{"id":413624,"date":"2026-01-17T20:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413624\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:49:17","slug":"trump-pledges-to-slap-tariffs-on-european-allies-over-greenland-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/413624\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pledges to slap tariffs on European allies over Greenland | Donald Trump News"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump has said a number of European allies will be hit with a series of increasing tariffs for opposing United States control of Greenland, as he escalates his campaign to acquire the semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.<\/p>\n

In a \u200dpost on \u2060Truth Social on Saturday, Trump said 10 percent tariffs would come into effect on February 1 on \u200bDenmark, \u200cFinland, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

He added those tariffs \u200cwould rise to \u200c25 percent on June \u20601 and would continue until an agreement is reached \u200cfor the US to buy Greenland.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate reaction from the European countries.<\/p>\n

Trump indicated in his lengthy social media post that the tariffs were being imposed in retaliation for trips to Greenland \u201cfor purposes unknown\u201d by representatives from the countries, accusing all eight of playing a \u201cvery dangerous game\u201d in opposing US control of the territory.<\/p>\n

The US had been trying to purchase Greenland \u201cfor over 150 years\u201d, he said, adding that the \u201cneed to AQUIRE\u201d the territory had become all the more essential for the planned US missile defence shield known as the Golden Dome, which would include the \u201cpossible protection of Canada\u201d.<\/p>\n

Reporting from Washington, Al Jazeera\u2019s Mike Hanna noted Trump\u2019s move was \u201can unprecedented step\u201d. \u201cClearly President Trump is taking this very seriously, imposing tariffs against the US\u2019s closest allies,\u201d he said, noting his characteristically capitalised warnings on the \u201csafety, security and survival of our planet.<\/p>\n

Protests in Denmark and Greenland<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s announcement came as thousands of people rallied<\/a> in cities across Denmark to reject the Republican\u2019s repeated threats to take control of Greenland.<\/p>\n

In the capital, Copenhagen, protesters waved the flags of Denmark and Copenhagen and chanted slogans such as \u201cKalaallit Nunaat\u201d \u2013 the Arctic island\u2019s name in Greenlandic.<\/p>\n

And in Greenland\u2019s capital Nuuk, hundreds of people braved near-freezing temperatures, rain and icy streets to march in a rally in support of their own self-governance.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Rory Challands, who reported live from the Nuuk demonstration, said that for people returning from today\u2019s protests, news of Trump \u201cupping the ante\u201d with his tariffs would be \u201cvery worrying indeed\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey know that there is nothing that they could do if Donald Trump really did want to send in the troops,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDenmark knows there is nothing really that they could do if Donald Trump really wants to send the troops. What they have been trying to do over the last weeks is to reassure him that they can take Arctic security seriously,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The protests took place hours after a bipartisan US congressional delegation in Copenhagen sought to reassure Denmark and Greenland of their support.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that the people of the Kingdom of Denmark do not abandon their faith in the American people,\u201d said Senator Chris Coons, adding that the US has respect for Denmark and NATO \u201cfor all we\u2019ve done together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Internal NATO spat<\/p>\n

The threat of tariffs takes what Challands described as \u201can internal NATO\u201d spat to a new level, marking a potentially dangerous escalation of tensions that will place further strain an alliance that dates to 1949 and provides a collective degree of security to Europe and North America.<\/p>\n

Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has insisted for months that the US should control Greenland. Earlier this week, he said that anything less than the Arctic island being in US hands would be \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the latest poll published in January of last year, 85 percent of Greenlanders oppose the territory joining the US, while only 6 percent were in favour.<\/p>\n

While Greenland and Denmark have rejected the idea of the island being \u201cowned\u201d by the US, efforts to get the US administration to change its stance have so far appeared to fail.<\/p>\n

The foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland left a meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington, DC, this week, saying that they \u201cdidn\u2019t manage to change the American position\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s clear that the president has this wish of conquering over Greenland,\u201d Danish Foreign Minister\u00a0Lars Lokke Rasmussen told reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump has said a number of European allies will be hit with a series of increasing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,34356,12,1076,21836,594,6797,6802,3,6803,6804,1049,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-413624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-denmark","tag-donald-trump","tag-europe","tag-finland","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-netherlands","tag-news","tag-norway","tag-sweden","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}