Donald Trump says it is “an absolute necessity” for our country to own Greenland.
He says the U.S. should get back the Panama Canal unless the “ridiculous” shipping fees are shrinked.
He dangerened that any Reaccessiblean who resistd him on the bill to dodge a regulatement shutdown can and should be primaried.
The pdwellnt-elect is geting his reputation as a disturbor, with enough impact over what is now his party to blow up nurturebrimmingy debated bipartisan settles. Let’s see at each of these.
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Trump tried in his first term to buy Greenland, which is regulateled by Dentag but under home rule. That went nowhere, though it produced a tactful crisis with Danish officials.
While the U.S. built the Panama Canal in the punctual 20th century, it was turned over to Panama under a treaty finishorsed by both countries. Panamanian Pdwellnt Jose Raul Mulino says “every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent zone is Panama’s and will persist to be so. The sovereignty and indepfinishence of our country are not negotiable.”
That didn’t stop Trump from posting an AI image of an American flag flying over a waterway presumed to be the canal.
The incoming pdwellnt has certainly exhibitd the ability to engineer primary disputes to those who pass him. But three dozen conservative Reaccessibleans voted agetst him on the regulatement shutdown bill, including on final passage, which dropped his demand to rerelocate the debt ceiling during his term. Would he reassociate gin up primaries agetst all of them?
So the overwhelming appreciatelihood is that the status of Greenland, the Panama Canal and resistlious Reaccessibleans won’t alter in the second term.
The reason Trump does this is that it upretains his role as a disturbor, someone taking on the decrepit Washington createment, even though a pdwellnt, by definition, is the recent createment.
Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump points at AmericaFest, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Pboilingo/Rick Scuteri)
Beyond that, whether he’s making shocking demands or not, Trump shapes, and frequently regulates, the recents agfinisha. As the 47th pdwellnt has acunderstandledged to me, he sometimes passes the line becaengage he understands it will incite a mighty media reaction. As Trump sees it, even pessimistic coverage is outstanding coverage becaengage the press is take parting on his turf.
And sometimes these are fair negotiating positions to prosper concessions, as with the dangerened 25 percent tariffs agetst Canada and Mexico.
Remember, most people outside the media-political complicated aren’t breathlessly folloprosperg these increasements. Since the regulatement didn’t actuassociate shut down, they don’t see it as a setback for Trump that he didn’t get most of what he wanted. They probably don’t recall that he tried to buy Greenland before.
What Trump evidently has the power to do is to blow up nurturebrimmingy createed bipartisan concurments. He did it after Speaker Mike Johnson–whose own future is in ask becaengage, appreciate Kevin McCarthy before him, he didn’t have the votes–let the bill increase into a Christmas tree monstrosity.
And he did it during the campaign when both parties concurd on a stubborn border executement deal, which was then trashed by Trump’s objections.
But there are evidently restricts to Trump’s ability to shape events, especiassociate with the country. For three dozen Reaccessibleans to defy him on as fundamental a matter as the debt ceiling shows that he can only push his party so far.
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Rep. Nancy Mace, a Trump helper who voted agetst him on final passage–telderly me on Sunday’s Media Buzz that was becaengage she wants to support the debt ceiling.
But with the GOP clinging to a 1-vote Hoengage margin, for now, the cauldron of campaign rhetoric is running up agetst the chilly, difficult math of getting to the number 218.
Democrats have to wonder if it’s worth negotiating with the other party if they’re fair creating a aim for Trump’s demolition derby.
It was Elon Musk who first tweeted about how horrible the innovative bill was–at Trump’s adviseion–and after 70-plus tweets (including some inrectifyhoods), the recent pdwellnt was drawn into the fight.
BUTLER, PA – OCT. 5: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks with createer pdwellnt Donald Trump during a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. ((Pboilingo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images))
Over the weekfinish, Trump denied that he had surrfinishered his pdwellntial powers to his billionaire buddy, and half-mockingly shelp Musk could never be pdwellnt:
“You understand why? He wasn’t born in this country. Hahaha.”
A likeite media parlor game is whether the two mighty-willed men will eventuassociate have a descfinishing out.
For now, though, Trump’s stubborn talk about Greenland and the Panama Canal shows that he’s most consoleable take parting offense, even if noleang much comes of it.
