Trump Warns We’ll Take Back Control of Panama Canal
America is back. Trump slams unfair fees for US ships passing through the Panama Canal and threatens to demand control of the waterway be returned to Washington. America built it.
Read President Trump’s statement below.
Trump threatens to take back control of Panama Canal
By Breitbart, Dec 21st, 2024
Incoming US president Donald Trump on Saturday slammed what he called unfair fees for US ships passing through the Panama Canal and threatened to demand control of the waterway be returned to Washington.
He also hinted at China’s growing influence around the canal, a worrying trend for American interests as US businesses depend on the channel to move goods between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
“Our Navy and Commerce have been treated in a very unfair and injudicious way. The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous,” he said in a post on his Truth Social platform.
“This complete ‘rip-off’ of our Country will immediately stop.”
The Panama Canal, which was completed by the United States in 1914, was returned to the Central American country under a 1977 deal signed by Democratic president Jimmy Carter.
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