Goodbye EU, hello AU? It’s been evident for a few months now that Donald Trump’s second administration will be more geostrategically ambitious than his first. Yesterday, in another extraordinary press conference in Mar-a-Lago, we got a glimpse of what Trump and his advisers are thinking for the planet in 2025 and beyond.
Trump reiterated his desire to annex Canada and Greenland. He declared that the Gulf of Mexico should be called the Gulf of America, said the United States should take back control of the Panama Canal, and told Hamas ‘all hell will break loose’ if its Israeli hostages are not returned before his inauguration.
Earlier, as if to underscore the Greenland point, Donald Trump Jr flew on Trump Force One with some of his buddies to Nuuk to spread the Make America Great Again message to the frozen north. Like lads on stag do, the adventurous boys even wore ‘Trump Force One’ bomber jackets, as Jr told Greenland’s residents ‘we’re going to treat you well.’
Where does Britain fit into Trump’s new world order? It’s clear that Elon Musk, in his semi-official role as First Buddy to the most powerful politician in the world, is conducting his own somewhat quixotic campaign on X to absorb the United Kingdom more fully into America’s orbit.
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