U.S. President Donald Trump said connected Sunday (January 18, 2026) that Denmark has not been capable to bash thing to get the “Russian threat” distant from Greenland, and said, “Now it is time, and it volition beryllium done!!!”
“NATO has been telling Denmark, for 20 years, that “you person to get Russian menace distant from Greenland.” Unfortunately, Denmark has been incapable to bash thing astir it,” Mr. Trump wrote successful a station connected the societal media website helium owns called Truth Social.

The White House, the Danish Presidency successful the European Union, and Denmark’s Foreign Affairs Ministry did not instantly respond to a Reuters’ petition for comment.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly insisted helium will settee for thing little than ownership of Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.
Leaders of some Denmark and Greenland person insisted the land is not for merchantability and does not privation to beryllium portion of the United States.

Mr. Trump connected Saturday (January 17, 2026) vowed to instrumentality a question of expanding tariffs connected European allies until the United States is allowed to bargain Greenland.
The encroaching beingness of China and Russia makes Greenland captious to U.S. information interests, Mr. Trump has said. Danish and different European officials person pointed retired that Greenland is already covered by NATO’s corporate information pact.

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