Tensions between the US, Greenland and Europe have reached a boiling point as the president threatens to impose tariffs<\/a> on eight European countries and has refused to rule out military force in his pursuit to gain control of Denmark\u2019s self-governing territory. <\/p>\n During an interview on British politician Nigel Farage<\/a>\u2019s GB News show Monday, Johnson said his role in this global fissure is to keep everyone calm.<\/p>\n Farage, a longstanding ally of Trump<\/a>, warned that the president\u2019s actions threaten the North American-European military alliance of NATO<\/a>, of which the U.S. and Denmark are members.<\/p>\n \u201c\u200aThis is serious and you\u2019re here about to speak before Parliament. Is there nothing that can be done here?\u201d Farage, leader of the Reform Party, asked Johnson. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n House Speaker Mike Johnson has said he aims to ‘calm the situation’ over President Donald Trump\u2019s threats to acquire Greenland during his trip to the United Kingdom (Leon Neal\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n Johnson replied: \u201c\u200aI’m here to encourage our friends and calm the situation. Maybe it’s providential that I happen to be here right now. This was not planned,\u201d adding, \u201c\u200aI think we’re gonna get beyond this little rift.\u201d<\/p>\n The Louisiana Republican said he doesn\u2019t think NATO is threatened and said Trump \u201cgreatly values\u201d the alliance. <\/p>\n Johnson will be the first sitting house speaker to address the Parliament in London on Tuesday. His address is in honor of America\u2019s 250th anniversary and was announced earlier this month. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Nigel Farage said Trump’s actions, including waging a potential trade war, threaten the NATO military alliance, which Johnson denied (Dan Kitwood\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n \u201cThe U.S. and the UK have stood together as pillars of peace and security across generations,\u201d Johnson said when announcing the trip. \u201cWe forged this important friendship in the great wars of the 20th century, but the true source of our strength comes from our shared commitment to individual freedom, human dignity, and the rule of law, which together form the exceptional, joint heritage of the English-speaking world.\u201d<\/p>\n British Prime Minister Keir Starmer<\/a> has also called to calm the tensions between the U.S. and the U.K., saying that \u201ca trade war is in no one\u2019s interests.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has also called to calm the tensions between the U.S. and the U.K., saying that ‘a trade war is in no one\u2019s interests’ (Jordan Pettitt\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n \u201cThe use of tariffs against allies is completely wrong,\u201d Starmer said during an emergency press conference Monday. \u201cAny decision about the future status of Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark alone.\u201d<\/p>\n Starmer added that the \u201cright way to approach an issue of this seriousness is through calm discussion between allies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-379754","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\/379754","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=379754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"House](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2256525062.jpg\")
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