Denmark, Greenland and Donald Trump
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A satirical petition urges Denmark to "buy" California, poking fun at Trump’s Greenland plans amid U.S.-Europe tensions and tariff threats.
U.S. senators are in Denmark this weekend to meet with officials, as President Trump announces tariffs against NATO members to pressure them over his designs on Greenland.
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Denmark officials react to tariff threat: We will not ‘bow down’ to Trump’s ‘bullying tactics’
Denmark leaders are refusing to “back down” to the Trump administration after President Trump announced plans Saturday to impose new tariffs on the country and seven of its allies next
Denmark's foreign minister said the closed-door meeting was a "frank but also constructive" discussion. He said a high-level working group would be formed "to explore if we can find a common way forward.
WASHINGTON/NUUK, Jan 14 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump reiterated on Wednesday that the U.S. needs Greenland and that Denmark cannot be relied upon to protect the island, even as he said that "something will work out" with respect to the future governance of the Danish overseas territory.
Yesterday, after Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, vowed to cast his lot with Denmark over the United States, Trump said that he didn’t “know anything about” Nielsen but that such a choice would be a “big problem for him.”
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday that calm discussion between allies was needed on Greenland to ensure that historic alliances could endure, after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened allies with tariffs to secure the territory.
The 2016 footage is cast new light after Trump’s threats to take the Danish territory of Greenland “whether they like it or not”