Trump threatens tariffs on countries that oppose Greenland takeover plans
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The news: US President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on countries that oppose efforts by his administration to take control of Greenland.
“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that,” the president said at the White House on Friday.
The context: Speaking at an event on healthcare, Trump said that the threat of tariffs against countries including France and German had helped him push down high prices of prescription drugs, adding that the same approach could help his efforts to take control of the territory.
The news comes as a bipartisan group of US Congress members visited Denmark on Friday to show support in the face of increasing pressure from Trump to annex the region.
Earlier this week, Trump said that the US needs Greenland for national security purposes, adding that the island is “vital for the Golden Dome” the US building. He added that NATO should be “leading the way for us to get it.”
Trump has previously argued that the island would provide an essential strategic buffer in the region to protect against key US adversaries, saying that he will take it "the easy way or the hard way".
The sources: WSJ, ABC, BBC, The Guardian
