{"id":258361,"date":"2026-01-22T17:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/258361\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:57:08","slug":"trump-latest-trump-didnt-u-turn-nato-boss-tells-sky-news-as-denmark-praises-starmers-resolve-over-greenland-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/258361\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump latest: Trump didn&#8217;t U-turn, NATO boss tells Sky News &#8211; as Denmark praises Starmer&#8217;s resolve over Greenland | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/author\/david-blevins-473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">David Blevins<\/a>, US correspondent<\/p>\n<p>He has boarded Air Force One in Zurich, leaving the World Economic Forum digesting the impact of Trump 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s participation there has demonstrated two things &#8211; the extent to which the world gravitates towards and around him; and the extent to which he thrives on validation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From Greenland to Gaza to Ukraine, everything revolved around the 79-year-old president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>NATO boss Mark Rutte gave a masterclass in the art of approval, massaging the ego of the world\u2019s most powerful man. Many will criticise him for that, but it produced the desired result &#8211; a &#8220;deal&#8221; on Greenland that appears to do little but reaffirm the status quo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it has taken threats to seize Greenland by force or declare a US\/European trade war off the table, for now.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen world leaders queued up for a picture with the president as they signed up to his Board of Peace for Gaza \u2013 more validation.<\/p>\n<p>And Volodymyr Zelenskyy adopted the same tactic, comparing Europe&#8217;s approach to Greenland with Trump&#8217;s approach to Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian leader thanked Europe for security guarantees but added: &#8220;The backstop of President Trump is needed.&#8221; There is it again \u2013 validation.<\/p>\n<p>His &#8220;top-billing&#8221; speech lacked energy and he clearly mistook Iceland for Greenland several times, but Trump achieved what he went to do.<\/p>\n<p>He has reminded the world that the US is the dominant player on the stage and that he is the disrupter-in-chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By David Blevins, US correspondent He has boarded Air Force One in Zurich, leaving the World Economic Forum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-258361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}