{"id":197143,"date":"2026-01-17T00:11:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-threatens-tariffs-to-force-support-for-us-control-of-greenland-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:11:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:11:46","slug":"trump-threatens-tariffs-to-force-support-for-us-control-of-greenland-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-threatens-tariffs-to-force-support-for-us-control-of-greenland-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens tariffs to force support for US control of Greenland – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2013 President Donald Trump<\/a>, who called himself \u201cthe tariff king,\u201d threatened to impose tariffs<\/a> on other countries to pressure them into allowing the United States to annex Greenland<\/a>.
Trump has insisted on controlling Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of Denmark, by arguing that it is vital for minerals and Arctic shipping lanes. But his proposal set off an international firestorm<\/a>, with opposition from leaders in Denmark and Greenland, elsewhere in Europe and among bipartisan members of Congress<\/a>.
Trump\u2019s comments came at a health care event at the White House, where he trumpeted how the threat of tariffs forced other developed countries to accept higher drug prices so U.S. prices could come down.
\u201cI may do that for Greenland, too,\u201d Trump said Jan. 16. \u201cI may put a tariff on countries if they don\u2019t go along with Greenland because we need Greenland for national security. I may do that.\u201d
He didn\u2019t elaborate on how much the tariffs would be or which countries he would impose them on. But tariffs he has already imposed led to a temporarily halt in trade with China and pressured other countries to open their doors to more trade and companies to invest more in U.S. factories.
The Supreme Court could rule at any time<\/a> on the legitimacy of tariffs that Trump imposed unilaterally around the world that have raised hundreds of billions of dollars from the taxes on imports from abroad.
\u201cI\u2019m the tariff king and the tariff king has done a great job,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI hope we win the Supreme Court<\/a> case because if we don\u2019t, it\u2019d be a shame for our country.\u201d
Trump told reporters later, as he left the White House, that he is talking with NATO about his interest in controlling Greenland. He has refused to rule out a military intervention despite the U.S. and Denmark being allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a group created for members to jointly defend each other.
\u201cNATO has been dealing with us on Greenland,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe need Greenland for national security very badly. If we don\u2019t have it, we have a big hole in national security.\u201d
Denmark’s top diplomat met Jan. 14 with U.S.\u00a0Vice President JD Vance<\/a>\u00a0and Secretary of State Marco Rubio but said the allied nations were at an impasse. Officials from both countries are expected to meet again every few weeks to continue negotiations.
\u201cWe didn\u2019t manage to change the American position,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen said. “It\u2019s clear that the president has this wish of conquering over Greenland. We made it very, very clear that this is not in the interest of the kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2013 President Donald Trump, who called himself \u201cthe tariff king,\u201d threatened to impose tariffs on other countries to pressure them into allowing the United States to annex Greenland.Trump has insisted on controlling Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of Denmark, by arguing that it is vital for minerals and Arctic shipping lanes. But his proposal set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-197143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}