Trump says ‘you’ll find out’ when asked how far he’ll go to take Greenland
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Trump has repeatedly refused to rule out military action to take over Greenland, a move that polls suggest a large majority of Americans do not support.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday the world will soon “find out” how far he’ll go to acquire Greenland as European leaders vowed to respond to his territorial threats and warned of a rupture to the western alliance.
“How far are you willing to go to acquire Greenland?” a reporter asked Trump at a White House press briefing marking his first year in office.
“You’ll find out,” Trump replied, without elaborating further.
Trump spoke before travelling to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said he has “a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland” with European officials. He’s scheduled to address the forum on Wednesday.
“I think things are going to work out pretty well actually,” he said about those meetings.
“I think that we will work something out where NATO is going to be very happy, and we’re going to be very happy, but we need it for security purposes. We need it for national security and even world security.”
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