Astrid Lund - Betty MacDonald fan club organizer: "Donald Trump thinks the world is a self-service store for him. Canada, the Panama Canal and Greenland. What's next? What were the Americans thinking when they voted for him?"

Astrid Lund - Betty MacDonald fan club organizer: "Donald Trump thinks the world is a self-service store for him. Canada, the Panama Canal and Greenland. What's next? What were the Americans thinking when they voted for him?"------------------------------- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Trump's Christmas message: "Instead I say: go to hell" Sofia Dreisbach • 28 million • 2 minutes reading time Donald Trump's Christmas greetings began with "Merry Christmas to everyone". But that was the end of the contemplative message. The future American president used the post on his "Truth Social" platform on Christmas Day to reinforce his political messages of the past few weeks. The first victim was Panama, which Trump threatened last weekend to take back the Panama Canal because of excessive usage fees and alleged Chinese influence. Merry Christmas "also to the wonderful soldiers of China who lovingly but illegally operate the Panama Canal," wrote the Republican. The United States is investing billions in repair costs in the project, but has "absolutely nothing" to say. In another post, Trump announced that he would appoint local politician Kevin Marino Cabrera from Florida as ambassador to Panama. The country is ripping off the United States in a way that no one could have imagined. Cabrera, however, is a "fighter." Canada as a US state The Christmas message continued with criticism of Canada. Trump claimed that taxes in the neighboring country were far too high and then suggested that Canada would be better off as the "51st state" of the United States. In this context, he again referred to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as "governor." Trump also renewed his desire to buy Greenland for reasons of "national security." The Greenlanders "want the United States there, and we will be there," he wrote in his post. After Trump's first remark last weekend, Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede emphasized that the island under Danish control was "not for sale." In a second part of the Christmas message, Trump, who will be inaugurated on January 20, turned to domestic issues. "Merry Christmas to the left-wing radical lunatics who are constantly trying to influence our court system and our elections," he wrote on "Truth Social." They are after the Americans, "especially their political opponent, MIR." Attack on President Biden Trump then referred to the sentence commutations recently announced by President Joe Biden. 37 of forty people sentenced to the death penalty at the federal level can leave death row; the sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment. Biden was thus reacting to Trump's announcement that he would reinstate the death penalty, which had been suspended during his predecessor's term in office. Trump wrote about his political opponents that the only "chance for survival" for these people was pardons from "a man who has absolutely no idea what he is doing." Biden has pardoned criminals "who have murdered, raped and plundered like no one before them." He does not want to wish them a merry Christmas, "instead I say: go to hell." President Biden, on the other hand, spread a message of unity at his last Christmas in the White House. In a video he said, "too often we see each other as enemies, not as neighbors, not as fellow Americans." But during the Christmas season, people should focus on what we have in common. He hopes that Americans will continue to strive for "kindness, compassion, dignity and decency."