{"id":225879,"date":"2026-01-10T00:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225879\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:20:09","slug":"trump-says-us-will-deal-with-greenland-easy-way-or-hard-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225879\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US will deal with Greenland &#8216;easy way&#8217; or &#8216;hard way&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JVHJ0J_AFP__20251229__2253972531__v3__HighRes__PresidentTrumpMeetsWithIsraeliPmNetanyahuAtH_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 29: U.S. President Donald Trump holds a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago club on December 29, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. The two leaders held a bilateral meeting to discuss regional security in the Middle East as well as the U.S.-Israel partnership.   Joe Raedle\/Getty Images\/AFP (Photo by JOE RAEDLE \/ GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA \/ Getty Images via AFP)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nUS President Donald Trump.<br \/>\nPhoto: Joe Raedle \/ Getty Images \/ AFP\n<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump &#8211; who has made no secret of his wish to take control of Greenland, a Danish territory &#8211; has said on Friday (US time) he would deal with the issue head-on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way. But if we don&#8217;t do it the easy way, we&#8217;re going to do it the hard way,&#8221; Trump said at a White House meeting with oil executives.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said controlling the mineral-rich island is crucial for US national security given the rising military activity of Russia and China in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p>-AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump. Photo: Joe Raedle \/ Getty Images \/ AFP US President Donald Trump &#8211; who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-225879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}