President Trump trashed European allies Tuesday and bared leaders’ personal textual content messages as he continues to aggressively pushing for a U.S. takeover of Greenland.
In a collection of wierd posts, Trump mocked European leaders and doubled down on his demand that they cave to his calls for for management of the Arctic island, which is a semi autonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark.
“Greenland is imperative for National and World Security. There can be no going back — On that, everyone agrees,” Trump wrote on his social media web site.
Folks stroll on a snow-covered avenue within the metropolis middle on January 19, 2026 in Nuuk, Greenland. (Sean Gallup/Getty Photos)
He posted a pretend picture of himself joined by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio planting an American flag on the icy island together with an indication: “Greenland — U.S. Territory Est. 2026.”
Trump additionally posted screenshots of personal messages despatched by French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO Secretary Basic Mark Rutte in a significant violation of the same old code of belief between world leaders.
Macron sounded a conciliatory be aware on most points in his message revealed by Trump, praising him for different world peacemaking efforts and alluring him to cease by in Paris for dinner.
However the French chief caught to his weapons on Greenland.
““I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland,” Macron stated, though he adopted it up with the plea: “Let us try to build great things.”
President Emmanuel Macron (left) greets British Prime Minister Keir Starmer upon his arrival on the Elysee Palace on Jan. sixth in Paris, France. (Tom Nicholson/Getty Photos)
Rutte was much more fawning to Trump in his personal “Dear Donald” missive, which Trump additionally posted on his social media web site.
“I am committed to finding a way forward on Greenland,” Rutte wrote. “I can’t wait to see you.”
It wasn’t clear precisely why Trump posted the messages though he could wish to undercut the narrative that Europeans are livid at Trump over his Greenland saber-rattling, particularly his new risk to impose larger tariffs on imports from international locations that oppose his plans.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – JANUARY 19: U.S. President Donald Trump (L) talks with reporters as U.S. Secretary of the Inside Doug Burgum (R) seems to be on at Palm Seaside Worldwide Airport on January 19, 2026 in West Palm Seaside, Florida. President Trump attended this 12 months’s faculty soccer nationwide championship sport at Arduous Rock Stadium between the Indiana Hoosiers and the Miami Hurricanes. (Photograph by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos)
European leaders have warned that an American seizure of Greenland may result in the collapse of the NATO alliance. The European Union is contemplating whether or not and the way to answer the tariffs risk.
The Greenland feud is casting an extended shadow over the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland. Trump was set to jet to Davos later Tuesday and can communicate there later within the week.
“We prefer respect to bullies,” Macron stated in his speech to the WEF Tuesday.
Trump even began a brand new beef with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer over Britain’s longtime plans handy over to Mauritius its onetime Indian Ocean colony of Diego Garcia, which hosts an American army base.
He discovered an unlikely technique to hyperlink that situation to Greenland.
“The UK giving away extremely important land is an act of GREAT STUPIDITY, and is another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired,” Trump stated.
