Jose Raul Molina
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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The president of Panama is striking back hard against Donald Trump after Donald Trump stated at his inauguration speech that he wants to, quote, take back Panama, essentially saying that he wants to use United States military force to conquer the sovereign nation of Panama. So Panama's president, Jose Raul Molina, said the following.
On behalf of the Republic of Panama and its people, I must reject in its entirety the words expressed by President Donald Trump regarding Panama and its canal and his inaugural address. I reiterate what I expressed in my message to the nation on December 22nd. The canal is and will continue to be Panama's and its administration will continue to be under Panama's.
Panamanian control with respect to its permanent neutrality. There is no presence of any nation in the world that interferes with our administration. The canal was not a concession from anyone. It was the result of generational struggles that culminated in 1999 as a result of the Torrijos-Carter Treaty.
And since then, until now, for 25 years, without interruption, we have managed and expanded it responsibly to serve the world and its commerce, including the United States.
We will exercise the right that protects us, the legal basis of the treaty, the dignity that distinguishes us and the strength that international law gives us as the ideal way to manage relations between countries and above all, between allied and friendly countries as demonstrated by history and our actions with respect to the United States.
Dialogue is always the way to clarify the points mentioned without undermining our right, total sovereignty, and ownership of our canal. Jose Raul Molina, President of the Republic of Panama. And while Fox...
And other Trump propaganda networks are out there looking like those Russia state TV networks like Jesse Watters saying, Donald Trump said during his inauguration speech he wants to take back Panama. It's the most excited I've ever been in my entire life. That's from Jesse Watters, who reminds me of that Hunger Games reporter. The people of Panama are pissed.
Just in the past 24 hours, mass protests at the United States Embassy and throughout Panama City have broken out protesting the United States of America, with people from Panama spitting on the United States flag, burning the flag, and saying that the United States of America needs to stay the hell out of Panama.
The people of Panama are pissed as Donald Trump is destroying America's relationship there, destroying our relationship with Mexico, destroying America's relationship with Central America, with South America, with Europe, with our allies. But Donald Trump did say that he really likes Kim Jong-un on his inauguration.
Donald Trump said that he's talking to Kim Jong-un about building condos in North Korea. How utterly pathetic is that? Here are protesters in Panama in the past 24 hours burning the US flag and vowing to defend against any Trump led invasion. Play this clip. By the way, here is some union members, part of this protest, saying neither Trump nor others nor their army have anything to do in Panama.
You'll see right here more very, very, very serious images of what the people of Panama are doing in response to Donald Trump's ridiculously offensive speech. Here, play this clip.
Folks, just a little bit of history, too, on Panama. A few things. First and foremost, Donald Trump, his big complaint is that Donald Trump lies and says China owns the canal now and China's running the canal. That's not true. China is very influential in Panama, though. They have historical ties together. But setting that aside,
diplomatic relationships between Beijing and Panama were established during the first Trump administration, during a very weak international policy from Donald Trump then. So Trump's whole complaint that China built this official foothold, Panama was recognizing or recognized Taiwan up until 2017. And then it broke off relations with Taiwan in favor of Beijing
during right around June of 2017 when Trump was in office. Then in December of 2018, Xi Jinping took a visit to Panama, an official state visit, again, while Trump was in office. And then billions of dollars were invested, was invested in Panama by China. Building relations, China saying that they respect Panama's sovereignty.
And as part of the Silk Road 2, the Silk Road 2 by China, they are extending investments in South American countries, Central American countries. and throughout the world as a form of diplomacy. It should be noted, just a quick fact check on the things that Donald Trump says, the US did not lose 38,000 people building the Panama Canal. China does not control the canal.
US is not ripped off by the canal tolls. Panama is not violating any treaty. As Shibley Talami says, it took only a few days after Trump's remark for this joke to start circulating among China specialists. Question, what does Xi Jinping feel when Trump starts talking about conquering Panama and Greenland? Answer? hungry for Taiwan.
When Trump uses this rhetoric, it legitimizes Xi Jinping's desire to take over Taiwan. It legitimizes, shouldn't legitimize, but it makes Vladimir Putin's statements about taking over Ukraine and the sovereignty of other nations go, well, Trump's talking about doing it with Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Panama, all of these countries. So we're just doing what Donald Trump's doing.
It's why it creates this great instability in the world. By the way, Donald Trump's first day, 24 hours passed while he praises Kim Jong-un, while he threatens to conquer Panama. No peace in Ukraine. I mean, wasn't the whole thing that these MAGA's trying to say is, oh, Donald Trump, he's going to stop World War III. no, he's not. He's going to be the bad guy in World War III.
He's going to start it. What are you talking about? And Donald Trump was not talking about peace. He was talking about conquering Panama, a sovereign nation in his inauguration speech.
Now, no talk about health care, no talk about unions, no talk about workers, no talk about lowering prices, no talk about inflation other than Donald Trump saying yesterday that he didn't think inflation is really a big issue. Trump says the biggest issue is people from mental institutions coming in, which I don't know what he's talking about. He says, but man, inflation's not really a big deal.
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