This came shortly after he also suggested the US could take over the Panama Canal. President-elect Donald Trump has resurfaced an old position of his, that the US should take over Greenland, just hours after also threatening to take over the Panama Canal. Bob Strong/ReutersTrump's pronouncement came just hours after he threatened to take control of the Panama Canal, the manmade waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday that "the fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous, especially knowing the extraordinary generosity that has been bestowed to Panama by the US." AdvertisementThe US transferred control of the canal to the Panama Canal Authority in 1999, under a treaty signed in 1977 under President Jimmy Carter.

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Persons: Trump, Donald Trump, Ken Howery, Bob Strong, Jimmy Carter Organizations: National Security, NATO, Reuters, Atlantic, Panama Canal Authority Locations: Greenland, Panama, Denmark, United States, America, US, Kulusuk, Russia