By <a class="c-link lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-color-brand-primary-dark:hover lrv-u-text-decoration-underline:hover lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/author/rotimi-adeoye/" > Rotimi Adeoye</a> <br> President-elect <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/donald-trump/" id="auto-tag_donald-trump" data-tag="donald-trump" >Donald Trump</a> has always used his public press conferences and social media posts to seize attention and dictate the terms of national discourse. But his recent <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-america-military-seize-greenland-panama-1235227860/" >trolling</a> about taking over <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/canada/" id="auto-tag_canada" data-tag="canada" >Canada</a>, acquiring <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/greenland/" id="auto-tag_greenland" data-tag="greenland" >Greenland</a>, and reclaiming the <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/panama/" id="auto-tag_panama" data-tag="panama" >Panama</a> Canal reveals something more complex than rhetoric. <br> These statements, far from harmless social media clickbait, show Trump’s vision for America: a return to the outdated ambitions of domination from the Bush era. For a man who once styled himself as the “<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-promises-to-bring-lasting-peace-to-a-tumultuous-middle-east-but-fixing-it-wont-be-easy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" >pro-peace</a>” candidate, these nation expansion fantasies mark a disturbing pivot toward policies that could destabilize the global order.<br> Now that Trump is president-elect, he has quickly shifted away from the isolationist “<a href="https://time.com/4309786/read-donald-trumps-america-first-foreign-policy-speech/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" >America First</a>” narrative he promoted during his 2016, 2020, and 2024 campaigns. He painted himself as the voice of the forgotten America who would prioritize domestic concerns over costly foreign entanglements. Trump promised to bring jobs back to the abandoned steel mills of Pennsylvania and Ohio, which had been left to rot by elites from both political parties. <div class="admz" id="adm-inline-article-ad-1"> <div class="adma boomerang" data-device="Desktop" data-width="300"> <div style="min-width:50px;min-height:75px;" class="pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text" data-priority="10" > <div id="gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody-uid0" class="adw-300 adh-250" data-is-adhesion-ad=""> <script type="application/javascript">
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