US President addressed the main topic of global current affairs before traveling to Switzerland to participate in the World Economic Forum meeting
On a Tuesday marked by strong statements in Davos, at the International Economic Forum meeting, Donald Trump’s participation in the daily White House briefing heated up the other side of the Atlantic.
Greenland, the Arctic island that has given Denmark and the rest of Europe so many headaches, was the main topic. Trump once again said that the US needs it for the sake of national and global security, guaranteeing that NATO and the situation around Greenland will be resolved “very well”.
“I believe we will reach an agreement in which NATO will be very happy and in which we will also be very satisfied”, he said, adding that the Greenlanders will be “very excited” to join the USA – a survey from around a year ago, however, shows that the territory is controlled by Washington DC.
On the eve of his presence in Davos, where he will go for the first time since 2020, Trump also once again questioned whether the remaining NATO countries would defend the USA if necessary, apparently unaware that the only country that has ever activated article 5 of the organization’s founding treaty was the USA itself.
“I have done more for NATO than anyone else, living or dead,” said Trump, before leaving for Davos later this Tuesday. “The big fear I have about NATO is that we have spent enormous amounts of money on NATO, and I know we will come to their aid, but I seriously question whether they will come to our aid,” said the president.
If the pressure of tariffs cannot be exerted on Europe, due to a possible defeat by the Supreme Court, Trump says he has other methods at his disposal. “We’ll have to use something else,” he said, adding that he would “take a look at the word ‘licenses’ and other things.”
The American leader also said that tariffs continue to be his preferred approach. “What we are doing now is the best, the strongest, the fastest, the easiest, the least complicated,” he stressed, without revealing how far he is willing to go to guarantee the island’s sovereignty. “They’ll find out,” said the American leader.
