President-elect Trump said on Tuesday that negotiating away the Panama Canal was a "very big mistake" by former President Jimmy Carter – ahead of Carter's state funeral later this week. Trump ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he wants ships to pay less to move through the Panama Canal, and he said he would demand control over the canal if he doesn’t get what he wants.

Trump called Carter a "good man" but said he believed ceding the Panama Canal is why Carter didn't win a second term. The comments came as Carter's remains were being transported from Georgia to ...

Trump expressed disdain for the 1977 deal to hand over the canal long before he entered politics, but his opinion of Panama ...

On Tuesday, Trump criticized former President Jimmy Carter for ceding control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian government even though the U.S. spent vast sums of money and manpower to build ...

With Trump's Panama Canal talk, it feels like 1976 all over again. December 28, 2024 5:00 AM ET. Ron Elving ... Carter had been cool to the idea as a candidate, ...

Trump is wrong: Jimmy Carter didn’t lose due to the Panama Canal. In a Mar-a-Lago press conference, Trump criticized Carter’s ‘mistake’ twice. But the Panama Canal Treaty isn’t the ...

The incoming president criticized former President Carter, who Trump said "foolishly gave it away, for One Dollar." In 1977, Carter signed the Panama Canal Treaty, which phased out U.S. control of ...

HISTORY DEPT. There’s More to Trump’s Bluster Over the Panama Canal Than You Think History shows that, while voters may not care about the canal itself, they may care about what it represents.

It took 11 years, but on the first day of World War I, the canal opened under American control. The U.S. invested over $375 million to build the canal and agreed to pay annual royalties, albeit a ...

But when Trump was quoted in a 2011 CNN story at the time saying the US “stupidly” returned the canal to Panama “in exchange for nothing,” the comments sparked local outrage and led Panama City’s ...

Even then, Trump viewed Carter’s deal to hand over the canal as a mistake, according to two people who worked with the pageant’s operations and had regular interactions with Trump.