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Trump Threatens To Take Back Panama Canal If 'Rip-Off' Passage Rates Aren't Reduced
Donald Trump issued a troubling warning about the future of the Panama Canal on Saturday, calling the United States’ current arrangement with Panama a “rip-off” in a pair of Truth Social posts.
In his posts, the president-elect threatened to take back the waterway if Panama continues to charge the U.S. “exorbitant prices” to use the passage, which is a critical maritime corridor for both American military operations and global commerce.
“Our Navy and Commerce have been treated in a very unfair and injudicious way,” one Trump post........
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