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 Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
01/16/26 04:34 PM
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Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
COPENHAGEN, Denmark —
President Donald Trump suggested Friday that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland, a message that came as a bipartisan Congressional delegation sought to lower tensions in the Danish capital.
Trump for months has insisted that the U.S. should control Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, and said earlier this week that anything less than the Arctic island being in U.S. hands would be “unacceptable.”
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During an unrelated event at the White House about rural health care, he recounted Friday how he had threatened European allies with tariffs on pharmaceuticals.
“I may do that for Greenland too,” Trump said. “I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that,” he said.
He had not previously mentioned using tariffs to try to force the issue….
https://www.wlwt.com/article/trump-tariffs-greenland/70022622
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