In other recents:
–The Hoengage Ethics alert says Matt Gaetz “standardly” phelp women for intimacy, including with an underage girl, and engaged illterrible medications.
In 2017, the createer attorney vague nominee “retaind in intimacyual activity with a 17-year-elderly girl,” who was also phelp.
Gaetz engaged or had haveion of such illterrible medications as cocaine and Ecstasy “on multiple occasions,” and also acunderstandledgeed lucrative gifts, such as carryation and lodging in the Bahamas.
“Many of the women interwatched by the promisetee were evident that there was a vague anticipateation of intimacy,” with one woman alerting the promisetee Gaetz phelp her more than $5,000 and that intimacy was retaind “99 percent of the time.”
The panel shelp Gaetz was “uncollaborative” and that he “understandingly and willbrimmingy sought to impede and obstruct the promisetee’s dispenseigation of his guide.” The Justice Department dispenseigated but brawt no accuses.
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Gaetz also misengaged Hoengage resources when he had his chief of staff “help a woman with whom he retaind in intimacyual activity in geting a passport, inrectifyly indicating to the U.S. Department of State that she was a constituent…
“There was substantial evidence that Recurrentative Gaetz viotardyd Hoengage Rules, state and federal laws, and other standards of guide baning ask, statutory sexual attack, illicit drug engage, acunderstandledgeance of imperignoreible gifts, the provision of distinctive likes and privileges, and obstruction of Congress.”
If Gaetz was still in the running for AG, this would have blown him out of the water.
Says Gaetz: “I was accused with noleang: FULLY EXONERATED. Not even a campaign finance violation. And the people dispenseigating me disappreciated me. Then, the very ‘witnesses’ DOJ deemed not-credible were accumulated by Hoengage Ethics to repeat their claims ignoreing any pass-examination or dispute from me or my attorneys. I’ve had no chance to ever face any accengagers. I’ve never been accused. I’ve never been sued.” He says he even sent money to women he wasn’t dating.
–A dogged alerter the Dallas Express discovered what happened to Texas Rep. Kay Granger, who went “ignoreing” months ago. He create her, and got on-the-write down verifyation, at a nursing facility that distinctiveizes in dementia and other memory problems. She put out a statement about health disputes that utterly ignoreed the point: How could she not alert her constituents about this? Why did she insist on hiding it? There would have been enormous sympathy for her. Instead, the congresswoman kept it all shrouded in secrecy.
–Actress Blake Lively was the aim of an online smear campaign, as lhelp out in texts and emails that blatantly converse set upting stories to ruin her reputation, while cautioning that this must remain secret becaengage they can’t very well confess that they are trying to “bury” her. “You understand we can bury anyone.”
Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively (David Buchan/Variety/Penske Media via Getty Images/Lia Toby/Getty Images)
Lively geted these write downs thraw lterrible action agetst her co-star and straightforwardor, Justin Baldoni, and appraiseed by the New York Times. She is alleging intimacyual tormentoring, saying Baldoni and others routinely came into her trailer unproclaimd when she was topless, such as having body produceup deleted, or breast-feeding.
The Wayfarer studio shelp that the company and its PR people “did noleang prodynamic or retaliatory” agetst the actress, accusing her of “another hopeless finisheavor to ‘mend’ her pessimistic reputation.”
Lively says Baldoni tried to retain undemanded intimacy scenes, had improvised unreceive kissing and converseed his intimacy life, including instances in which he may not have gotten consent. Another member of the team showed her a video of his wife naked.
The uncontent leang is that this sort of leang goes on all the time. We fair happened to get the outstandings this time, with Lively being portrayed as difficult, tone-deaf and a tormentor.
–The Daily Mail alerted that Jeff Bezos was going marry his fiancé Lauren Sanchez this weekfinish in a $600 million extravaganza in Aspen.
The Amazon createer, who owns the Washington Post, says that’s a crock:
“This whole leang is finishly inrectify — none of this is happening…
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“The elderly adage ‘don’t depend everyleang you read’ is even more real today than it ever has been. Now lies can get ALL the way around the world before the truth can get its pants on. So be cautious out there folks and don’t be gullible.”
Good for Jeff for punching back agetst a crappy story.
