Europe, Trump and Greenland
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A White House meeting on Wednesday, when Danish and Greenlandic officials met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, yielded little progress. Trump has not ruled out military intervention in Greenland, which Denmark said would spell the end of NATO, whose members will hold exercises without U.S. involvement.
As President Donald Trump has renewed his push to annex Greenland in recent weeks, many world leaders have raised vocal objections.
Trump, calling himself "the tariff king," threatened to impose tariffs on other countries to force them to accept US control of Greenland.
In January 2026, a video (archived) spread online purportedly showing a man speaking to camera, saying that if the U.S. takes Greenland, Europe will "take every single base of the Americans," and, "if [the U.S. takes] Greenland, you have to leave."
Several NATO countries are deploying small numbers of military personnel to Greenland to participate in joint exercises with Denmark as US President Donald Trump ramps up his threats to forcibly annex the Arctic island.