Trump’s Annexation Proposals Should Be Nonstarters

Donald Trump’s proposals to annex Greenland, the Panama Canal, and/or Canada—and now an executive order renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America”—represents another ridiculous betrayal of the “America First” ideology he ran on and further illustrates another example of his difficulty in understanding economics (e.g., his proposed protectionist tariffs). Not only would these moves towards annexation be frowned upon constitutionally, ethically, and economically, but they would only serve to expand a globalist agenda, and destabilize both the US and the world altogether.