'We need Greenland': Trump repeats threat to annex Danish territory
- Publisher
- BBC News
- Published
- 2026-01-05
- Type
- news report
- Link
- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0zg974v1o
- Last checked
- 2026-10-26
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- reference only — we link and describe; we do not republish the text.
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Foreign Policy
Tariffs on allies for defending Denmark: how the Greenland crisis and the trade war broke Europe's trust in America
In January 2026 Trump put a 10 percent tariff on eight allies for backing Denmark over Greenland until markets fell; by spring 76 percent of Germans called the US untrustworthy and a Pew median of 85 percent of Europeans disapproved.