Since Panama is clearly not willing to give back the Canal — which the country has controlled since 1999, spent billions of dollars to improve, and is a source of national pride — pretty much the only way Trump could take control of the waterway would be for the U.S. to invade Panama ( again ).

The president of Panama sought to pour cold water on President-elect Donald Trump’s musings that the United States should take back the Panama Canal due to “ridiculous” and “unfair” passage fees for U.

In an angry rebuke, Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino says “every square meter” of the waterway belongs to Panamanians.