Greenland, NATO and Trump
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The president's push to gain control of Greenland, a Danish territory, has created anxiety about the future of the alliance throughout Europe.
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’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.
By Anthony Deutsch, Andrew Gray, Lili Bayer and John Irish AMSTERDAM/BRUSSELS, Jan 22 (Reuters) - As tensions over Greenland between Donald Trump and Europe neared boiling point this week, NATO boss Mark Rutte cemented his reputation as a "Trump whisperer" after the U.
General Mark Rutte may have been instrumental in persuading U.S. President Donald Trump to scrap his threat of tariffs as he presses for control over Greenland.
NATO chief Mark Rutte says U.S. versus Danish control of Greenland was not discussed in his talks with President Donald Trump, which led to an agreement on new Greenland "framework."
The president rules out using force to take control of Greenland and calls off promised tariffs on European nations.
The idea that Greenland is essential to the United States has returned with a vengeance in the Trump era. A Greenlander with his dog sled looking at the Americans’ Thule Air Base in northern Greenland in 1966.