Source: SFGate
“President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he was canceling his planned tariff on [American buyers of goods from] U.S. allies in Europe over US control of Greenland after he and the leader of NATO agreed to a ‘framework of a future deal’ on Arctic security. The abrupt about-face emerged hours after Trump had insisted that he wants to ‘get Greenland, including right, title and ownership,’ but said he would not use force to do so while deriding European allies and vowing that NATO should not try to block U.S. expansionism. In an extraordinary [senile rant] at the World Economic Forum, the president said he was asking for territory that was ‘cold and poorly located.’ … ‘We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, where we would be frankly unstoppable. But I won’t do that, OK?’ Trump said, later adding, ‘I don’t have to’ and ‘I don’t want to use force.'” (01/21/25)