President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal on Tuesday in a rambling media appearance during which he also complained about electric heaters that cause itching, suggested that the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah was involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, and continued his lying about the criminal cases against him.

“No, I can’t assure you on either of those two,” he said in response to a question about use of the military in the two territories, one controlled by Denmark and the other by Panama. “It might be that you’ll have to do something.”

“We need Greenland for national security purposes,” he said, adding that it has only 45,000 residents. “People really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it. But if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security.”

Regarding the canal, Trump claimed that China had taken control and that the United States was being treated unfairly. “We gave the Panama to Panama. We didn’t give it to China, and they’ve abused it. They’ve abused that gift,” he said.

Trump will take office in 13 days after American voters returned him to the presidency, despite the coup he attempted on Jan. 6, 2021, to remain in power after losing his reelection bid in 2020.

His attempts to overturn that election loss resulted in felony criminal charges against him by the Department of Justice — which Trump on Tuesday falsely claimed he had beaten in court.

“I defeated deranged Jack Smith. He’s a deranged individual, I guess he’s on his way back to the Hague. And we won those cases,” Trump said in one of several statements disparaging special counsel Jack Smith and his prosecutions against him.

In fact, both federal cases against Trump — the Jan. 6 one as well as the one charging him for retaining secret documents at his South Florida country club despite a subpoena demanding their return — were dismissed after Trump won back the White House because of longstanding DOJ policy not to prosecute a sitting president.

Trump’s 70-minute-long appearance at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach was typical of his exchanges with reporters, in which he mixes extended grievances, false boasts and promises of actions that he often does not take.

Trump, for example, claimed yet again that he oversaw the best economy in U.S. history during his first term, which is not true. He complained that President Joe Biden, through his decision to ban oil drilling in coastal waters, would cost the country $50 to $60 trillion dollars — a figure that appears to be entirely made up.

He attacked Smith at length, falsely claiming, as he has many times in recent years, that the prosecutions were unfounded. Trump’s coup attempt took place on live television, and he has admitted that he took the secret documents with him, although he claims he had an ownership right to them — even though U.S. law says he does not.

He repeated provably false conspiracy theories, such as the claim that the FBI instigated the attack on the Capitol four years ago or that insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed as she climbed through a broken window into a room from which members of Congress were being evacuated, was actually trying to “hold back the crowd.”

On Tuesday, he even intimated — with zero evidence — a role by Hezbollah that day at the Capitol: “We have to find out about Hezbollah. We have to find out who, exactly, was in that whole thing.”

And he veered off at times into trivial matters, such as complaining about regulations meant to conserve water and energy.

“It’s called rain. It comes down from heaven. And they want to do, no water comes out of the shower. It goes drip, drip, drip,” he said. “Does anyone have a heater where you go scratching? That’s what they want you to have.”