Trump’s Panama, Greenland Threats Signal Unchained Second Term

In the space of an hour, President-elect Donald Trump called for absorbing Canada, declined to rule out using military force to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland, demanded NATO allies spend 5% of GDP on defense and vowed “all hell would break loose” in the Middle East if Hamas doesn’t release Israeli hostages before he takes office.

And he promised to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

“What a beautiful name — and it’s appropriate,” Trump told a news conference Tuesday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

He didn’t explain how any of ...