In a wide-ranging interview at Mar-a-Lago, the President-elect veered from talking about the Panama Canal and Greenland to how ‘windmills are killing whales.’
In one of the stranger moments, when a reporter asked Trump if he could assure that he would not use ‘military or economic coercion’ to take control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, he replied:
‘No, I can’t assure you on either of those two.’
Trump added: ‘Look, the Panama canal is vital to our country. It’s being operated by China. And we gave the Panama canal to Panama.
‘We didn’t give it to China and they’ve abused it. They’ve abused that gift. It should never have been made, by the way!’
‘It (the Panama Canal deal) should have never been made, by the way. Giving the Panama Canal is why Jimmy Carter lost the election, in my opinion.
Trump also floated the idea of changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the ‘Gulf of America.’
‘We are going be changing — the opposite of Biden closing everything up and getting rid of 50 to 60 trillion worth of assets — we’ll be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring.
‘That covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name. It is appropriate. It’s appropriate.’
He also slammed the crackdown on gas heaters by saying electric heaters ‘itch’ and said windmills are killing whales.