{"id":2588,"date":"2026-01-16T22:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/donald-trump-threatens-tariffs-on-allies-over-opposition-to-greenland-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:23:16","slug":"donald-trump-threatens-tariffs-on-allies-over-opposition-to-greenland-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/donald-trump-threatens-tariffs-on-allies-over-opposition-to-greenland-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump threatens tariffs on allies over opposition to Greenland plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=8c804726-aecb-4d48-b532-91334be8cd1b&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on trading partners that do not back his efforts to acquire Greenland as he redoubles his drive to take over the Arctic island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI may put a tariff on countries if they don\u2019t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that,\u201d the US president said at a White House event on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has strengthened his rhetoric about wanting the Danish territory in recent weeks and has not ruled out using military force to take it, rattling Washington\u2019s European allies. Trump says that if the US does not take the Arctic island, Russia or China would claim it.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to rebut Trump\u2019s designs on the island, some European Nato members, including Denmark, this week agreed to send troops to reinforce Greenland\u2019s security and called for a more permanent presence on the island. <\/p>\n<p>Asked on Friday whether he would pull the US from Nato if the alliance does not help him acquire the territory, Trump said: \u201cWell we\u2019re going to see. Nato has been dealing with us on Greenland. We need Greenland for national security very badly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we don\u2019t have it, we have a big hole in national security, especially when it comes to what we\u2019re doing in terms of the Golden Dome,\u201d he added, referring to the $175bn layered missile defence shield he has ordered to be made to protect the US against advanced missile threats.<\/p>\n<p>The threat to impose tariffs on US trading partners if they do not support Trump\u2019s push to acquire Greenland threatens to drive a new wedge between Washington and its European trading partners.<\/p>\n<p>Any substantial increase in duties could also derail trade deals struck between foreign capitals and Washington last year, including with the EU and UK, threatening a sharp escalation of global trade tension at a time of geopolitical instability.<\/p>\n<p>The president on Friday said his previous tariff threats to the leaders of countries including France and Germany had resulted in those countries co-operating with him on lowering drug prices and a similar approach could help him get the island. \u201cI may do that for Greenland too,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Danish politicians reacted to the tariff threat with dismay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are dealing with a completely unpredictable president\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009We are dealing with a man who cannot be trusted, who is unpredictable, and who is certainly driven by the violence of his emotions,\u201d said Inger St\u00f8jberg, a former minister and head of the Danish Democrats party.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has previously said he would like to strike a deal with Denmark and Greenland over acquiring the territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope to make a deal with them. It\u2019s easier,\u201d Trump said on Sunday. \u201cBut one way or the other, we\u2019re going to have Greenland.\u201d The White House earlier this month said \u201cutilising the US military is always an option\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The tariff threat comes two days after the US, Denmark and Greenland agreed to establish a high-level working group to discuss the island\u2019s future. However, Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen, Danish foreign minister, on Wednesday said \u201cfundamental disagreement\u201d remained between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s threat also marks his latest effort to deploy tariffs to bludgeon foreign governments into aligning with US foreign policy goals.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the US placed duties on Mexico, Canada and China over their role in fentanyl manufacturing, hit Brazil with extra levies over its treatment of former president Jair Bolsonaro and applied 25 per cent extra fees to countries purchasing Russian oil.<\/p>\n<p>Trump earlier this week threatened to impose a tariff of 25 per cent on all countries trading with Iran in a move that could affect China and India, but his administration has not taken steps to apply the levies. <\/p>\n<p>Some Republicans on Capitol Hill have publicly broken with the president over his drive to take Greenland and a bipartisan group of US lawmakers visited Denmark on Friday to offer their support to Copenhagen and express their opposition to Trump\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreenland needs to be viewed as our ally, not as an asset. And I think that\u2019s what you\u2019re hearing with this delegation,\u201d Republican senator Lisa Murkowski said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on trading partners that do not back his efforts to acquire Greenland as he redoubles his drive to take over the Arctic island. \u201cI may put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b03185c0-b125-4755-85cb-bdba3a09802c.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}