Here Are the 5 Craziest Moments from Trump’s Off-the-Wall Presser — From ‘Gulf of America’ to Hezbollah Capitol Rioters

President-elect Donald Trump held a press conference on Tuesday with the ostensible aim of touting foreign investment in the United States in anticipation of his administration. It ended up being so much more than that. Here are the five craziest moments from the wild ride.

POSSIBLE INVASIONS OF PANAMA AND GREENLAND

Asked by a reporter if he could assure world leaders that his rhetoric about the Panama Canal and Greenland would not amount to “military or economic coercion” once he takes office Trump responded with a simple “No.”

“I’m not going to commit to that, no. It might be that you’ll have to do something. Look, the Panama Canal is vital to our country,” he explained. “It’s being operated by China! China! And we gave the Panama Canal to Panama. We didn’t give it to China. And they’ve abused it, they’ve abused that gift.”

“Giving the Panama Canal to Panama was a very big mistake,” continued Trump. “We lost 38,000 people, it cost us the equivalent of $1 trillion, maybe more than that, probably the most expensive, they say it was the most expensive structure, if we call it a structure, which I guess you can, ever built.”

THE GULF OF AMERICA

“We are going be changing —  the opposite of Biden closing everything up and getting rid of 50 to 60 trillion worth of assets — we’ll be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring,” Trump explained during one tangent.

“That covers a lot of territory,” he added. “The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name. It is appropriate. It’s appropriate.”

‘HE WILL EXECUTE EVERYBODY!’

Before taking questions, the president-elect delved into one of his favorite topics: Special Counsel Jack Smith and the criminal cases he’s brought against Trump.

“Nobody’s ever won so many cases as I have against the Justice Department. I mean, Jack Smith had cases all over the place. People were being subpoenaed, lives were being ruined. They were spending everything they had– money. We were helping them out. We had to they were being they were subpoenaing people from that had no idea what they were even talking about. That’s a sick group of people. And it was all to influence the election,” mused Trump.  It was all a fight against a political opponent. We’ve never had that in this country. We have had that in certain countries. We’ve had that in third-tier countries. We’ve had that in banana republics, but we’ve never had that in a place like the United States. I don’t even know if it’s been on a small level. I’m sure it has been on a small level, but this was the largest level ever. They brought this moron out of The Hague. He’s a mean guy. He’s a mean, nasty guy. His picture was perfect because you look at his picture, you say that’s a bad guy with his robe, his purple robe, and he executes people.”

“He shouldn’t be allowed to execute people because he will execute everybody! He’s a nut job. But we won all of those cases with him,” he concluded.

‘DRIP, DRIP, DRIP’

At one point, Trump took a detour to discuss Democratic policy on energy and various household appliances.

“He [President Joe Biden] wants all gas heaters out of your homes and apartments. He wants them to be replaced by essentially electric heaters. I don’t know what it is with electric. This guy loves electric,” said Trump. “We’re going to be ending the electric car mandate quickly, by the way. This guy loves electric and we don’t have enough electricity. And then we have AI where we need more. And he wants to get he wants everybody to have an electric heater instead of a gas heater. Gas heater is much less expensive. The heat is much better. It’s a much better heat. As the expression goes, you don’t itch!”

He continued:

They also want to go back. And they have already started that, too. When you buy a faucet, no water comes out because they want to preserve–. Even in areas that have so much water, you don’t know what to do. It’s called rain, comes down from comes down from heaven.

And they want to do no, no water comes out of the shower. It goes drip, drip, drip. So what happens? You’re in the shower ten times as long, you know, no water comes out of the faucet.

You want to wash your hands, your he–. They want to go back to even stronger than what they have right now. As you know, I ended that policy. I get you can have all the water you want. Makes no difference. Especially in certain areas. We have so much water, we don’t know what to do with it.

But these are all things they want. Very, very little water to go into your dishwasher. Almost none. And you know what people do? They just keep pressing, pressing, pressing. Keep it going. They end up using more water.

Likewise, washing machines they want in your washing machine, you have very little water coming out of the washing machine. So when you wash your clothing, you have to wash it four times instead of once you end up using more water.

HEZBOLLAH CAPITOL RIOTERS

In yet another made-for-TV moment, Trump was asked if he was “you planning to pardon those who were charged with violent offenses” for their role in the January 6 Capitol riot.

Trump responded by the question by saying that “We’re looking at it,” before declaring that “We have to find out about Hezbollah. We have to find out about who exactly was in that whole thing because people that did some bad things were not prosecuted.”

“You know, I see it all the time. And you see it, too. People that were doing some bad things weren’t prosecuted, and people that didn’t even walk into the building are in jail right now,” added Trump. “So we’ll be looking at the whole thing, but I’ll be making major pardons, yes.”