Donald Trump’s News Conference, From Greenland to Wind Farms
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:32.6 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:40.7 | President-elect Donald Trump holds a press conference where he muses about the U.S. potentially acquiring Greenland, the Panama |
| 0:46.4 | Canal, and maybe even Canada, while also saying he wants a policy of no new wind farms being |
| 0:52.3 | constructed in the U.S. |
| 0:57.4 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:02.8 | We're joined today by my colleagues, columnists Bill McGern and Alicia Finley. |
| 1:10.2 | Well, happy days are here again for the White House Press Corps after four years of a distant and aloof President Joe Biden. The next leader of the United States |
| 1:11.9 | very soon will be a man who loves doing press conferences. On Tuesday, Donald Trump was at |
| 1:16.6 | Marlago, answering questions on a range of topics for more than an hour. We could talk for a long |
| 1:22.2 | time about all the hotspots that he hit. He's talking about changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of |
| 1:28.4 | America, for one thing. So throw out your atlases and your globes. But let's talk about two |
| 1:34.0 | subjects in particular that he touched on. One is this idea of a new manifest destiny for the |
| 1:40.0 | mega era. Here is President Trump talking about the Panama Canal. They want $3 billion to fix the |
| 1:45.9 | Panama Canal that's run by China and makes a lot of money, China. One of the most profitable |
| 1:51.4 | structures ever built because you have ships lined up back to Florida, frankly, and they just |
| 1:57.3 | keep going through. And the numbers are staggering half a million to a million |
| 2:01.5 | dollars a ship. And they took it away from us, meaning we gave it to them for a dollar. |
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