NATO, Trump and Greenland
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President Donald Trump is facing pushback from media personality Piers Morgan and a slate of officials following his comments questioning whether NATO allies would back the United States in a time of need.
President Donald Trump after his speech at Davos said he had reached a deal on Greenland. That includes backing off tariffs. What does TACO mean?
President Donald Trump’s Wednesday speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland was filled with inaccurate claims – notably including false and misleading statements about NATO and Greenland, the self-governing Danish territory he is pushing for the US to acquire.
Trump told an audience in Davos on Wednesday that a possible purchase of the semi-autonomous territory should not be seen as a threat to Nato.
The president's push to gain control of Greenland, a Danish territory, has created anxiety about the future of the alliance throughout Europe.
Donald Trump has claimed that the U.S. has never needed NATO’s help, apparently forgetting how allied nations came to America’s aid after September 11 and died assisting US forces on the frontlines of Afghanistan.
Follow live coverage from NBC News as President Donald Trump launches his Board of Peace at Davos and Denmark, Greenland respond to the framework deal with NATO to cancel tariffs.
The president said the U.S. should have just kept the Danish territory after World War II and that Denmark was being “ungrateful” by not handing it over now.