In this second term, however, Trump intentionally chose staff who uncritically support his every whim. Trump and top aide Stephen Miller have openly pushed a might-makes-right foreign policy that undoes decades of the post-World War II order that at least attempted to establish international rules and laws.

Trump offered his view on that earlier Wednesday in a speech to the world leaders and business executives gathered in Davos, Switzerland, at the annual World Economic Forum. “Then after the war, which we won. We won it big. Without us right now, you’d all be speaking German and little Japanese, perhaps,” he said. “After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it. But we gave it back. But how ungrateful are they now?”

Trump began mentioning Greenland again after winning the 2024 election and in the first weeks after taking office, typically in tandem with wanting to retake the Panama Canal. The chatter increased as Vice President JD Vance planned a trip to Greenland in March — but the trip itself deflated concerns when Vance was unable to arrange substantive meetings with local officials.

The whole issue disappeared as Trump turned his attention to Iran and then Venezuela, and resurfaced after that operation successfully captured that country’s dictator and brought him back to the United States on drug trafficking charges. On Jan. 6, he told The New York Times, “we are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not,” setting off the two-week crisis that threatened to destroy NATO.

While Trump had never specifically said he would use military force to seize Greenland, he had repeatedly refused to rule it out. He finally ruled out using the military in a speech upon arrival in Davos after flying overnight from Washington.

The backing-away from the tariffs came after a one-on-one meeting hours later with NATO’s Rutte, the one European leader who continues using flattery and praise to persuade Trump. That had been the consensus approach among European officials after Trump retook office a year ago, but many have abandoned it after it failed to keep Trump from ending U.S. military assistance to Ukraine, which was invaded by Russia four years ago.

French president Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and others attending Davos have been blunt in their criticism of Trump’s policies and particularly his attempt to grab Greenland.

In his announcement, Trump said the agreement with NATO will help the U.S. build a massive missile defense shield for the entire United States but offered no details as to how that would work. It is also unclear what a new agreement would offer the United States that it cannot already do under a 1951 treaty with Denmark about U.S. military installations there.

>Denmark and nato say Greenland isn’t for sale and there will be no negotiations
>tariffs threatened
>ok let’s negotiate
I swear…

>>1480178
>This is the cope by Russia given trump's big 'deal' was getting what was currently already agreed too.

>>1480106
Every defeat is actually a victory!

>>1480179
>everything I don’t like is Russia
You shills need new material. Just shouting out memes doesn’t work on the handful of real anons still hanging around.

>>1480106
I bet they made a 'new deal' which is functionally identical to the pre-existing agreement. He's done that before, because he's an illiterate idiot.

>>1480185
You think Putin slowed down his Russian troll farm after all the success he has had turning Americans against each other? Half of all traffic on the internet is bots now. Just bots spreading misinformation and trying to drum up engagement.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/bots-now-account-for-over-half-of-all-internet-traffic

But keep trying to deny it. You fucking Russian troll bot. Beep boops.

>>1480178
You have it backwards. There have already been bases and American projects on Greenland. Had Trump simply approached it normally in the first place these negotiations could have happened already. Instead, Trump acted like a boorish asshole bully do Denmark literally told him to fuck off. Now he's going back to regular negotiations but trying to spin it like some kind of win. He's an idiot.

>>1480189
If you think it's Putin, not Trump turning Americans against each other you're a fool. Unless your take is that being best buddies as they are, Trump is taking notes from on how to make life miserable enough that people are busy arguing with each other to bother with corruption.

>>1480191
Nah. EU, NATO and Denmark were always going to throw their little tantrum, no matter how nice President Trump played.

>>1480178
Unironically the art of the deal.
>we want [ridiculous thing]
>fuck off, no we aren't selling
>do it or we'll do [dangerous thing]
>reeeeee!
>alright, how about we settle on [thing I alway wanted]
>alright fine here you go

>>1480263
The thing he always wanted was Greenland you retard. We didn't have to do this immensely damaging song and dance just to ask if we could potentially put missile programs there.

Both Denmark & Greenland have said there hasn't been any deal made
The NATO head doesn't decide anything regarding Denmark/Greenland

Nah, Trump was always going to TACO and throw a tantrum, no matter how EU, NATO and Denmark were always going to throw a party in celebration of a weak orange subhuman folding like a lawn chair while pointing & laughing at him and his weaksauce little cultists such as you, 1480258
MAGA and their orange god: the laughingstock of the world

>>1480263
the US has missile and military programs everywhere. he didn't need to do all of this just for that. this isn't about what he got, this is about power and control of minerals + oil. he's after canada and venezuela for oil as well.

