NATO, Trump and Greenland
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President Donald Trump’s Wednesday speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland was filled with inaccurate claims – notably including false and misleading statements about NATO and Greenland, the self-governing Danish territory he is pushing for the US to acquire.
NATO chief Mark Rutte says U.S. versus Danish control of Greenland was not discussed in his talks with President Donald Trump, which led to an agreement on new Greenland "framework."
The European Union’s top official has described U.S. President Donald Trump’s planned new tariffs over Greenland as a “mistake” between long-standing allies and called into question Trump’s trustworthiness.
Follow live coverage from NBC News as President Donald Trump launches his Board of Peace at Davos and Denmark, Greenland respond to the framework deal with NATO to cancel tariffs.
Trump will head to Davos, Switzerland, amid rising tensions with NATO allies over his Greenland acquisition plans and threatened tariffs on European nations.
Trump has long said he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who recently won the prize for her fight for democracy, gave her prize medal to Trump. But the Norwegian Nobel Committee said the award can’t be revoked, shared or transferred.
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Trump and Greenland: not a joke, but a US strategy all along
When President Trump first floated the idea of buying Greenland in 2019, the international response ranged from ridicule to satire. The notion of purchasing a vast, icy landmass from Denmark seemed like another erratic outburst.
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'We’ll have everything we want': US to obtain sovereignty over its Greenland army bases, Trump says
Following meetings at the World Economic Forum in Davos and talks with NATO chief Mark Rutte, according to the report, Trump announced there was a “framework” for a deal.