Donald's canal fetish (1 Viewer)

[Allan]

Does he think America built the Suez Canal?

 

[anatta]

(April 9) Last month the conglomerate agreed to a $19 billion deal to sell a group of 43 ports, including two in Panama, to U.S.-based BlackRock,

Trump hailed the agreement, seen as a solution to his complaints that the canal was owned by China, but now that deal may fall apart.

China has criticized the deal, opening up antitrust probes, and a Panamanian official has accused CK Hutchison of failing to properly renew its contract in 2021 and owing the country $300 million.

 

[Pyrite]

Does he think America built the Suez Canal?

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Apparently so.

Where did he attend school?

 

[Grand Mal]

Does he think America built the Suez Canal?

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150 years ago, or whatever.
Course, it was like a hundred years or whatever after the American rebellion took the British airfields.
How on earth that dimwit could be elected President is mind-boggling.

 

[ElChupacabra]

Apparently so.

Where did he attend school?

Attending school and learning are not always interrelated. We know he must have slept through science class since at his age he still doesn't know magnets work underwater.

 

[Airyaman]

The Suez Canal is in Egypt.

'Nuff said.

 

[Grand Mal]

The Suez Canal is in Egypt.

'Nuff said.

And construction started in 1859.

 

[Allan]

And construction started in 1859.

By the French.

 

[Grand Mal]

By the French.

But it was America expressing support that actually made it happen.

 

[Loulit01]

But it was America expressing support that actually made it happen.

Source?

 

[ElChupacabra]

Now if Donnie Boy were good at history, one can assume he was referring to the US role back in the 1950s when Egypt wanted to nationalize the Suez Canal, but I doubt he knows that since this is the same person who said the Continental Army took over the British airports during the Revolutionary War. Of course, that interpretation of history would still be generous since the canal had already existed.

 

[Pyrite]

But it was America expressing support that actually made it happen.

Source?

Not really. Sounds to me like a tongue-in-cheek comment re trump's apparent (and mistaken) belief the US participated in the building of the Suez Canal.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5269619-trump-us-ships-should-not-have-to-pay-to-use-panama-suez-canals/

President Trump said Saturday that American commercial and military ships should not have to pay to travel through the Panama Canal and Suez Canal.

“American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel, free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would not exist without the United States of America,” Trump wrote in a Saturday post on Truth Social....

 

[iguanaman]

Does he think America built the Suez Canal?

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LOL So he want the US to pay to maintain them then. Besides the Panamanians built a new wider canal at great expense to handle big container ships. Trump is too dumb to realize that the canal we built is long gone due to over a century of maintenance.

 

[joluoto]

Apparently so.

Where did he attend school?

Murica

 

[Sweden]

Now if Donnie Boy were good at history, one can assume he was referring to the US role back in the 1950s when Egypt wanted to nationalize the Suez Canal, but I doubt he knows that since this is the same person who said the Continental Army took over the British airports during the Revolutionary War. Of course, that interpretation of history would still be generous since the canal had already existed.

The US - Eisenhower, Foster Dulles - Supported the Arab Nationalist, Gammal Nasser, against Britain, France and Israel in 1956.

(As the only DP veteran of the Suez war, I recall that the USA, even then, was not the most loyal of allies).

 

[Grand Mal]

Source?

Sorry, sarcasm.

 

[Grand Mal]

The US - Eisenhower, Foster Dulles - Supported the Arab Nationalist, Gammal Nasser, against Britain, France and Israel in 1956.

(As the only DP veteran of the Suez war, I recall that the USA, even then, was not the most loyal of allies).

The Suez Crisis. Resolving it earned Lester Pearson, who later became Prime Minister of Canada, the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

[Sweden]

The Suez Crisis. Resolving it earned Lester Pearson, who later became Prime Minister of Canada, the Nobel Peace Prize.

Then as now eccentric Norwegian has-been politicians made many dd Peace Prize decisions. Lester Pearson was one of their better choices.