Trump Won't Back Down Taking Over Greenland Making The Lives Of These People Hover In The Air
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| A protest against President Trump on Saturday in Nuuk, Greenland.Juliette Pavy for The New York Times |
Note from Adam: There has to be a financial magnet from Trump. This man does not do anything unless there is a piece of it for him first. Its interesting to Know that as the media goes deep on this, Trump is had a few court decision against him. Actual New York State is asking for both the Trump Tower and
Mar A Lago for payment of the $400+ billions he owns on the case he lost for sexual assault. Also more damaging information keeps coming out of the Epstein Files even though many pages are redacted 100% but still it seems investigators have found some meat. All these induces Trump to make as much noise as possible because he knows how to control the media and Im not talking about his fav Fox. The more noise the less hoopla about sex with minors.
Greenland: President Trump said one reason behind his push to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a message he sent to Norway’s prime minister. Jonas Gahr Store, Norway’s leader, received the text message on Sunday, three European officials familiar with the matter said on Monday. Read more ›
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Greenland
Jason Karaian
Jan. 19, 2026, 9:01 a.m. ET39 minutes ago
Jason Karaian
Financial markets are on edge, as investors react to President Trump’s renewed demands to acquire Greenland, backed by new tariff threats against European goods.
The Stoxx Europe index, which tracks the biggest public companies across Europe, fell more than 1 percent on Monday. Futures for U.S. stocks also slipped, but we won’t get a clear read on the direction of trading for another day, since U.S. markets are closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. More notably, the prices of gold and silver, often seen as havens during times of turmoil, set fresh records. Gold rose nearly 2 percent and silver jumped more than 5 percent.
Jeffrey Gettleman
Henrik Pryser Libell
Jan. 19, 2026, 8:14 a.m. ET1 hour ago
Jeffrey Gettleman and Henrik Pryser Libell
Trump tells Norway’s prime minister that he doesn’t feel obliged to ‘think purely of Peace.’
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| Donald Trump and Jonas Gahr Store sit in ornate chairs facing each other, conversing. A white model airplane is on a polished table in the foreground. |
President Trump and Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway during a meeting last year.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times
President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a text message he sent to Norway’s prime minister over the weekend.
Jonas Gahr Store, Norway’s leader, received the text message on Sunday, an official in the prime minister’s office said on Monday.
“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” Mr. Trump wrote in the message, which was first published by PBS.
In the message, Mr. Trump also questioned Denmark’s claim to Greenland, saying, “There are no written documents,” and adding, “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you!”
The tensions over Greenland have escalated in the past week, and the message injected a new level of uncertainty into Mr. Trump’s campaign to gain control of the island.
Greenland has been part of the Danish Kingdom for more than 300 years, and world leaders have condemned Mr. Trump’s insistence that the United States take over the territory, a giant icebound island in the Arctic region.
Mr. Store said in a statement that Mr. Trump’s text message was a response to a message that he sent to Mr. Trump on Sunday asking to speak to him about the crisis over Greenland and about Mr. Trump’s threat of using tariffs to pressure Denmark into selling Greenland to the United States, which Denmark has refused to do.
“As regards the Nobel Peace Prize, I have on several occasions clearly explained to Trump what is well known, namely that it is an independent Nobel Committee, and not the Norwegian government, that awards the prize,” Mr. Store said.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly challenged Denmark’s claims to Greenland, but in decades-old agreements that the United States has signed with Denmark, the United States has recognized Denmark’s close connection to the island.
A 2004 amendment to an older defense pact between Denmark and the United States, which grants the United States broad military access, explicitly recognizes Greenland as “an equal part of the Kingdom of Denmark.”
And in 1916, Denmark sold what are now the U.S. Virgin Islands to the United States for $25 million in gold. In the treaty for that deal, a clause reads, “The United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.”
In the past year, as Mr. Trump has repeatedly vowed to “get” Greenland, Denmark has repeatedly rebuffed him. Denmark’s position is that it does not have the authority to sell the self-governing territory and that Greenland’s 57,000 inhabitants will decide their own fate. Polls and interviews show that an overwhelming majority of Greenlanders strongly oppose joining the United States.
