Nik Popli – TIME Jan 21, 2026
President Donald Trump delivered a defiant and combative address at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, using the annual gathering of world leaders and business executives to tout America’s role as the world’s main peacekeeper and economic engine, and make his most explicit case yet for the U.S. to acquire Greenland from Denmark.
Calling for “immediate negotiations” with Denmark, Trump asserted that Greenland was essential to American and global security, even as he insisted he would not use military force to obtain it—his clearest effort yet to somewhat soften the threat behind a demand that has already unsettled NATO allies.
“We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, where we would be, frankly, unstoppable,” Trump said. “But I won’t do that.”
He added: “I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force. All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland.” Yet the President made clear that he still envisioned full American ownership of the semiautonomous Danish territory, arguing that “you need the ownership to defend it” and that “you can’t defend it on a lease.”
“This enormous unsecured Island is actually part of North America, on the northern frontier of the Western Hemisphere,” Trump said. “That’s our territory.”
The comments underscored Trump’s willingness to wield raw power and transactional threats in pursuit of territorial and strategic gains—even at the risk of tearing at alliances that have anchored Western security since World War II.
While Trump insisted he did not intend to use force, he coupled that assurance with a thinly veiled warning: “You can say yes and we will be very appreciative, or you can say no, and we will remember.” That combination of conciliation and coercion came up repeatedly throughout Trump’s remarks. He boasted of forcing NATO members to increase defense spending, even as he questioned whether they would come to America’s aid if the United States were attacked. He described Europe as dependent on American protection but insufficiently grateful for it. “The problem with NATO is that we’ll be there for them 100%,” he said. “But I’m not sure that they’d be there for us.”
Trump’s speech, which lasted more than an hour, emphasized how dramatically his maximalist foreign policy has shifted the footing of those attending the annual World Economic Forum. Once a bastion of multilateralism and consensus-building, the forum this week revolved around a single question: how to navigate a world increasingly shaped by one leader’s willingness to pressure allies as aggressively as rivals.
Trump began his remarks focused on delivering a triumphant verdict on his first year back in office, calling it “the fastest and most dramatic economic turnaround in our country’s history” and claiming inflation had been “defeated,” the border rendered “virtually impenetrable” and growth set to surpass any previous benchmark. He contrasted his record with what he described as the “nightmare of stagflation” under former President Joe Biden whom he repeatedly derided as “the autopen.”
But what unfolded over the course of his lengthy speech was less a celebration of economic revival than a sweeping assertion of American dominance—and of his own role as its chief architect—over allies, adversaries and institutions alike.
“The USA is the economic engine of the planet,” Trump declared. “And when America booms, the entire world booms.”
“Without us, right now you’d all be speaking German and a little Japanese, perhaps,” Trump said to the room full of billionaires, government officials, and diplomats.
Trump warned that “certain places in Europe are not even recognizable anymore,” blaming “unchecked mass migration,” environmental policies, and the outsourcing of heavy industry for what he called the continent’s decline. He criticized Europe multiple times, even as many of its leaders sat in the audience.
“The more windmills a country has,” he said, “the more money that country loses.”
He urged other nations to “follow what we’re doing” while making clear that noncompliance would carry costs. He boasted of slashing regulations and cutting tariffs on domestic producers while raising them on foreign goods, and he claimed to have reduced the U.S. trade deficit dramatically while securing deals covering 40% of American trade.
The message resonated uneasily in Europe, where leaders have spent the past year struggling to navigate a more transactional and confrontational Washington. Emergency summits, retaliatory tariff planning, and quiet efforts to insulate European industries from American pressure have become a staple of the diplomatic calendar since Trump returned to office.
Nowhere was that tension clearer than when Trump turned to Greenland. “No nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the United States,” he said, recounting how American forces defended the island during World War II before returning it to Denmark, a decision he now questioned. “How ungrateful are they now?” he added. At various points, Trump appeared to confuse Greenland with Iceland. “Iceland has already cost us a lot of money,” he said, a reference to the stock market’s recent dip. By the end of his address, the U.S. stock market had risen following his assurances that no military action would be used to acquire Greenland.
The comments came amid a growing rift with Denmark and other European governments, which have rejected any suggestion that the island could be sold or transferred. In recent weeks, Denmark has increased its military presence in Greenland, joined by Germany, Sweden and Norway.
The President’s posture stood in sharp contrast to the thinly veiled condemnations of U.S. policy delivered on Tuesday in Davos by key European figures. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada warned of a “rupture” in the world order, declaring that the rules-based international system was eroding and that “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.” French President Emmanuel Macron decried the use of coercion and tariffs to advance territorial ambitions, asserting that Europe would not accept the “law of the strongest” or be intimidated by “bullies.”
Trump responded to their comments by singling out both leaders. He mocked Macron’s sunglasses before recounting how he said he forced France’s leader to narrow the gap between French and American drug prices by threatening sweeping tariffs. “Emmanuel, you’re going to do it, and you’re going to do it fast,” Trump said he told the French leader, recalling a threat to impose a 25% tariff on French goods and a 100% tariff on French wine and champagne if he did not comply. French officials have previously disputed aspects of his account.
