Denmark, Greenland and Donald Trump
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A bipartisan U.S. Congressional delegation's comments in Denmark contrasted with those emanating from the White House.
"All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland, where we already had it as a trustee, but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago," Trump said.
During his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, January 23, Trump claimed that the US once owned Greenland and later gave it to Denmark. Trump said the US was ‘stupid’ to return Greenland to Denmark. “We gave back Greenland to Denmark after World War II. How stupid were we to do that, we did that,” he added.
President Donald Trump has announced the United States would impose 10% tariffs on multiple European countries unless Denmark agrees to a purchase.
When Trump and Miller ask by what right Denmark controls Greenland, the answer is straightforward
Denmark will not give up Greenland to the US, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said during an official visit to the Arctic Island. Responding to repeated threats from Donald Trump, Frederiksen offered closer collaboration on security but told ...
The comments come ahead of Wednesday's meeting between the foreign ministers of Greenland and Denmark, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The White House and Denmark contradicted each other in public about what they had agreed to this week as President Trump continued to demand U.S. ownership of Greenland.
Greenland’s prime minister said he was trying to end a "geopolitical crisis" by declaring Greenland wants to be part of Denmark, not the U.S.
Investors are getting accustomed to a familiar pattern known on Wall Street as ‘TACO’ — the assumption that the president eventually reverses policies that threaten to sink the market