Trump says US ships should be allowed to travel through the Panama and Suez canals for free

[highplainsdem]

Source: Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that American military and commercial ships should be allowed to travel through the Panama Canal and Suez Canal free of charge.

"I’ve asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio to immediately take care of, and memorialize, this situation," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

The Panama Canal crosses the narrowest part of the isthmus between North and South America, allowing ships to move more quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It carries about 40% of U.S. container traffic each year.

The U.S. completed construction of the canal in the early 20th century but gave control of the strategically important waterway to Panama in 1999.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-american-ships-should-be-allowed-travel-through-panama-suez-canals-2025-04-26/

[walkingman]

1. He belongs in a mental institution.

[Irish_Dem]

3. He would have to be medicated to the max.

To prevent the staff from going crazy and shoving him into a locked room.

[Irish_Dem]

2. The world must bow down and give everything away free to the orange hitler.

[Cheezoholic]

4. Memorialize? Memorialize what? Freeloading? n/t

[johnnyfins]

5. Yep. Fresh off another world stage event

(pope's funeral), where he was AGAIN humiliated, he needs to assert his power. Fuck. It's like we have a 5 year old in the office. Heckuva job GOP!

[Iamscrewed]

6. Ignorant fool

When can we use his carcass to plug the drain to the swamp.

[LakeVermilion]

7. Aren't most registered to foreign countries?

I think they want to avoid United States regulations.

[question everything]

8. But the U.S. had nothing to do with the construction of the Suez Canal

[Turbineguy]

9. Every day is another opportunity

to be an idiot.

[BidenRocks]

10. Now China can come in

and militarily back up the canal's denial of transit to freeloaders, because chump does not understand the meaning of NO!
The law of unintended consequences.

[sakabatou]

11. What a fucking man child.

[red dog 1]

12. Here's a link to the Reuters article without a paywall

https://newsweek.com/donald-trump-panama-suez-canal-free-2064641

[highplainsdem]

13. Reuters isn't paywalled, if you clear your browser cache/history regularly. I think I encountered the

paywall only once, after reading a lot of their stories in one day.

[red dog 1]

14. I'm not sure about that...I may have exceeded the limit for this month.

[highplainsdem]

15. I delete browser history, cookies, etc. at least once a day.

[red dog 1]

16. Thanks

[Eugene]

20. Reuters has a metered paywall with limited free articles per month. Clearing the cache or going incognito

is a trick to work around it. If you go incognito at Reuters from the same IP address too frequently, they will throw a captcha at you as a suspected robot. A simplistic paywall is still a paywall.

[Karasu]

17. THIS is the one fucking thing he thinks should be free? LOL!

[RainCaster]

18. And I insist that all my groceries are free

Fucking dumbass gangster wannabe.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. How much money would this save the government compared to TFG's frequent golf outings?

Which require Secret Service, overnight stays and flights to and from??

[lark]

21. Demented toxic old fool!

Bet he wants the ships to pay a token fee to him every time they pass!!

[NickB79]

22. The US had no role in building the Suez Canal

Pretty sure Trump feels we're owed compensation for our warships defending against Houthi drones and missiles.