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Greenland, Panama fiercely reject Trump’s ambitions in address to Congress
Leaders from both Greenland and Panama issued messages Wednesday fervently rejecting the comments made by President Donald Trump during his address to Congress in which he again reiterated his ambitions to grab hold of the strategically important areas.
Trump has made clear he intends to «acquire» both Greenland and the Panama Canal, and previously refused to rule out military intervention to achieve his expansionist goals.
In his joint address to Congress, the president said his administration had already taken steps to «take back» the Panama Canal and reiterated his push to acquire Greenland, which is currently a territory of Denmark.
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President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, DC (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
TRUMP LOOKS EAST
Trump spoke directly to Greenland in his address Tuesday night and said, «We strongly support your right to determine your own future, and if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America.»
«We will keep you safe. We will make you rich. And together we will take Greenland to heights like you have never thought possible before,» he added.
Trump then said his administration was «working with everybody involved to try to get it.»
«We need it really for international world security. And I think we’re going to get it,» he continued. «One way or the other, we’re going to get it.»
GREENLAND’S RESPONSE
Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede on Wednesday made clear he is neither interested in American or Danish ownership.
«We do not want to be Americans, nor Danes, we are Kalaallit (Greenlanders). The Americans and their leader must understand that,» Egede said in a post on Facebook translated by Reuters.
«We are not for sale and cannot be taken. Our future is determined by us in Greenland,» he added.
Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede (left) and President-elect Donald Trump (right). (Getty Images | Fox News Digital)
TRUMP LOOKS SOUTH
Trump’s comments regarding the Panama Canal Tuesday night were just as direct when he said, «My administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal.»
«We’ve already started doing it,» he added.
Trump has claimed China has taken over the important waterway as a Hong Kong-based company operates ports on either end of the canal — which the administration has claimed could cut off the U.S. from the canal if Beijing directed it to.
However, Panama has repeatedly rejected the claim that China runs the canal.
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The Marshall Islands cargo ship Cape Hellas (L) and the Portuguese cargo ship MSC Elma sail on Gatun Lake near the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal in Colon City, Panama, on Dec. 28, 2024. (ARNULFO FRANCO/AFP via Getty Images)
«Just today, a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots of other things having to do with the Panama Canal and a couple of other canals,» Trump said.
Trump’s comments were in reference to a $23 billion BlackRock Inc.- TiL Consortium deal made with Hutchison Port Holdings, the Hong Kong conglomerate, announced on Tuesday.
The consortium, made up of BlackRock Inc., Global Infrastructure Partners and Terminal Investment Limited, would acquire «90% interests in Panama Ports Company (the «PPC Transaction»), which owns and operates the ports of Balboa and Cristobal in Panama,» according to a Tuesday press release.
PANAMA’S RESPONSE
But Panama’s president took issue with Trump’s comments saying in part, «Once again, President Trump, is lying.»
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, waves after being welcomed by Panama’s Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha, left, upon his arrival at the presidential palace in Panama City, on Sunday, Feb. 2. Panama is Rubio’s first trip abroad as Secretary of State. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
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«The Panama Canal is not in the process of being restored, and this is certainly not the task that was even discussed in our conversations with [Secretary of State] Rubio or anyone else,» Panama President José Raúl Mulino said in a post on X. «I reject, on behalf of Panama and all Panamanians, this new affront to the truth and to our dignity as a nation.
«It has nothing to do with the ‘recovery of the Canal’ or with tarnishing our national sovereignty,» he added. «The Canal is Panamanian and will continue to be Panamanian!»
Estados Unidos pausó el intercambio de Inteligencia con Ucrania, anunció el asesor de seguridad nacional de la Casa Blanca, Mike Waltz.
«Hemos dado un paso atrás y estamos haciendo una pausa y revisando todos los aspectos de esta relación», afirma.
La medida se produce después de una ruptura diplomática tras la intensa reunión del viernes en la Oficina Oval entre el presidente de Estados Unidos y su homólogo ucraniano, Volodimir Zelenski.
Donald Trump ya había emitido una pausa en la ayuda militar a Ucrania, aunque Waltz ha sugerido que estaría dispuesto a levantar esa congelación si las conversaciones de paz avanzan.
«Ucrania está dispuesta a sentarse a la mesa de negociaciones lo antes posible para acercar una paz duradera», rezaba la carta que leyó Trump. «Nadie quiere la paz más que los ucranianos», agregaba.
El director de la CIA, John Ratcliffe, también anunció la pausa en el intercambio de Inteligencia.
«El presidente Trump tenía dudas reales sobre si el presidente Zelenski estaba comprometido con el proceso de paz», dijo Ratcliffe a Fox News.
El director de la CIA dijo que la pausa «en el frente militar y en el frente de inteligencia» es temporal, y que Estados Unidos volverá a «trabajar hombro con hombro con Ucrania».
Trump dijo el martes que Zelenski le aseguró que estaba listo para negociar el fin de la guerra con Rusia y para firmar un acuerdo para la explotación de minerales por parte de Estados Unidos en Ucrania.
El presidente ucraniano ha publicado en sus redes sociales que el episodio de la semana pasada con Trump en la Casa Blanca fue «lamentable» y que su intención es «arreglar las cosas» con el republicano, en un intento de reconducir la relación entre ambos.
Pope Francis has reportedly increased his physical therapy, despite his outlook remaining «guarded,» according to the Vatican. He underwent high-flow oxygen therapy during the day and non-invasive ventilation at night during his third week at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital.
The Vatican added that the 88-year-old pontiff’s situation remains complex, even though he is stable.
Balloons featuring Pope Francis are attached to a statue of John Paul II outside the Gemelli hospital in Rome on Feb. 23, 2025. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Normally, Pope Francis would lead an Ash Wednesday mass at the Vatican to start Lent, but was unable to do so this year. This morning, he participated in the rite of the blessing of the Holy Ashes, and received the Eucharist. Cardinal Angelo De Donatis read the pope’s homily aloud at Rome’s Santa Sabrina Basilica, according to the Vatican.
Pope Francis waves from his popemobile after the weekly Angelus prayers at the Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Oct. 20, 2024. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty)
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Before reading the pope’s homily, De Donatis thanked the pontiff for «the offering of his prayer.» In his homily, the pope spoke of the significance of the ashes and the act of receiving them.
«We bow our heads in order to receive the ashes as if to look at ourselves and to look within ourselves. Indeed, the ashes help to remind us that our lives are fragile and insignificant: we are dust, from dust we were created, and to dust we shall return,» the homily read, according to the Vatican.
The pope also called for a «return to God with all of our hearts» in his homily, urging Catholics to «place Him at the center of our lives.»
Candles with the pictures of Pope Francis are the laid under the statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome on Wednesday, Feb. 19, where the pontiff has been hospitalized since Friday, Feb. 14. (AP/Gregorio Borgia)
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While in the hospital, Pope Francis spoke with Father Gabriel Romanelli, the parish priest of the Holy Family Parish in Gaza. This comes just days after he mentioned the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in his first written message since his hospitalization. He urged prayers «for [those] martyred Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sudan, and Kivu.»
Fox News’ Anne Butterworth contributed to this report.
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