{"id":422667,"date":"2026-01-21T02:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422667\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T02:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:25:12","slug":"trump-says-youll-find-out-when-asked-about-his-ambitions-to-annex-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/422667\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says \u2018you\u2019ll find out\u2019 when asked about his ambitions to annex Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions from the media during a press briefing at the White House on Tuesday.Win McNamee\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> vowed the world will \u201cfind out\u201d what he\u2019s willing to do to annex Greenland as he departed for a World Economic Forum dominated by fears that his imperialist ambitions will destroy the NATO defence alliance.<\/p>\n

In a string of overnight Truth Social posts on Tuesday, Mr. Trump said \u201cthere can be no going back\u201d on his demand to take over the Arctic island \u2013 despite its inhabitants rejecting his overtures \u2013 and suggested he also wants to seize Canada and Venezuela.<\/p>\n

The President is scheduled to speak in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, where other world leaders will try to dissuade him from acting on his threats against Greenland and imposing additional tariffs on European countries that oppose his plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll find out,\u201d Mr. Trump said at a rambling White House news conference Tuesday afternoon, when asked how far he is willing to go to acquire Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think something\u2019s going to happen that\u2019s going to be very good for everybody,\u201d he said later, without elaborating. While the President boasted that he \u201cdid more for NATO than anybody else, alive or dead,\u201d he did not commit to the defence pact that has underpinned the Western alliance\u2019s collective security since 1949.<\/p>\n

Robyn Urback: On our sovereignty, Canada must assume Trump will pursue the riskiest, dumbest path possible<\/a><\/p>\n

A military invasion of Greenland, which Mr. Trump has repeatedly refused to rule out, would constitute a once-unthinkable attack by one member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on another, and certainly spell the end of the pact at a time when China and Russia are giving rein to their own expansionism.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump threatened last week to impose additional 10-per-cent tariffs on France, Britain, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands starting Feb. 1 until the U.S. takes Greenland. The tariffs will rise to 25 per cent on June 1, he threatened.<\/p>\n

In an earlier Truth Social post on Tuesday, the President said he and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte had agreed to a meeting on Greenland in Davos. \u201cAs I expressed to everyone, very plainly, Greenland is imperative for National and World Security. There can be no going back \u2013 On that, everyone agrees!\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump then posted an AI-generated image of himself in the Oval Office showing European leaders a map that includes Canada, Greenland and Venezuela as U.S. territory.<\/p>\n

The President has insisted he wants to control Greenland to better defend the U.S. from Russian and Chinese encroachment in the Western Hemisphere. But the U.S. already has a military base on the island and a 1951 treaty with Denmark that allows Washington to send more troops and build more facilities there.<\/p>\n

The emergency talks at Davos are likely to focus on European assurances that other NATO countries will step up Arctic security. Mr. Trump has repeatedly complained that the rest of NATO does not spend enough on defence, leaving the U.S. to shoulder a disproportionate burden.<\/p>\n

Carney stands behind Greenland, criticizes Trump without naming him in blunt Davos speech<\/a><\/p>\n

In Davos on Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada \u201cstrongly opposes\u201d the use of tariffs to coerce Europe over Greenland, warned that the world is in the middle of a \u201crupture\u201d of the rules-based international order, and called for countries to co-operate against coercion by the world\u2019s major powers.<\/p>\n

\u201cMiddle powers must act together, because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron told the World Economic Forum \u201cimperial ambitions\u201d are resurfacing amid \u201ca shift toward a world without rules, where international law is trampled underfoot and where the only law that seems to matter is that of the strongest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump has also threatened to impose a 200-per-cent tariff on French wines, including champagne, to coerce Mr. Macron into joining his planned \u201cboard of peace\u201d for Gaza. Mr. Macron is reportedly reluctant to join out of fear that Mr. Trump is trying to replace the United Nations Security Council with a body under his personal control.<\/p>\n

Early on Tuesday, Mr. Trump on Truth Social posted a screenshot of a text message from Mr. Macron, in which the French President wrote \u201cI do not understand what you are doing on Greenland\u201d and suggested an emergency G7 meeting and dinner in Paris on Thursday.<\/p>\n

In another post, Mr. Trump accused Britain of \u201ctotal weakness\u201d and \u201cGREAT STUPIDITY\u201d for a deal to turn over sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, including an island housing a joint U.S.-British air base, to Mauritius as part of a decolonization process. The agreement, which the Trump administration supported last year, includes continued U.S. use of the military base. <\/p>\n

At the news conference, Mr. Trump rejected Mr. Macron\u2019s G7 meeting request.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I wouldn\u2019t do that. Because, you know, Emmanuel\u2019s not going to be there very long, there\u2019s no longevity there,\u201d he said, referencing the end of Mr. Macron\u2019s term next year.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump said he had not spoken with Mr. Macron or British Prime Minister Keir Starmer since his social-media missives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey get a little bit rough when I\u2019m not around, but when I\u2019m around, they treat me very nicely,\u201d he said, before adding that both leaders have \u201cgot to straighten out their countries,\u201d including by getting rid of electricity-generating windmills.<\/p>\n

Asked if taking over the Panama Canal, which he threatened a year ago, was still on the table, Mr. Trump replied: \u201cSort of.\u201d<\/p>\n

The President held the news conference to mark the first anniversary of his return to office. Before fielding questions about Davos, an unusually subdued Mr. Trump spent an hour and 20 minutes slowly flipping through images of people arrested by immigration agents in Minneapolis and then reading a meandering list of his achievements from a stack of papers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like God is very proud of the job I\u2019ve done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions from the media during a press briefing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,43,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,41,39,42,40,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":{"0":"post-422667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-headlines","31":"tag-life-news","32":"tag-lifestyle","33":"tag-local-news","34":"tag-manitoba","35":"tag-national-news","36":"tag-new-brunswick","37":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","38":"tag-news","39":"tag-northwest-territories","40":"tag-nova-scotia","41":"tag-nunavut","42":"tag-ontario","43":"tag-pei","44":"tag-photos","45":"tag-political-news","46":"tag-political-opinion","47":"tag-politics","48":"tag-politics-news","49":"tag-quebec","50":"tag-sports-news","51":"tag-technology","52":"tag-top-news","53":"tag-top-stories","54":"tag-topnews","55":"tag-topstories","56":"tag-travel","57":"tag-trudeau","58":"tag-us-news","59":"tag-world-news","60":"tag-yukon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}