Donald Trump said in his speech in Congress that the US began the process of obtaining control of the Panaman Canal, which Panama clearly denied.
Panama President José Raúl Mulino said on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump “once again lied” when he claimed that the United States had already begun taking control of the Panaman Canal. TASR.
President Trump “once again deceives. The Panaman Canal is not the United State in the process of restitution and this issue has not been addressed in bilateral discussions, “he declared Mulino in the status on the X Network.
Trump at Wednesday night in his speech in Congress said that his administration was “in order to further strengthen our national security again to re -control the Panaman Canal”, adding that “we have already started it”.
Trump’s speech with applause lasted approximately 100 minutes and was the longest presidential speech to Congress MPs since at least 1964.
The old -new president began his speech “America is back” and subsequently devoted himself to several topics – from war in Ukraine, through immigration policy to the price of eggs in the US -, reiterating its promise that the US would put the Panaman Canal under its control.
He added that this canal was built by “Americans and no one else.”
It has also reiterated its statements that, in the interests of national security, Greenland, which is the autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, will also be in control, but since 2009 it has had extensive autonomy, including the right to declare independence.