>>1480258
They never threw tantrums when other deals were made. The only reason there is any tension to start with is that Trump is acting incredibly boorish and unprofessional. Everyone else (minus Macron lol) is conducting themselves as heads of state taking their positions and responsibilities seriously, but Trump is still acting as if he's on a sleazy reality show and what's more to the point seems to think he's hosting. In a very short time he has all but destroyed all the good will and trust America built over the last 80 years. I know most of you scoff like that's no big deal, but those who do are incredibly foolish.

>>1480266
>immensely damaging
Are you a child? The EU + Canada shits on us all the time. They've hated us for decades.

https://www.history.com/articles/us-virgin-islands-denmark-purchase
>The U.S. was a larger imperial power now, with a greater interest in expanding. It had also set its sights on building the Panama Canal, and this made it even more interested in purchasing St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix in order to secure the future canal’s route. Again, another secretary of state (this time John Hay) negotiated a treaty with Denmark. The Senate ratified the treaty in 1902, but this time, the Danish parliament rejected it.
>In 1915, the fear of German takeover motivated the U.S. to make another try for the islands. Especially after the sinking of the Lusitania, President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of State Robert Lansing feared that Germany might annex Denmark and launch more attacks from the Danish West Indies. Danish leaders resisted ceding the islands and their majority-black inhabitants to the racially-segregated United States.
>Angry at this, Lansing insinuated that if Denmark didn’t sell the U.S. the islands, it just might go and seize them to prevent Germany for getting to them. It was a bullying tactic, and it worked.
>Eager to prevent a U.S. military attack (Denmark was currently a neutral party in World War I), Denmark negotiated a treaty with the U.S. that President Wilson signed on January 16, 1917. On March 31, 1917, Denmark formally transferred governance over the islands to the U.S., and the U.S. reciprocated by paying Denmark $25 million in gold coin.

>>1480294
It's been a while since we've seen someone openly call for the end of US hegemony and its place in the global theater directly to the president's face.
It being followed by a bunch of foreign divestment form the United States is actually telling of what the future's going to be because the old man keeps shitting himself

>>1480263
Migatards are so fucking pathetic lol

>>1480393
>Source: Tu'Mor Wiks

>>1480294
Random people shitting on Americans over Facebook and Twitter doesn’t justify threatening leaders of allied countries

>>1480287
>>1480393
lol. I can remember when Trump suggested the EU not be so dependent on Russian oil Merkel laughed in his face. Then Russia invaded Ukraine.

I remember last week all the yuropoors digging in their heels and daring Trump to invade.

The reality is Western Eruope can't do a fucking thing to disrupt the US hegemony hence the coping and seething.

>>1480466
Trump never threatened to use military force but go off kween

>>1480469
Saying “by any means necessary” and trying to economically blackmail people is still threatening.
I honestly can’t think of anything different I would be doing if I wanted to end the US’s reputation and push the world away from the dollar

>>1480106
That's my man Rutte

>>1480471
He never actually said those words. You were duped by the media.

>>1480477
Next you'll say Trump didn't call Nazis and white supremacists very fine people
Or claim he didn't really call dead veterans suckers and losers

>>1480481
Post source of him saying "by any means necessary." He never said it.

>>1480263
But he got nothing.,
Trump never gets anything from these negotiations.
The only way this could be what he wanted is if his goal was to destroy american credibility.

>>1480258
You're retarded.

>>1480483
Notice how no one could provide source. Eurokeks fabricating stories to be mad about.

>>1480272
To me, this is the interesting thing. The Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, with whom Trump talked, has absolutely no say over Greenland's sovereignty. It seems like negotiations went like this:
>Trump: "I WANT GREENLAND"
The Kingdom of Denmark: "No. Fuck off."
>Trump: "I WANT TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER"
Rutte: "I'm the manager. Er, here's a voucher for a complimentary, er, 'framework'"
>Trump:*triumphantly shows framework-voucher to press*

>>1480537
He didn't get it at all lmao. It's all rumors. None of it was ever confirmed beyond Trump saying he had a "framework of a deal coming in two weeks"

>>1480537
Davos is an alpine resort town in Switzerland and a talking shop for the vile neoliberals of the The World Economic Forum. It doesn't give greenlights. That's not a thing.

