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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Claiming Carter “foolishly” gave away the passage between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, Trump then demanded control of the canal be returned to the U.S.

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.

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

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.

As Quijano weighed Trump’s recent comments, he sat on a hotel balcony overlooking Panama Bay. Massive cargo ships were visible in the distance, waiting for their respective schedule times to ...