{"id":88641,"date":"2026-01-16T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88641\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:27:09","slug":"trump-says-he-may-punish-countries-with-tariffs-if-they-dont-back-the-us-controlling-greenland-ap-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88641\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don\u2019t back the US controlling Greenland | Ap-business"},"content":{"rendered":"

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump suggested Friday that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don\u2019t back the U.S. controlling Greenland<\/a>, a message that came as a Congressional delegation met Danish and Greenlandic lawmakers in Copenhagen and sought to lower tensions.<\/p>\n

Trump for months has insisted that the U.S. should control Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, and said earlier this week that anything less than the Arctic island being in U.S. hands would be \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI may put a tariff on countries if they don\u2019t go along with Greenland,\u201d he said Friday, without providing details. \u201cWe need Greenland for national security.\u201d<\/p>\n

He had not previously mentioned using tariffs to try to force the issue.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland met in Washington this week with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n

That encounter didn\u2019t resolve the deep differences<\/a>, but did produce an agreement to set up a working group \u2014 on whose purpose Denmark and the White House then offered sharply diverging public views<\/a>. Greenland is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, a NATO ally<\/a> of the U.S.<\/p>\n

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