President Donald Trump speaks throughout an occasion to advertise funding in rural well being care within the East Room of the White Home, Friday, in Washington. AP-Yonhap
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — President Donald Trump recommended Friday that he might punish international locations with tariffs in the event that they don’t again the U.S. controlling Greenland, a message that got here as a Congressional delegation met Danish and Greenlandic lawmakers in Copenhagen and sought to decrease tensions.
Trump for months has insisted that the U.S. ought to management Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, and stated earlier this week that something lower than the Arctic island being in U.S. arms can be “unacceptable.”
“I could put a tariff on international locations in the event that they don’t go together with Greenland,” he stated Friday, with out offering particulars. “We want Greenland for nationwide safety.”
He had not beforehand talked about utilizing tariffs to attempt to pressure the difficulty.
Earlier this week, the international ministers of Denmark and Greenland met in Washington this week with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
That encounter didn’t resolve the deep variations, however did produce an settlement to arrange a working group — on whose function Denmark and the White Home then supplied sharply diverging public views. Greenland is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark, a NATO ally of the U.S.
