Trump says he desires to rename Gulf of Mexico and retake Panama Canal throughout press convention: Live
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Donald Trump gave a bizarre, rambling press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday.
Ostensibly arranged to announce new foreign investment in the US, the president-elect refused to rule out using military or economic coercion to take control of the Panama Canal or Greenland; railed against windmills, electric heaters, Canada, dishwashers, and the legal cases against him; and said he would rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
Meanwhile, Trump’s lawyers are attempting to block the “imminent” release of a final report by Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith covering his classified documents and election interference cases against the president-elect.
Aileen Cannon, the judge in his classified documents case has temporarily blocked the release of the final report in that case.
Earlier, Trump pounced on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing his resignation to post on the same platform: “Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State… Together, what a great Nation it would be!!!”
That came after Congress formally recognized his November election win over Kamala Harris and Judge Juan Merchan refused Trump’s latest attempt to delay the sentencing over his hush money conviction, currently scheduled for Friday.
Trump declined to rule out using force to take the Panama Canal or Greenland
Donald Trump just declined to rule out using the military to take Greenland and the Panama Canal.
The president-elect said in response to a question from a reporter during his Mar-a-Lago press conference: “I’m not going to commit to that. It might be that you’ll have to do something.”
Trump takes aim at Biden’s offshore drilling ban and again attacks Panama over canal
President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to reverse President Joe Biden’s executive order that protected more than 625 million acres of the ocean from offshore drilling. “It will be done immediately and we will, ‘Drill, baby, drill.’”
Trump also says the Panama Canal is a “disgrace” and Panama was “supposed to treat us well.”
Trump says Gulf of Mexico to be renamed
In a truly odd press conference, Donald Trump says Mexico is run by cartels and that the Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the Gulf of America.
Trump lashes out at Jack Smith as Jan 6 report release looms
As Donald Trump’s legal team tries to block the release of Special Jack Smith’s imminent report into the charges against him, the president-elect is borderline fuming during his rambling, at times bizarre, remarks, lashing out at Smith and his “purple robe”, claiming he “executes people…”
Watch: Trump claims to have done nothing wrong despite his 34 felony convictions
Watch: Trump claims no one knows how many votes he won by…
Which is odd, because everyone else seems to know.
Court to hear Trump petition to halt hush money sentencing
An appellate court will hear the argument on Donald Trump’s petition to halt his hush money sentencing at 12:30 pm, Anna Bower of Lawfare reports, citing a court officer.
Trump announces new foreign investment into US from longtime business partner
Donald Trump announces new investment into the US economy from DAMAC Properties of the United Arab Emirates.
The president-elect introduces DAMAC’s chairman Hussain Sajwani — a longtime business partner of the Trump family — who says he has been waiting four years to invest in the US. The company will invest $1 billion in an AI data center.
Trump says: “He’s very big into the data centers. And that’s going to be a very hot item in the coming years, as you know.”
The president-elect says there will be a total of $20 billion in investment to open data centers across U.S. in eight states — Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Indiana.
Source: independent.co.uk
