PANAMA CITY (AP) — Teddy Roosevelt once declared the Panama Canal “one of the feats to which the people of this republic will look back with the highest pride.” More than a century later, Donald Trump is threatening to take back the waterway for the same republic.

In a pair of Truth Social posts on Saturday night, Trump used his pending bully pulpit to claim that Panama was charging “exorbitant” and “ridiculous” fees for the U.S.

The president-elect on Sunday intimated that he wanted to retake control of the waterway from the Central American nation.