It didn't matter at all that it was a Christmas Day celebration; nor did it matter what he once, long ago, declared at a rally in North Carolina, when he was just a presidential hopeful: “I'd like to think that God saved me for a purpose, which is to make our country greater than ever.”
So has Donald Trump, the same one who in 2011, in an interview for the 700Club program, emphasized, “I think mine is a wonderful religion.” And he has complied, because in his electoral campaigns, in his business and in his life he has dealt with Catholics, Protestants, Evangelicals or other religious denominations that can bring him votes from his faithful, or influence his political or financial objectives.
In 2020, while still president, he even described himself as a “non-denominational Christian.” Who knows what he meant by all those definitions.
With that background, Donald Trump, who will be president of the United States in a few days, did not wait to get to the Oval Office of the White House to make threats and arrogant announcements, no matter if he deteriorates diplomatic relations or seeks “enemies” among his followers.
He returned to his manic idea of “buying” the island of Greenland, belonging to Denmark, something he wanted, but could not obtain in his first term, and which he now wants to recycle with the same philosophy that with it “the United States would be a safer, bigger and more wonderful country”.
If it buys Greenland, it could be the country's largest territorial acquisition in history, the New York Post argued.
The island, controlled by Denmark for nearly 300 years, has an area of 2.1 million square kilometers, slightly larger than Louisiana, purchased from France in 1803, which was nearly twice the size of the U.S. territory at the time.
The possible acquisition of the region would more than double the size of Texas, annexed in 1845. Greenland is also much larger in area than Alaska, which was purchased in 1867.
Russia Today reports quoted Trump referring to his plans to take control of the Island. He had stated “that, for goals in national security and freedom around the world, Washington considers possession and control of Greenland an absolute necessity.”
Such statements were rejected by the island authorities, who responded sharply: “We are not for sale and never will be”.
BACK TO COLONIZATION?
The other “little gift” that the tycoon intends to give himself in his second term is to take over the Panama Canal once again.
Exactly on Christmas Day, he accused the Isthmian nation of “swindling the United States”, and described as “wild dreams” the national interests that Panamanians defend with the exploitation of the inter-oceanic waterway, one of the country's major economic livelihoods.
Trump wielded these ridiculous arguments when announcing the appointment of Kevin Marino Cabrera as Yankee ambassador to the Central American nation.
Faced with such an outrage, the president of the Isthmian nation, José Raúl Mulino, responded: “I want to express precisely that every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent area is Panama's, and will remain so”; to which Donald Trump replied: “We'll see”, while posting a photo of the U.S. flag waving over the water with the inscription: “Welcome to the United States Canal”.
There is no shortage of comments. In the crazy world in which we live, few things surprise us; anything can be read, heard and also believed. The years go by without a large part of humanity coming to understand the whys and wherefores of many of the absurdities we see.
It is not complicated, for example, to try to understand how, with the disastrous experience of his transit through the White House and his chaotic exit from power in his first term, Donald Trump, who has been the most voted presidential aspirant in the last decades in the United States, is once again the most voted, above any prognosis.
The truth is that, still far from January 20, when he will be officially sworn in as president, there are already almost a dozen incomprehensible and absurd declarations. The Republican multimillionaire speaks and acts as if he is always trying to earn more money.
And, of course, he drags company into his outbursts. RT reported how the son, Eric Trump, published on Tuesday a photo of his father adding Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal to his Amazon shopping cart
As unbelievable as it may seem, these are troubling examples that typify the thinking and actions of the man who will take the reins of the United States next month.
