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Astrid Lund - Betty MacDonald fan club organizer: "These silly, irresponsible, childish provocations by Donald Trump are just encouraging Russia, China and other power-hungry dictators to take over other countries. How can you appoint such a dangerous arsonist as President of the United States of America?"--------------------------------------------
The West
Trump: New maps of the USA are suddenly circulating - he wants massive expansion of the country
Marcel Görmann • 3 hours • 2 minutes reading time
When the global superpower wants to become much bigger! Are they just silly provocations - or is there more to it? Donald Trump fantasizes about massively expanding the territory of the USA. After Greenland, he now has his sights set on neighboring Canada. His supporters are enthusiastically taking up the thought experiments - there are even maps of the new USA circulating.
65 years ago, Alaska and Hawaii became new states, and since then the USA has consisted of 50 states. Now Trump is suddenly talking about Canada becoming the 51st state.
Trump promises Canadians an economic boom as the 51st US state
In a Christmas message via his Truth Social network, he promises Canadians "more than 60 percent" lower taxes and a real economic boom if the country joins the USA. In addition, Canada would then be "militarily protected like no other country in the world". Trump has already disrespectfully referred to the incumbent Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a "governor". The US president-elect is threatening Trudeau with new horrendous import tariffs on Canadian goods.
But Trump is not only targeting Canada, but also Greenland. He again brought up the proposal to buy Greenland from Denmark. "In the interests of national security and freedom in the world, the USA believes that possession and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity," said Trump via Truth Social.
At the same time, Denmark announced investments in the tens of billions in the defense of Greenland - allegedly a coincidence in timing. Trump is also threatening to bring the Panama Canal back under US control. Panama has had control of the waterway since 1999.
The USA would then be larger than Putin's Russia
Trump fans have already shared maps of the new, expanded USA on social networks. For example, the "End Wokeness" channel, which is followed by over 3.3 million people on X. Canada and Greenland are colored as belonging to the USA. It would be a massive territorial expansion of the United States.
The USA is currently 9,834 square kilometers in size - that's about 27.5 times the size of Germany. Canada would more than double the territory of the USA. The country has a total size of 9,985 square kilometers. The huge island of Greenland also has an area of 2,166 square kilometers.
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In Trump's imagination, the USA could grow to a total of 21,985 square kilometers. This would make it the largest country in the world in terms of area, ahead of Russia. Putin's state currently has an area of around 17.1 square kilometers.