“Canada gets a lot of freebies from us,” Trump said, adding that it “should be grateful” to the United States. Referring directly to Carney’s appearance at Davos, he said, “I watched your Prime Minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful.”
“Canada lives because of the United States,” Trump added. “Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.”
The episodes served as a broader illustration of Trump’s approach to diplomacy: not as a matter of quiet negotiation among allies, but as a series of public confrontations in which leverage is applied through the blunt use of American economic power.
At Davos, such remarks landed with particular force. Halfway through the speech, a senior Western European official told TIME: “We can’t react to everything he says. We have our values and our interests, and we have to work with the U.S. to protect them. We have to talk. We listen; then we talk.”
Trump’s speech also revisited long-standing grievances and disputed claims: that his 2020 election loss was “rigged,” that he had single-handedly settled eight wars in the past year, and that the war in Ukraine would never have happened had he remained in office.
He touted a deal with Venezuela over oil production, took credit for wiping out Iran’s nuclear program, praised the expansion of U.S. nuclear and artificial intelligence infrastructure, and spoke admiringly of allowing private companies to build their own power plants. Throughout, Trump returned to a central theme: that American power, unapologetically wielded, was the ultimate guarantor of global stability.
“We did a lot of big things, all perfectly executed,” Trump said.
The rantings of a criminally insane yid gangster…what an absurd buffoon. The WEF, where’s a giant thermonuclear blast to incinerate the lot of them when we really need one?
Russia knows it, China knows it, PDJT knows it, looks Mark Rutte knows it too. ALL they have to do is wait for the inevitable. When the 90-degree crustal shift takes place, then equatorial Greenland automatically turns into American territory. America, Canada, Mexico and Greenland become the future American Power Centre. Alas, there won’t be any future military power centre in Europe because Europe has not enough elevation, turning it into a number of small isolated islands for a long time. End of NATO. Commander DJTrump and his international coalition is just securing the future stability of America (and the World) with these global preemptive strikes. So sad many of the authors here suffer from TDS missing all the humor of the Comedian in Chief .. They’re judgemental minds occupied with watching ‘The Greatest Movie Ever Produced’, by the USSOC, who’s symbol: ‘the Tip of the Spear”, is the Coalition Commander’s handsign.
https://t.me/rattletrap1776/20957
The Trump chump and Euro-morons who bow to him will by default ensure, if they don’t blow the world up first, that we the people in the west will get a better system of political rule. Because if they say at election time let’s fight Russia, or let’s stop China, they’ll get booed off the stage. It will be like the long-absent trickle down effect, this time a political trickle down, where working with successful countries who would rather trade than conquer is beneficial to all including the elitists. They might not make vast fortunes, but they won’t lose all in a nuclear war either. Then we get the economic trickle down effect as trade, jobs and better living standards reach us all.
Look how big China is and how big its population is, yet it has been able to take massive public projects abroad in a win-win situation for itself and the countries it works with. So-called free market capitalism only ends up working for those who control it, making them multi-millionaires, billionaires and now perhaps even trillionaires are next. While the vast mass of people go poorer. State-controlled capitalism or a socio-economic model is best. We had all that post-war up until the 1970s after which Thatcher and Reagan handed it over, in time, cheap, to rogues and thieves.
So he’s not taking Greenland by force, and it was all bullshit of mass distraction to get the deal he wanted all along? Who knew?! Zero immi-vaders?! Gubmint ‘workers’ actually working?! (ESPECIALLY ICE) !
DJT, kicking ass and taking names!!!
All the map makers of the world should be looking forward to this geophysical & political reorganization of the world’s land masses, which intention is the stabilization of nationhood.
There’s just too much to list! Suing J P Morgan for five bil? Newsom invited himself for his own putdown? (better luck, next time fly commercial) Bibi and the beanie boys are still not happy? He’s got half the world thinking he’s crazy? (Macron, Starmer, Merz, you can keep em ALL)! Crazy like a fox maybe…
Ironically, in geological terms, Greenland does indeed belong to North America.
“drumpf just today returned from Davos like a beaten dog with his tail between his legs / will his satanic overlords now say to his walking carcas now drumpf dummy boy after Caracas you push the WWIII button….? / Also Sprach Professor Gimme-a-Breaksky”
https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-government-from-hell/#new_comments
365. gj comment ping pong January 22, 2026 at 5:03 pm GMT • 10.6 hours ago • 400 Words ↑
@Monte Cristo
Trump The Game, 1989 note his nose at 0.09 – 0.11 & when he sits on his desk at 0.16 -0.19/ with this
the y-tube txt : “Featuring a young Donald Trump. A board game released in 1989 by Milton Bradley. Hype did not meet expectations, only 800,000 units sold out of an estimated 2 million.”
drumpf crypto (fake) j. or not / this trailer of 1989 confirms imv the answer of the aforementioned j. database & his own statement to the j. newspaper in July 2015 : I have been supporter of…..since the day I was born like my dad Fred……he now is waiting to build his casinos & hotels in the Gaza Riviera…..supported by his chabad buddy Mileikovsky aka netanyaWhodid911…..don’t forget that while 40 million Us citizens are now cut off their snap etc. (incl. millions of kids/ while drumpf gave 40 billion to that other chabad (nose jobbed) buddy Milei…….very maga indeed….
