{"id":321954,"date":"2026-01-22T06:45:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=321954"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:29:22","slug":"trump-claims-greenland-for-us-in-davos-speech-thats-our-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=321954","title":{"rendered":"Trump Claims Greenland For US in Davos Speech: ‘That\u2019s Our Territory\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nik Popli \u2013 TIME Jan 21, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Calling for \u201cimmediate negotiations\u201d with Denmark, Trump asserted that Greenland<\/a> was essential to American and global security, even as he insisted he would not use military force to obtain it\u2014his clearest effort yet to somewhat soften the threat behind a demand that has already unsettled NATO allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe probably won\u2019t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, where we would be, frankly, unstoppable,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut I won\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI don\u2019t have to use force. I don\u2019t want to use force. I won\u2019t use force. All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland.\u201d Yet the President made clear that he still envisioned full American ownership of the semiautonomous Danish territory, arguing that \u201cyou need the ownership to defend it\u201d and that \u201cyou can\u2019t defend it on a lease.\u201d<\/p>\n

“This enormous unsecured Island is actually part of North America, on the northern frontier of the Western Hemisphere,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThat’s our territory.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments underscored Trump\u2019s willingness to wield raw power and transactional threats<\/a> in pursuit of territorial and strategic gains\u2014even at the risk of tearing at alliances that have anchored Western security since World War II.<\/p>\n

While Trump insisted he did not intend to use force, he coupled that assurance with a thinly veiled warning: \u201cYou can say yes and we will be very appreciative, or you can say no, and we will remember.\u201d That combination of conciliation and coercion came up repeatedly throughout Trump\u2019s remarks. He boasted of forcing NATO members to increase defense spending, even as he questioned whether they would come to America\u2019s aid if the United States were attacked. He described Europe as dependent on American protection but insufficiently grateful for it. \u201cThe problem with NATO is that we\u2019ll be there for them 100%,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019m not sure that they\u2019d be there for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s 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\u2019s willingness to pressure allies as aggressively as rivals.<\/p>\n

Trump began his remarks focused on delivering a triumphant verdict on his first year back in office, calling it \u201cthe fastest and most dramatic economic turnaround in our country\u2019s history\u201d and claiming inflation had been \u201cdefeated,\u201d the border rendered \u201cvirtually impenetrable\u201d and growth set to surpass any previous benchmark. He contrasted his record with what he described as the \u201cnightmare of stagflation\u201d under former President Joe Biden whom he repeatedly derided as \u201cthe autopen.\u201d<\/p>\n

But what unfolded over the course of his lengthy speech was less a celebration of economic revival than a sweeping assertion of American dominance\u2014and of his own role as its chief architect\u2014over allies, adversaries and institutions alike.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe USA is the economic engine of the planet,\u201d Trump declared. \u201cAnd when America booms, the entire world booms.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout us, right now you’d all be speaking German and a little Japanese, perhaps,\u201d Trump said to the room full of billionaires, government officials, and diplomats.<\/p>\n

Trump warned that \u201ccertain places in Europe are not even recognizable anymore,\u201d blaming \u201cunchecked mass migration,\u201d environmental policies, and the outsourcing of heavy industry for what he called the continent\u2019s decline. He criticized Europe multiple times, even as many of its leaders sat in the audience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more windmills a country has,\u201d he said, \u201cthe more money that country loses.\u201d<\/p>\n

He urged other nations to \u201cfollow what we\u2019re doing\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Nowhere was that tension clearer than when Trump turned to Greenland. \u201cNo nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the United States,\u201d he said, recounting how American forces defended the island during World War II before returning it to Denmark, a decision he now questioned. \u201cHow ungrateful are they now?\u201d he added. At various points, Trump appeared to confuse Greenland with Iceland. \u201cIceland has already cost us a lot of money,\u201d he said, a reference to the stock market\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The President\u2019s 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 \u201crupture\u201d in the world order, declaring that the rules-based international system was eroding and that \u201cthe strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.\u201d French President Emmanuel Macron decried the use of coercion and tariffs to advance territorial ambitions, asserting that Europe would not accept the \u201claw of the strongest\u201d or be intimidated by \u201cbullies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump responded to their comments by singling out both leaders. He mocked Macron\u2019s sunglasses before recounting how he said he forced France\u2019s leader to narrow the gap between French and American drug prices by threatening sweeping tariffs. \u201cEmmanuel, you\u2019re going to do it, and you\u2019re going to do it fast,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200b\u201cCanada gets a lot of freebies from us,\u201d Trump said, adding that it \u201cshould be grateful\u201d to the United States. Referring directly to Carney\u2019s appearance at Davos, he said, \u201cI watched your Prime Minister yesterday. He wasn\u2019t so grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada lives because of the United States,\u201d Trump added. \u201cRemember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.\u201d<\/p>\n

The episodes served as a broader illustration of Trump\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

At Davos, such remarks landed with particular force. Halfway through the speech, a senior Western European official told TIME: \u201cWe can\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s speech also revisited long-standing grievances and disputed claims: that his 2020 election loss was \u201crigged,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

He touted a deal with Venezuela over oil production, took credit for wiping out Iran\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a lot of big things, all perfectly executed,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump tells European leaders in Davos that although he won\u2019t use force to resolve the dispute, Greenland is \u201cour territory\u201d. The trouble many European citizens will read Trump\u2019s speech and agree entirely with his criticism of their leaders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":321956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321955,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321954\/revisions\/321955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/321956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}