{"id":375763,"date":"2026-01-17T20:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375763\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:13:11","slug":"starmer-brands-trumps-plan-to-apply-tariffs-over-greenland-completely-wrong-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375763\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer brands Trump’s plan to apply tariffs over Greenland ‘completely wrong’ – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analysis\"A surprise announcement, escalating battle over Greenlandpublished at 16:59 GMT<\/p>\n

16:59 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Bernd Debusmann Jr
Travelling with President Trump<\/p>\n

I’m currently travelling with Trump in Florida, where the White House press corps assumed – wrongly – that the US president would enjoy a quiet morning on the golf course. <\/p>\n

Trump’s announcement about the tariffs against several Nato allies represents an escalation in his recently rekindled drive to acquire Greenland, despite the opposition of European governments. <\/p>\n

The White House has, in recent weeks, repeatedly made clear that all options are on the table to Trump as he seeks to take control of the island. <\/p>\n

Still, the announcement is something of a surprise, particularly as it comes just days after US and Danish officials agreed to form a working group. <\/p>\n

Some observers in Washington had interpreted that agreement as one that would, at the very least, buy time. The tariffs have now injected a newfound sense of urgency into the issue. <\/p>\n

On the other hand, Trump has often mused that “tariff” is his favourite word. It’s become a favoured tool to wield to achieve concrete foreign policy objectives. <\/p>\n

For now, we have little expectation that we will hear from Trump directly today. <\/p>\n

But at 15:30 ET\/ 20:30 GMT, Trump is scheduled to hold a closed door meeting with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico at Mar-a-Lago. At the White House, similar events often open to the press at the last moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A surprise announcement, escalating battle over Greenlandpublished at 16:59 GMT 16:59 GMT Bernd Debusmann JrTravelling with President Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-375763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}