# Trump now wants to use military force to take the Panama Canal and Greenland

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**Created:** [January 7, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-now-wants-to-use-military-force-to-take-the-panama-canal-and-greenland/1012691 "2025-01-07T20:27:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-now-wants-to-use-military-force-to-take-the-panama-canal-and-greenland/1012691/115 "2025-01-09T16:58:04Z")

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Just for reference, let’s take the Wayback Machine all the way back to the halcyon days of 2019:

[https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-try-and-annex-greenland-if-denmark-persist-in-refusing-to-sell/](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-trump-try-and-annex-greenland-if-denmark-persist-in-refusing-to-sell/)

I’m Casey Kasem and this America’s Top 40 Most Ridiculous Ideas of Donald Trump. Number 7 is up next, and you won’t believe the story behind how this got past censors…

Stranger

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