Donald Trump’s imperialist designs on Greenland, Canada and Panama often sound like the ramblings of a chaos agent who views geopolitics and global trade like a real estate shark chasing new leads.

Donald Trump will move back into the White House in eight days. The President-elect has been busy during his transition picking who he wants to be in his cabinet and working to unite Republicans behind his agenda.

President-elect Donald J. Trump refused on Tuesday to rule out the use of military or economic coercion to force Panama to give up control of the canal that America built more than a century ago and to push Denmark to sell Greenland to the United States.

Yes, the president-elect really is serious about expanding the U.S. But what he mostly wants is to bully small countries that won’t fight back.

President-elect Donald Trump threatened the sovereignty of Panama, Greenland and Canada during a wide-ranging and often rambling press conference on Tuesday.

President-elect Trump refused to rule out military action to pursue his unprecedented vow to take Greenland and the Panama Canal -- plus absorb Canada. Why has he set his sights on expanding beyond the United States' borders?

Múte Egede, Greenland’s prime minister, said his country would pursue closer defense and business ties to U.S.