President Trump said Wednesday that he was calling off tariff threats that he had issued in an effort to secure American ownership of Greenland, saying he had reached a framework agreement with Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, over the future of the icy Danish territory.
The announcement on Mr. Trump’s social media network came hours after he told European leaders in Davos, Switzerland, that he would not settle for anything less than the United States taking ownership of Greenland — while rescinding a threat to invade it. Mr. Trump had promised dire economic and security consequences for Europe if he did not get his way.
Writing on Truth Social, Mr. Trump said Wednesday evening that he and Mr. Rutte had “formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region. This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America, and all NATO Nations.”
The president did not immediately give any details of that framework, and notably did not say that the United States would own Greenland, even when asked directly about ownership by a reporter in Davos soon after posting the announcement. Mr. Rutte and the leaders of Denmark did not release details either. NATO did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
And stock market goes back up after his friends bought in the dip.
…for now…
He’ll find someone and something else that make him threat with tariffs in 5…4…3…2…
Isn’t he pissed at Canada for pointing out he’s a fool?
He’s moreso pissed that Canada’s economy is failing and he isn’t responsible for it. (Yes the tarrifs hurt Canada’s economy too but their economy was already pretty fucked because for decades Canada’s economy was building and selling housing and not much else.)
You’re getting downvoted to hell but you’re not wrong. Our reliance on housing has fucked us to the point we need to change now, or we won’t make it. Canadians who have it don’t see the problem. Canadians who don’t, and can’t, see it more clearly every day. We have a NIMBY problem nationwide, and it’s no longer about backyards.
Part of why Canada is in this situation is refusal to acknowledge it and “kick the can down the road” policies. And it isn’t all on the feds, provinces and municipalities share a lot of blame as well. It certainly isn’t too late to change but we’d need to make the right choices.
Opening cities to denser development, transit, and walkability would increase housing supply, reduce transportation costs, and could improve our social spaces. This all could help reduce the rising extremist political division, the type of division where you can’t be friends with someone who votes differently and exclussively on that basis.
Agreed. Our provinces have a convenient autonomy that allows for destroying a province while blaming the Feds. Its a system that can work well with the right people, and get taken advantage of with the wrong ones. Division politics works. And its been working, but its not too late to stop.
Its the Canadian way to blame the prime Minister for things that are your premier’s responsibility/fault
Haha yep. Division politics at its finest. We have a good system, it just doesn’t account for the sociopaths who rise to the top.
Art of the Deal. It has been a pattern since day one. The fact that it has destabilized modern western society be damned if he gets to feel like he has the upper hand.
The NYT is still intent on portraying these as a sequence of reasoned policy positions, and not the aimless meanderings of dementia writ large on the world stage.
They been doing this since his first term. Basically translating his insane gibberish into things that sound like relatively reasonable statements. They would have whole articles about something he said without a single direct quote from him.
Yep I’m getting pretty sickened by what I hear on corpo media about this and other recent events. Sanewashing might be the term, but at the least they try to hash out reasonings and strategy and speculation like it’s Sunday Night Football instead of the full-blown fascist thrashing that it is. These news orgs stumbling over themselves to take more of the dollary dick, desperate to maintain the thin veneer of civility that has been cultivated by their owners over generations. Fools and cowards the lot of them.
Or the intentional actions of a person who understands that his insane ramblings can cause stock market drops and that walking back those insane ramblings will cause stock markets to recover, allowing him and his buddies to make more money.
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Taco Tuesday, just 1 day late
He doesn’t know what day it is.
Much like trash pickup, he’s a day late due to the holiday.
This was a distraction from Venezuela, which was a distraction from Epstein, which was a distraction from the fact we elected this guy twice.
Uh huh… What do you wanna bet he was told that every single American military base in the EU would be closed and off limits for US use if NATO was broken apart.
I would have paid anything to be a fly on the wall at that meeting.
Of course Trump will Roy Cohn it and boast the US came out triumphant and the sun shone brightly out the crack of his ass and it awed everyone in the EU that saw it…
pffft!
What did Rutte promise his daddy now?
Probably nothing. What could he promise?
Given Denmark and Greenland seem to not have any idea what he’s talking about, this is most likely Trump caving and still trying to get a “Victory!” headline.
Thats the vibe i get.
I think hes been told, emphatically that he doesn’t have any support for a military intervention, nor additional tariffs.
He’s spoken to NATO guy whos said “you dont have the cards” so the framework of a deal hes talking about is that the US can increase its deployment there (which it could’ve before) and call that a victory.
Not to sell off all their US bonds. Europe can tank the US economy any time they want.
It seems the Danish are wondering the same thing.
It is far more likely that the Danes selling a token number of US Treasurys as a shot across the bow soiled a number of handmade silk suits on Wall St, and someone was able to convey to the inner circle exactly what that fucking means, and that’s how we got Taco Wednesday. Note also last year how, when Japan started suggesting the idea of selling off Treasurys themselves, suddenly Japan’s tariff arrangement instantly improved.
And that’s only one part of what Europe could do. The anti-coercion instrument isn’t nicknamed “the bazooka” for nothing, and just because Europe has been our allies for 80 years doesn’t mean they are without means of both prevention and retaliation. It’s the orange excrescence’s fault for thinking nobody could do anything back, when that is the farthest fucking thing from the truth.
Honestly, having the rest of the western hemisphere unite in their loudest, strongest NO in tandem with Mark Carney clearly outlining a post-US-dominant world order built on fluid alliances is the best thing that could be happening to all of us right now, no matter where we live.
How many times has Daddy said something only to be proven a liar by someone else in the conversation?
Oh shit, who knew allied governments could have mutually beneficial defense agreements 😲😲😲😲😲😲
Trump ALWAYS repeats wharever he talked last told him. Just wait for him to talk again with whorever is behind the idea of the US owing Greenland and he’s going to be in it again
*pimpever
Someone like Rutte should whisper in his ear “Donald, our intelligence people are hearing rumors that they are moving to replace you soon with Vance and Miller. Just know that when that happens, we’ll grant you asylum in Europe.” And lean back and watch as he starts firing every one of his cronies.
Rutte is Trump’s most loyal ally and friend.
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What exactly can a Dutch politician promise in regards to selling someone else’s country?
At this point Rutte isn’t a Dutch politician, but the “leader” of NATO. Sadly
Until he talks to someone else. He’s just parroting the last thing someone said to him.
