President-elect Donald Trump has lately doubled down on his obsession with annexing new territory into the United States, from his desire to buy Greenland to his ultimatum for Canada to become a U.S. state if it wants to avoid tariffs, to most recently calls to reclaim the Panama Canal Zone and turn the Gulf of Mexico into the "Gulf of America."
But even all of this wasn't enough for longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon. On his latest "War Room" episode on Tuesday speaking to far-right activist Jack Posobiec, he fantasized about Trump seizing the entirety of the North American continent.
"I say this as someone who actually served there, but you know, if these guys down in Central America or other parts of the Caribbean have an issue with the United States using their overseas bases, then why don't you go have a conversation about that with the Castro family?" said Posobiec, who was a key player in spreading the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory. "Because they've been trying to kick us out of Guantanamo Bay since they came to power. But where is the United States' oldest overseas base? ... it's in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."
And the U.S. remains there, he said, because it's in our "geopolitical and geostrategic interest to control the sea lanes in our own backyard. The Gulf of America has to happen."
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Trump is absolutely right about the Panama Canal, he added, because "clearly that is the key choke point here in this region" and "China is going on a buying frenzy" with "debt-trap diplomacy" — and he blasted what he called the same people who pushed for U.S. involvement in the Middle East and Ukraine for not wanting to control this region, when it's of much greater import to us.
"Let's put that map up," agreed Bannon, showing a picture of America controlling the entire continent of North America. "For the hardest-core America First guys, okay? If you want Fortress America, Trump's giving you Fortress America. Look at that right there, all the way up from Panama to Greenland, and he's talking about Canada."
"Can he pull any of this off?" Bannon added. "Hey, it's Donald Trump. Remember how they mocked him about being president? Remember how they mocked him and ridiculed him, when we had his back, this group in January 2021. I think that's a lot harder than what he's talking about now."
Watch the entire episode below or at the link here.