Bernie Sanders had some words for President Donald Trump and his plans with Greenland. After continued rhetoric from 47th president on buying or taking Greenland from Denmark's ownership, Sanders said on X,

Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others are just idiotic.

The president has repeatedly discussed his desire to "retake" the Panama Canal and take possession of Greenland.

Nancy Soderberg, a former United Nations ambassador and the director of the Public Service Leadership Program at UNF, joins Bruce Hamilton on Politics & Power this week to see if President Donald Trump is trying to gain the upper hand with China or even truly has an expansionist agenda.

President McKinley … gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to the country of Panama,”

With their loose talk about Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal, Trump and his followers show they don’t get what we get from those relationships.

I'm sure that Denmark will come along,” Trump told reporters after ... Trump has also been vocal about his intentions to take control of the Panama Canal. Also read | ‘China is operating…,’ Trump vows to ‘take back’ Panama Canal; Panamanian ...

The president’s confrontational foreign policy has created opportunity for his allies on K Street who are willing to take on clients he has targeted.

There were no Situation Room meetings and no quiet calls to de-escalate a dispute with an ally. Just threats, counterthreats, surrender and an indication of the president’s approach to Greenland and Panama.

US President Trump had recently said that he would not rule out the possibility of using military force to gain control of the Panama Canal and Greenland (currently owned by Denmark).

It is now a weapon being used against us.” Trump’s skepticism about U.S. support for Ukraine and Taiwan, his eagerness to impose tariffs, and his threats to retake the Panama Canal, absorb Canada, and acquire Greenland make it clear that he envisions a return to nineteenth-century power politics and spheres of interest,