev@lemmy.world
      131·
      11 months ago

      Also we all know Trump isn’t going to do shit. He constantly says crazy shit that has no hope of ever becoming a reality all the time. The only thing that should be making headlines at this point are things he’s actually done, not just rambled about one time in a brain fart.