On Saturday, Greenlanders staged the biggest protest of recent months. Hundreds marched through the snowy streets of Nuuk, the capital, chanting, “No means no,” “Greenland is already great” and “Yankee, go home!”
In the past few days, Denmark and other European countries have sent more military forces to the island. Small groups of Danish soldiers dressed in green camouflage and dark woolen hats have been walking through downtown Nuuk. Beyond the harbor, a 200-foot-long Danish warship capable of breaking through ice has been patrolling the shoreline.
A much-anticipated three-way meeting last week of the United States, Denmark and Greenland, hosted by Vice President JD Vance in Washington, did not produce any breakthroughs and seemed to instead create misunderstandings.
It was the first time Greenland had been included in a such high-level discussions, and the Danish and Greenlandic officials left saying that a working group had been formed to explore possibilities for a solution. But the Trump administration said after that the two sides would begin “technical talks on the acquisition of Greenland,” a statement that raised even more concern in Greenland, in Denmark and across Europe.
Patrick Kingsley, Jeanna Smialek and Steven Erlanger contributed reporting.
Lizzie Dearden
Jan. 19, 2026, 5:31 a.m. ET4 hours ago
Lizzie DeardenReporting from London
Starmer says Greenland tariff threat is ‘completely wrong.’
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| Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain stands at a lectern and is flanked by British flags. |
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain speaking to the news media at Downing Street in London on Monday.Credit...Pool photo by Jordan Pettitt
The future of Greenland must be decided by Greenlanders and the people of Denmark, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain said on Monday, adding that his country must “stand up for its values” over President Trump’s most recent tariff threats.
Mr. Trump on Saturday demanded a deal to buy Greenland, threatening on social media to raise tariffs on several European nations over the issue. Those tariffs would start with 10 percent in February, then ramp up to 25 percent in June.
At a news conference in London on Monday morning, Mr. Starmer said that the United States remained a close ally of Britain but added, “We must stand up for our values.”
Mr. Starmer said a tariff war between the U.S. and European nations over Greenland was “not in anybody’s interests” and would affect businesses, workers and families on both sides of the Atlantic.
“Alliances endure because they’re built on respect and partnership, not pressure,” he said. “That is why I said the use of tariffs against allies is completely wrong.”
“There is a principle here that cannot be set aside, because it goes to the heart of how stable and trusted international cooperation works, and so any decision about the future status of Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland and the kingdom of Denmark alone,” he said.
“That right is fundamental, and we support it.”
Mr. Starmer spoke with Mr. Trump in a phone call on Sunday afternoon. A British government spokesman said that Mr. Starmer stated his views on the possible tariffs and said that nations who sent military personnel to Greenland were “pursuing the collective security of NATO allies.”
Britain sent a military officer to Greenland last week as part of a mission involving small numbers of troops from France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Netherlands, which Mr. Starmer said was to “assess and work on the risk from the Russians.”
The threats made by Mr. Trump have been condemned across the British political spectrum and drew rare criticism from Mr. Trump’s ally, Nigel Farage, who leads the right-wing populist Reform U.K. party.
Several NATO allies, including Britain, France and Germany, released a forceful joint statement with Denmark on Sunday that decried the tariff threats, saying that they “undermine trans-Atlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral.”
But Mr. Starmer appeared on Monday to rule out the imposition of retaliatory tariffs on American goods, which are being considered by the European Union. “We have not got to that stage, and my focus is making sure we don’t get to that stage,” he said.
Mr. Starmer said he would continue dialogue with Mr. Trump and expected to speak to him “in coming days.” He added, “We must find a pragmatic, sensible, sustained way through this that avoids some of the consequences that will be very serious.”
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Jeanna Smialek
Anushka Patil
Jan. 18, 2026, 6:56 p.m. ETJan. 18, 2026
Jeanna Smialek and Anushka Patil
European Union ambassadors held an emergency meeting on Sunday.
