A warm-up speech before Davos?published at 20:56 GMT
20:56 GMT
Anthony Zurcher
North America correspondent
Image source, EPAImage caption,
Trump appeared at Davos remotely last year, a few days after his inauguration
After a
series of late-night Truth Social posts rattled America’s allies, Donald Trump
took a more measured attitude in his comments in the White House press
room today.
He said he “gets along well” with British PM Keir Starmer
and French President Emmanuel Macron, adding that the latter was “a
nice guy”.
On his desire to acquire Greenland, Trump said that he
thinks “things are going to work out pretty well” and that he has “a lot of
meetings scheduled” on the subject when he is in Davos, Switzerland, tomorrow.
It’s not unusual for Trump to run hot and cold when dealing
with foreign leaders, depending on the circumstances and his mood. In Davos
earlier today, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent counselled European leaders to
be patient.
But given the amount of push-back the American president
has received from his foreign counterparts in the past few days, Trump may find
it harder to calm frayed nerves when he arrives in Switzerland tomorrow.