{"id":79810,"date":"2025-01-26T08:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T08:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=79810"},"modified":"2025-01-26T08:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T08:46:37","slug":"trump-is-serious-he-wants-greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/01\/26\/trump-is-serious-he-wants-greenland\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is serious: he wants Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the Guardian<\/a> and others have reported:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump had a fiery phone call with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen over his demands to buy Greenland, according to senior European officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As they note:<\/p>\n

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Speaking to the Financial Times, officials said that Trump, then still president-elect, spoke with Frederiksen for 45 minutes last week, during which he was described to be aggressive and confrontational about Frederiksen\u2019s refusal to sell Greenland to the US.<\/p>\n

The Financial Times reports that according to five current and former senior European officials who were briefed on the call, the conversation \u201cwas horrendous\u201d. One person said: \u201cHe was very firm. It was a cold shower. Before, it was hard to take it seriously. But I do think it is serious and potentially very dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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According to one former Danish official, the call was a \u201cvery tough conversation\u201d in which Trump \u201cthreatened specific measures against Denmark such as targeted tariffs\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why note this? There are three reasons.<\/p>\n

First, the USA does not need Greenland. That it wants to take territory is old-style fascist aggression and nothing else.<\/p>\n

Second, although this demand is very obviously insane, Trump is very obviously intent on pursuing it.<\/p>\n

Third, the same madness is apparent in the whole programme now being unrolled by Trump.<\/p>\n

We wanted to believe that Project 2025 was not real. It is. Trump wants to deliver it. The world is descending into chaos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the Guardian and others have reported: Donald Trump had a fiery phone call with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen over his demands to buy
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