‘It would be like Hawaii’: Republicans open to Trump’s Canada and Greenland proposal

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy President-elect Donald Trump kicked off his first press conference of 2025 by suggesting that he would use “economic force” to coerce Canada to enter the United States. When told about the remarks, Brian Schatz, the Democratic senator from Hawaii, looked blankly before telling The Independent, “That’s one of the most ignorant things I have ever heard.” Tuberville, a former head coach at Auburn University who won his race largely thanks to Trump’s endorsement, supporting the president’s policies should not be surprising. Hagerty said Trump’s concerns about the Chinese Communist Party controlling the canal are valid, while the country’s president has brushed it off as “nonsense.” But other Republican senators also told The Independent they would look into the policy. “Denmark, of course, would need to be included in those discussions, but there's so many exciting opportunities in the world that it is, I think it would be a mistake to dismiss these things as frivolous, because these are transformative ties, and it's difficult to know what form this transformation is going to take.” Sen Todd Young of Indiana, who has always had a contentious relationship with Trump, gave more pause.