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Incoming President Donald Trump threatens to change the map

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Nita Blake-Persen
January 8, 2025

US President-elect Donald Trump is ramping up his expansionist rhetoric, claiming he now wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America." It's just his latest comment on foreign territories in recent days, having said he would like the US to take control of Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal.

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