>>1480542
>I was being succinct.
You were being inaccurate.
>They told him that no one is going to stop him
source?
>I don't know if they told him directly or indirectly, publicly or privately
oh, no source
>but Greenland is a go, buckle up buckeroos
my arse

>>1480185
>Says this when putin DDOS'd an ICE transparency site for trump.
It's afraid

>>1480185
>You shills need new material
Their handlers aren't willing to pay for any new material for them

>>1480589
If that EU member immigration activist running the site said it then...

>>1480106
I mean. Invasion was never on the table.
Congress was never going to let him do it.

>a talk about idea for a future framework for future negotiations for a deal about greenland
>neither greenland or denmark were oart of these talks
face it, Trump tacoed again. NATO has no power to force it's members to cede sovereign territory.
Mark Ruttevwas just nice and gave the orange retard something to say to trick his retarded cult into thinking they won something

>>1480599
>Republicans accepting help from Putin
Good old treason.

>>1480106
its like you seen this guy do this for decades, and you still think he is folding

ffs, just read his fucking book
this is just pathetic at this point

>>1480803
>Doesn't get greenland
>Rapidly becoming clear his "concepts" of a deal were just shit NATO's head told him to make him stop throwing a hissy fit at the WEF
>Embarrassed both himself and the country
>"A-Art of the deal!"

>>1480826
Throwing things at the wall is a legitimate strategy especially when failures are inexpensive and successes pay off.

>>1480947
In this case the failure has severely harmed any chance at future successes along with creating long term reputational damage, and the "success" is fucking nothing. You cannot run a country like a business where worst case you leave with a golden parachute.

>>1480947
So its not a legitimate strategy for Trump?
He's exploding the debt again and still fucking up the economy

>>1480953
>Dems
You misspelled Reps, see >>1480349
Imagine blowing the carefully accumulated GOP powerbase built over 30 years for an orange retard who wastes it enriching himself and his donors, lmao

>>1480960
Way to admit the right is literally just a fucking scam. Shame that by being so greedy, ironically you've convinced more people than ever to vote left because the right decided to leave them out to dry.

>>1480957
The last thing Republicans needed was more Mitt Romneys and John McCains
There is a reason Trump won and they lost

>>1480967
Yeah and what will they have without the Trump cult of personality? I imagine a schism on par with the fucking Reformation over who is Trump's successor.

>>1480178
>sale
how is this even a discussion? I swear Trump is so incompetent it's not even funny. Denmark has no legal grounds to sell Greenland, even if they wanted to. Trump could threaten dropping nukes on Copenhagen and they still wouldn't sell it.
It's like asking the UK to buy Canada or Australia from them

>>1480971
Is that what happened with Ronald Reagan and HW Bush?
Do you think that will happen with Donald Trump and JD Vance?

>>1480826
Don't forget what made him fold was the EU was preparing to tear up their trade deal with US and Macron saying the Anti-Coercion Instrument was on the table, which would have completely looked the US out of the European market fucking the US economy.
And they didn't even get into the true nuclear option of liquidating their holdings of US debt which would instantly cause the US economy to go into a depression.

EU had trump by the balls and that's why he caved hard.

>>1480996
They didn't have anywhere near as much of a cult as Trump does.

>>1481063
Post trump votes were just votes against the DNC.

>>1481063
I do think there was a larger cult around Reagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_Democrat
Did you ever hear of a Trump Democrat? A democrat who would vote blue but they love Trump so much they had to vote for him instead?

>>1481095
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama%E2%80%93Trump_voters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Democrats_who_opposed_the_Hillary_Clinton_2016_presidential_campaign#Democrats_for_Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanders%E2%80%93Trump_voters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Hinkle#MAGA_communism

>>1481124
I heard about bernie voters for Trump but didn't think they had a wiki, and I never heard of Obama Trump voters. Thanks!

>>1481126
god you're esl

>>1481132
I did not think they had a wikipedia entry.
Sorry for the contractions, pissant.

>its a protection racket
>there's a reason why Trump lost in his own backyard late last year
>Republicans voting for a Democrat mayor in Miami
>Republicans becoming sane in Indiana
Nice GOP, MAGAts.
Shame if something wrere to happen to it.