Trump Wants the Gulf of Mexico to Be the Gulf of America (youtube.com)
He talked about the cartel, and how Mexico is ‘very dangerous.’ He said Mexico ‘has to stop allowing millions of people to keep pouring into [the US]. They could stop them.’ ‘The drugs that are coming through are at record numbes. So we’re going to make up for that by putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada.' ‘We do most of the work there, and it’s ours.'
I wonder if he'd really want to incorporate Canada and Mexico though? The more unwilling people you include in your empire, the more dissent you have to deal with, and the more distance. Would Trump want to include Mexico and the Central American countries in an empire? Perhaps if he achieved a lot of new success in America and made it socially a better place, if he built masses of houses and improved civil rights and community, that might appeal enough to other places that they would accept at least entertaining the idea that someone might offer it to them.