M.kovsky did not need a nose job but in the other 2 cases : ‘nose job macht frei’….I prefer the old FED guy whats his name again…..Allan Greenspan & he was straight to the point about the FED in a short slice of an interview…we print the money & the govt. has not a nano iota say in it….
How many US citizens know this & know they have to pay taxes to pay for the interest the j.bankers charge over the money they print & “give”= loan to the US govt. + the loan itself…..debt & death are 2 sides of the same coin….
drumpf is a silly diablo paedo 🎯 poupee on the knee of his j. bankers ventriloquists / the problems between the present FED ceo & drumpf is only Kabuki….could be that drumpf is already so far gone that he does not even know about it…some doctors give him only max 6 months….
drumpf just today returned from Davos like a beaten dog with his tail between his legs / will his satanic overlords now say to his walking carcas now drumpf dummy boy after Caracas you push the WWIII button….? / Also Sprach Professor Gimme-a-Breaksky
Anyway every body anywhere h.a.n.d. have a nice day…
🎯Auch teenage boys …..
((( The child-sex settlements might explain Trump’s reluctance to disclose his tax returns, WMR reports https://en.paperblog.com/donald-trump-has-paid-about-30-million-to-settle-child-sex-complaints-including-a-2012-incident-at-albemarle-estate-in-charlottesville-virginia-1989807/ and documents indicate our “president” is a deeply disturbed individual….
drumpf was designated with a psychiatric disorder referenced in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5). The referenced disorder is “Pedophilic Disorder (F65.4). )))
CIA O
Trump The Game 1989 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeECRcXVOvc&t=1s
Important circumstantial P.O.E. piece of evidence …forgotten by attorney Edgar Allen to deposit to the Court & Jury / je m’excuse 1008 mille- et- huit fois / Your Honour….
( mc michael cohen is back in the talmud- tanya- dog- cage of drumpf….licking the latters damaged rectum / Your Honour)
William Sascha Riley who as 12 year old in the mid 80’s was sexually abused by drumpf describes drumpf as extremely sadistic/ see the pics of drumpfs visage in the trailer above / indeed a candyman with a hooked crooked nose/ his original face / Your Honour & Honourable members of the Jury….
14 January https://news24online.com/world/who-is-sasha-riley-and-whats-behind-viral-testimony-audio-of-alleged-epstein-survivor/711215/
Content of the viral recordings/ The material includes six audio recordings, claimed to be in the publisher’s possession, with some copies After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field with abused youth and adolescents for more than a quarter century.reportedly shared with law enforcement & ‘trusted contacts’ in several countries.
The testimony reportedly describes: Trafficking of children under 13/ Alleged rape, torture and killings
Coerced participation in child pornography/ The death of a child during a ‘snuff film’ Alleged involvement of the drumpf/Epstein network…..
12 January https://radicalleftscum.substack.com/p/5-chilling-revelations-from-a-survivor ‘Sascha is one of the key survivors whose testimony has blown the Epstein investigation open.’
https://www.threads.com/tag/mary-lynn-riley-william-riley
18 January https://anondogood.substack.com/p/who-is-william-sascha-riley-really/comments ‘This is a place not a place to necessarily discredit William Sascha Riley is, but a place to tell who he really is and if his allegations hold any truth. Again, we need to create a community of verifiable information, not ideas and theories…..” counter sounds from the diablo paedo numero uno drumpf camp…..
Showing a pic of older Sascha Riley with his adopted father William Riley – pilot of Epstein plane Lolita express to the island – who abused him / pìc taken in 2009 by the author of this substack…
comments/ ” How very possible it is that Maga will do all in their power to discredit Sascha. And discredit the interviewer who stated documented proof is coming at the end of the month. Why not discredit the persona who refuses to release the files? That’s what doesn’t add up.”
” Acc. to the Epstein Files Transparency Act signed by drumpf on 19 November/ 100% of the non-redacted files were supposed to have been released by 19 December 2025 🎯 drumpf is desperately doing everything 🩸he can ✂️ to avoid following the act he signed.”
((( 18 January https://jameshfetzer.org/2026/01/joachim-hagopian-sascha-riley-the-final-stake-in-trumps-pedo-coffin-or-is-it-ass/ Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate, former Army officer and author of “Don’t Let the Bastards Getcha Down” exposing a faulty US military leadership system based on ticket punching up the seniority ladder….. After the military, Hagopian earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology & worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field with abused youth and adolescents for more than a quarter century )))
Anyway every body anywhere
h.a.n.d. have a nice day
CIA O