It’s a political tactic that has lasted as long as maps have, according to Karl Offen, a geography professor at Syracuse ...

Trump’s comments about the Panama Canal also seem more political to Gray, since they are geared at complaining about China’s growing influence, a key issue to many of Trump’s followers.

From Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Putin, they gaze at a map and want more. Do Trump’s musings about Greenland, Canada and Panama expose him as a leader ...

He began demanding a return of the Panama Canal, which the United States ... Spectacles of domination play an important role in Trump’s political style. “Build the wall” is the classic ...

“So it was a political statement in 1980, and I think Trump's trying to resurrect the feelings that existed when the canal was first returned to Panama.” ...

“I would like to stress that the transaction is purely commercial in nature and wholly unrelated to recent political news reports concerning the Panama Ports,” Sixt said.