Trump sends a 'tough' message to the world
Paul Adams
Diplomatic correspondent
Donald Trump spoke of his desire to be a “peacemaker and unifier,” and followed up with a brief reference to yesterday’s breakthrough in the Middle East.
But to his global audience, this was another tough, challenging address, full of references to American strength and potential, if familiar, threats to those who stand in its way.
Trump called the Panama Canal a “foolish gift” to Panama and repeated his pledge to do something about it.
“We’re taking it back,” he warned.
The Gulf of Mexico, he said, would henceforth be known as the Gulf of America.
There was an almost throwaway line that under his leadership, America would be a country that “expands its borders,” although this was quickly followed by a pledge to plant the American flag on Mars.
A few yards away, Elon Musk greeted that line with a broad grin.
Trump repeated an old threat to treat drug cartels as foreign terrorist organisations.
And of course, the president threw down the gauntlet of tariffs to the global economy.
“We will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” he warned.
How all of this squares with his conviction that “sunlight is pouring over the entire world,” remains to be seen.
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The CAPITAL filled with the bourgeois, the elite, the oligarchs, the 1 % praying to an imaginary being that serves them. Someone should figure out the total net worth of that ballroom!
Hilarious how the Washington Post doesn't even come close to posting what the headline claim and typically cherrypicks by declaring that '[..]and Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post, were among the prominent U.S. tech leaders to attend the ceremony.' Beyond irony, the predatory bunch fighting for survival when the fittest shows up and they need to defend their territories. It's too big a club leaving the fanclub out in the cold as they cheer the supreme state & class, the imperialist superheroes that rob them while they throw marbles at them. Marvelous!
Btw Panama was always owned by the US and drugs trafficking never had anything to do with it and neither did Israël or the contra's.
https://nacla.org/article/legacies-us-invasion-panama
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