interview with the New York Post<\/a>, Trump said the U.S. will gain sovereignty over parts of Greenland that host American military bases\u2014and take ownership of that land.<\/p>\n\u201cYeah,\u201d he told the Post. \u201cWe\u2019ll have everything we want. We have some interesting talks going on.\u201d<\/p>\n
But one of the proposals under discussion wouldn\u2019t entail U.S. ownership of Greenlandic territory while still allowing sovereignty over bases, such as the Pituffik Space Base, the report added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Such an arrangement would mimic the sovereignty that the U.K. has over its military bases on Cyprus, a source told the Post.<\/p>\n
The remarks came days after Trump pulled back his threat to impose tariffs on several NATO countries unless they supported his bid to control all of Greenland.<\/p>\n
Following a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, he agreed to a \u201cframework\u201d on a future security deal. Details were sparse, but Trump indicated it would grant the U.S. \u201ctotal access\u201d to Greenland and would involve his \u201cGolden Dome\u201d missile-defense system.<\/p>\n
At the time, a NATO spokesperson said that Rutte \u201cdid not propose any compromise to sovereignty during his meeting with President Trump,\u201d adding that negotiations between Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. will proceed to ensure the island\u2019s security from Russia and China.<\/p>\n
But Trump\u2019s claim that the U.S. will have sovereignty in Greenland where bases are located may trigger pushback from Europe.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen was asked if U.S. sovereignty over small pockets of the island might be possible. He replied, \u201cwe are ready to negotiate a better partnership and so on, but sovereignty is a red line.\u201d<\/p>\n
Similarly, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said \u201cwe cannot negotiate on our sovereignty\u201d and added \u201cI have been informed that this has not been the case.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her office didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump\u2019s interview.<\/p>\n
Looming over negotiations on U.S. bases on Greenland is Trump\u2019s unpredictability and tendency for sudden reversals. <\/p>\n
The fragility of any agreements made by Trump was highlighted by the Greenland crisis, during which he also refused to rule out using the U.S. military against NATO allies. <\/p>\n
Despite reaching a trade deal with the European Union last year that set most tariffs at 15%, he vowed to hit EU and non-EU countries with an additional 10% duty that would rise to 25%.<\/p>\n
Trump has also demonstrated a renewed eagerness to turn to tariffs as a foreign policy tool. On Saturday, he said the U.S. would impose a 100% tariff on Canada<\/a> if it makes a trade deal with China, days after he voiced his approval of one. <\/p>\nIt wasn\u2019t clear from Trump\u2019s social media post on Saturday if his latest threat against Ottawa would also remove the tariff exemption on imports covered by the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact.<\/p>\n
In addition, he said earlier this month the U.S. will impose secondary levies on countries that trade with Iran as he seeks to squeeze Tehran amid anti-regime protests. That could blow up his tariff ceasefire with China, which imports oil from Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump and NATO temporarily defused a crisis over his attempt to take over Greenland, but details…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":540715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8298,1802,8959,50,4053,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-540714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-greenland","9":"tag-military","10":"tag-nato","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tariffs-and-trade","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115953178997252663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}