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| A large red and white flag is held by two people on a stone platform. |
The flag of Greenland flying outside the Danish Parliament on Friday.Credit...Hilary Swift for The New York Times
Faced with the threat of punishing tariffs by President Trump if he does not get his way over acquiring Greenland, European Union leaders began to coalesce around a negotiation strategy on Sunday, without ruling out retaliatory taxes of their own.
Mr. Trump on Saturday had demanded a deal to buy Greenland, saying on social media that otherwise he would slap tariffs on a group of European nations, starting with 10 percent in February, then ramping up to 25 percent in June.
On Sunday, ambassadors from across the 27-nation bloc met in Brussels to take stock of the situation. While those were just preliminary talks, they made a few things clear. Officials would rather negotiate than retaliate, for one. But they are also committed to protecting Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, from being bought or taken over if that is not what its people want.
The Trump administration showed no signs of backing down. In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that European leaders would eventually understand that American control of Greenland would be “best for Greenland, best for Europe and best for the United States.”
“The European leaders will come around,” Mr. Bessent said.
Late Sunday night, Mr. Trump said on social media that NATO had been telling Denmark for 20 years that the country needed to “get the Russian threat away from Greenland.”
“Unfortunately, Denmark has been unable to do anything about it,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Now it is time, and it will be done!!!”
He did not elaborate.
If Washington continues to exert pressure on the European Union over Greenland, European officials could also consider hitting back, two diplomats familiar with the discussions said.
Officials are entertaining the possibility of allowing a list of retaliatory tariffs worth 93 billion euros, or $107 billion — drawn up during last year’s trade war — to take effect in February.
And some members of the European Parliament and Emmanuel Macron, the French president, have suggested that the European Union should activate an even more drastic tool: A never-used weapon intended to combat economic coercion.
That option — officially called the “anti-coercion instrument,” and unofficially referred to as Europe’s trade “bazooka” — could be used to slap restrictions on big American technology companies or other service providers that conduct large amounts of business on the continent.
It would not be a first resort, the diplomats said, because it would risk escalating the conflict.
All the European Union’s options are likely to be up for discussion later this week, when leaders gather in Brussels. AntĂ³nio Costa, the president of the European Council, which gives the European Union political direction, announced on Sunday that he had “decided to convene an extraordinary meeting” of European leaders in the coming days. An E.U. official added that the meeting might be in person, and that it could take place on Thursday.
Such a session would allow prime ministers and presidents from across the bloc to discuss how they might respond to Mr. Trump. It would come as many European and U.S. policymakers head to Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum. Mr. Trump is also planning to attend, creating a chance for conversation.
While many European leaders are still hoping they might be able to talk things out, discussions have essentially been futile so far.
Europe has been hesitant to retaliate against the United States, in part because it relies on America for military technologies and support for NATO.
But Brando Benifei, a member of the European Parliament and the chair of its delegation for U.S. relations, said that calculus may be shifting, in part because popular opinion in Europe has turned more critical of the U.S.
“A lot of people are saying that we are clearly over a red line,” he said in an interview.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain spoke to Mr. Trump on Sunday and told him that “applying tariffs on allies for pursuing the collective security of NATO allies is wrong,” a Downing Street spokesman said.
Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, told reporters on Sunday that she had also spoken to Mr. Trump and called the proposed tariffs a “mistake.”
Mark Rutte, the secretary-general of NATO, said on social media that he, too, had spoken with Mr. Trump about Greenland, but provided few details, saying only that “we will continue working on this” and that he looked forward to seeing Mr. Trump at Davos this week.
The White House did not immediately comment on the spate of calls, which come a day after Mr. Trump’s announcement of new tariffs was met with unified outrage by U.S. allies. Several of those allies, including Britain, France and Germany, released a forceful joint statement with Denmark on Sunday that decried the tariff threats, saying that they “undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral.”
The co-signers of the statement, all NATO countries, said they would continue to stand in solidarity with Greenland and vowed to remain “united and coordinated in our response.” The statement was later endorsed by several other European countries, including Iceland, Latvia and Lithuania.
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Minho Kim
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