Trump made the comments on Greenland and the Panama Canal during a press conference held at Mar-a-Lago, his private Florida club.
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00:00U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he would not rule out the use of military force
00:08to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland.
00:13Pressed on the issue by reporters at a news conference, he said U.S. control of both to
00:18be vital to American national security.
00:21What is the strategy?
00:22I can't assure you.
00:23You're talking about Panama and Greenland.
00:25No, I can't assure you on either of those two.
00:28But I can say this.
00:30We need them for economic security.
00:33The Panama Canal was built for our military.
00:37I'm not going to commit to that now.
00:39It might be that you'll have to do something.
00:43He added that Denmark should give up Greenland voluntarily while also threatening tariffs.
00:50People really don't even know if Denmark has any legal right to it.
00:55But if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security.
00:58That's for the free world.
00:59I'm talking about protecting the free world.
01:01And if Denmark wants to get to a conclusion, but nobody knows if they even have any right
01:07title or interest.
01:08The people are going to probably vote for independence or to come into the United States.
01:13But if they did, if they did do that, then I would tariff Denmark at a very high level.
01:18Trump has also floated having Canada join the United States, but he said he would not
01:23use military force to do that, saying he would rely on economic force.
01:28During the press conference, Trump further talked about renaming the Gulf of Mexico as
01:32the Gulf of America and vowed to reverse Biden's move to ban offshore energy drilling in most
01:38federal waters.