Donald Trump: I'm trying to buy it.

2025, THE YEAR OF TRUMP! (4/5) - For the moment, his ambitions to conquer Canada and Greenland yielded nothing.In Panama, his threat put a damper on Chinese influence.In Venezuela, he openly tried to overthrow the regime.

Donald Trump and the imperial temptation

2025, THE YEAR OF TRUMP!(4/5) - Currently, his ambitions to conquer Canada and Greenland have yielded nothing.In Panama, his threats have weakened China's influence.In Venezuela, he is openly trying to overthrow the regime.

During his campaign, Donald Trump promised “America First.”But after being elected on November 5, 2024, he began dreaming about the future.Vertigo of victory?

The first to notice this development is Justin Trudeau.On November 29, 2024, the man who is still Canada's prime minister arrived urgently at Mar-a-Lago to negotiate with Donald Trump, who is threatening his country with 25% tariffs.But the dinner, which lasted three hours, took a strange turn, according to Bret Baier's story on the Fox News website.Trump said that if the two nations cannot overcome their trade differences, Canada could be annexed and become the "51st state of the United States."Trudeau would be her "governor," and when he heard that, according to witnesses, he reacted with nervous laughter.Then we thought it was a joke.

However, on February 3, Trudeau and Trump spoke on the phone twice.Conversations are tense.The US president drew up a long list of complaints along the lines of "Canada exploits us", according to the New York Times.But he went further than that.He told Trudeau he wanted to question the 1908 treaty that fixed the border between the two countries.Tensions rise: He says he believes Trudeau is not joking about his conversation and wants to weaken his neighbor economically "so they can wipe him out more easily."A tariff war has begun between these two neighbors and friends for generations.

Trump never had Trudeau in his heart.He gets along better with his successor, Mark Carney, a "great guy," whom he describes as "a clear development" for Canada.When he invites him to the Oval Office, he avoids calling him "the governor" as he did his predecessor on social media.The takeover of Canada seems to have been forgotten – at least for now.But the relationship between the two countries is not impossible.

Battle for Greenland

Another goal of Donald Trump: the conquest of Greenland.On December 22, 2024, he announced that the island's "US containment dam" was "an absolute necessity in terms of national security".It's an old fantasy, something he's been talking about "since 2019," said his former adviser (turned veto) John Bolton.It would be Ronald Lauder, the billionaire heir to cosmetics giant Estee Lauder, who sold him the idea.Trump covets Greenland for its wealth in rare mineral resources and for its key geostrategic position between Europe and North America, against Russia and China, which seek to expand their influence in the region.

At the beginning of 2025, he sent his son Don Jr.on the island, which arrived in "Trump Force One", a private jet of one billion.Now, on March 28, it was the turn of his vice president JD Vance, along with his wife Usha, to leave.But the reception of the couple was not good.The visit was cut short, due to fear of demonstrations.57,000) will be declared as "not for sale".An independent territory of the Danish Government for 300 years, Greenland has no desire to be controlled by another foreign power.

Trump doesn't care who turns up the pressure.On August 27, 2025, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark invited American foreign affairs officials to Copenhagen, after broadcasting a report in the local press that revealed the effect of the activities of the ambassadors of the American president on the island, with the aim of defaming Denmark and promoting the United States.At the beginning of December, the annual meeting was held between representatives of Greenland and the United States: discussions on military and scientific cooperation.of victory in Greenland was not discussed open again for a new pressure days ago.

Donald Trump has had more success in Panama, another country in which he has shown a keen interest since 2003. Miss Universe's pageant, which he owned at the time, was held in Panama City.But he cannot spend the fact that Jimmy Carter, President of the United States between 1977 and 1981, signed an agreement giving back control to local authorities on the Panama Canal, previously managed by the United States.He complained about this at the time, according to CNN.

In late 2024, without anyone knowing exactly why, Trump brings up this old obsession.On his platform Truth Social, he declared that the United States is being "knocked down" by the canal, which imposes exorbitant tariffs on American containers. He threatens to take back control if the tariffs are not lowered, a claim he repeated during his inauguration speech on January 20, 2025. Today, Trump can boast that he has scored points against the Chinese, who have gradually taken over the canal.Under American pressure and shortly after Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit in February, Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino announced that his country would withdraw from a global development and infrastructure financing program initiated by China.

Venezuela before Cuba?

The White House's next target: Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, accused of financing narco-terrorism.This time it is not about the control of a country, but about the overthrow of the regime that is officially classified as a "foreign terrorist organization".The American president thus deploys his troops (15,000 troops on the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford) in the region, increases strikes against ships suspected of drug smuggling off the American coast, organizes the blockade of oil tankers and the seizure of oil tankers in Venezuela ("Centuries").A risky strategy that could lead to military escalation and a humanitarian crisis, but if successful, it could also lead to the downfall of another old enemy of the United States: Cuba.

In any case, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, wanted it."Let's hope the end of Mr. Maduro's reign of terror is near so we can focus on Cuba, one of his greatest allies," he wrote on Friday, Dec. 19, on X. That would allow, he continued, to clean up "our backyard," Central America.