{"id":236886,"date":"2026-01-16T20:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/236886\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T20:36:09","slug":"trump-threatens-tariffs-on-countries-that-dont-back-greenland-takeover-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/236886\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens tariffs on countries that don’t back Greenland takeover plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nUS President Donald Trump said he may impose tariffs on countries that don’t support a US takeover of Greenland, during a meeting about health care investments, in the White House, on 16 January.
\nPhoto: AFP\/ Brendan Smialowski\n<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump says he may impose trade tariffs on countries that don’t support his plans to take over Greenland, part of the territory of NATO ally Denmark.<\/p>\n

“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security,” Trump said at a health roundtable at the White House.<\/p>\n

“I may do that,” he added.<\/p>\n

Trump compared the possible Greenland tariffs to those that he threatened on France and Germany last year over the price of pharmaceutical products.<\/p>\n

The threat is the latest pressure tactic by Republican Trump as he steps up his bid to acquire the autonomous Arctic island, a goal that he has threatened to achieve by military means if necessary.<\/p>\n

Trump claims the United States needs mineral-rich Greenland and has accused Greenland of not doing enough to ensure its security against rivals Russia and China.<\/p>\n

European nations have in recent days shown their support for Denmark and Greenland over Trump’s escalating threats, including by sending troops to the strategic territory.<\/p>\n

A bipartisan US Congress delegation also began a visit to Copenhagen on Friday to voice their backing for Denmark and Greenland.<\/p>\n

The foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland visited the White House on Wednesday for talks to defuse the issue<\/a> but said afterward that they remained in “fundamental disagreement” with Trump.<\/p>\n

But the United States, Denmark and Greenland had agreed to set up a working group to continue talks every two to three weeks on the issue, the White House said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

– AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said he may impose tariffs on countries that don’t support a US takeover of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236887,"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-236886","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\/236886","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=236886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}