In comments to The Floridian, Representative Mike Haridopolos (R-FL) praised President Donald Trump's recent agreement on Greenland, calling the President an "amazing negotiator."
While details about the agreement are currently unknown, Rep. Haridopolos noted that Trump's ambitions for Greenland are sound.
"A year ago, I put out an editorial on the value of Greenland," Rep. Haridopolos said. "It has legitimate, strategic, and commercial needs, and I am so glad the president, the amazing negotiator that he is, was able to work out an agreement so that we have a vested interest there long-term, and we can thwart any efforts, whether it be by China or Russia or other adversarial nations."
Additionally, he emphasized that "the President is one step ahead, and it is the reason why when people said this, that, or the other, I said, 'The President and [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio have done a masterful job in the last year of solving eight major wars, and of course, the amazing work in changing the whole dynamic in Venezuela, and now the work they have done in Iran. We need to give our chief diplomats as much flexibility as possible in these very tenuous times."
In response to why Trump has faced so much opposition, regardless of the validity of his actions, Haridopolos said it's because "it is the 'in' thing to do among the 'in crowd.' They think that they are taking on the President."
"But once again," Haridopolos continued, "the President proved that America is the place that people want to do business, and if you choose to take an adversarial role, we are going to use our economic might to finally get a level playing field."
He pointed out that this was the rationale behind the slew of tariffs Trump has imposed on numerous countries, since "free trade is only achieved when you have fair trade, and for years, we have been paying higher taxes on trade than our trading partners."
On the subject of Cuba, which is in "a precarious situation" after the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro earlier in January, Haridopolos said he was unsure how that will play out.
"Let's give the President and Marco Rubio a wide berth to work with because they have been proven to be right, and all the insiders that they that they know best about diplomacy have been wrong the last four years, let alone for decades on so many of these countries," he expressed. "So let the President do his thing; it is yielding great success for America."
