Posted on 01/24/2025 1:18:02 PM PST by Miami Rebel
US President Donald Trump had a “fiery” and contentious phone call with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen last week, during which Trump insisted he was serious about taking over Greenland, European officials told the Financial Times.
The officials, who were not identified by the FT, said the conversation had gone very badly, with one describing it as “horrendous.” Another official said that Trump’s intention to take over Greenland was “serious, and potentially very dangerous.”
For weeks, Trump has voiced his interest in taking over Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada, in what analysts say reflect his hardball diplomacy. Frederiksen has asserted that Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, is not for sale.
While her office dismissed the officials’ “interpretation” of the Trump call, one former Danish official told the FT that Trump also threatened to target Denmark with tariffs.
Trump’s critics have warned that his interest in Greenland — which occupies a strategically important position for the US — will destabilize the US alliance with Denmark, Semafor reported, while Trump allies argue that a bigger role for the US in Greenland would be vital to national security in countering Russia and China.
The call is “likely to deepen European concerns that Trump’s return to power will strain transatlantic ties more than ever,” the FT wrote, while Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum argued that for Denmark, “the most difficult aspect of the crisis is not the need to prepare for an unspecified economic threat from a close ally, but the need to cope with a sudden sense of almost Kafkaesque absurdity.”
Since his first term as president, Trump has floated the idea of annexing Greenland to expand US access to crucial Arctic trading routes and vast mineral resources. But he has recently doubled down on the proposal and has not ruled out using force to conquer the island.
The president has also expressed interest in reclaiming the Panama Canal which he claims has unfairly given China economic and security advantages in the region.
All schtick.
The US is not annexing Greenland.
Please, President Trump. I didn't vote for you to focus on schtick or trolling. Now forget Greenland and get back to our serious domestic problems.
I’ve seen that most people in Greenland do not want to be part of the US. If that is true, it’s time for Trump to back off.
Damn, hope Traitor Vindman wasn’t listening in on the call
...offer a million each to its 54,000 inhabitants, it would be cheap for $54B
Trump should give a speech saying that any country that wants to become a state should apply.
I love how this makes the liberals go Nuts
Might does not make right but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding generation
That’s definitely his style.
But I don’t like the bullying either.
If the people of Greenland push for independence, and then choose to become part of the US, I’m fine with that.
President Trump is too smart not to have a reason behind what he is doing - although it may seem to us to be foolish.
I bet they would do it for 100,000
Could you imagine buying Greenland for less than 1 $billion
Well, either China or Russia will end up seizing Greenland in a couple of decades.
So we might as well as take it.
Could not be identified equals bull crap.
Well put!
Who gives a shit about Denmark?
He can and IS focusing on domestic issues.
What other President is ever accomplished more in five days?
Greenland Prime Minister Mute Egede (January 16 on Fox News):
“The Greenlandic people don’t want to be Americans.”
“Trump also threatened to target Denmark with tariffs.”
What? Does this guy think he’s special? Trump threatens all countries with tariffs.
What President has accomplished more in five days?
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