businessman sends harsh message to Trump after remarks about Suez Canal – Middle East Monitor

An Egyptian businessman has told a local television channel that Donald Trump clearly hasn’t studied history or geography, after the US president said that American warships and commercial vessels should pass through the Suez Canal without paying any fees as part of America’s “strategic cooperation” with Egypt. According to Trump, neither the Panama nor Suez Canal owe their existence to the US.

“The Suez Canal was built with the sweat and sacrifices of…