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Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« on: January 16, 2026, 11:31:29 am »
Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland

Updated 10:09 AM CST, January 16, 2026


COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — President Donald Trump suggested Friday that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland, a message that came as a Congressional delegation met Danish and Greenlandic lawmakers in Copenhagen and sought to lower tensions.

Trump for months has insisted that the U.S. should control Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, and said earlier this week that anything less than the Arctic island being in U.S. hands would be “unacceptable.”

“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland,” he said Friday, without providing details. “We need Greenland for national security.”

He had not previously mentioned using tariffs to try to force the issue.

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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2026, 11:33:13 am »
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2026, 11:34:04 am »
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2026, 12:22:54 pm »
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2026, 12:39:21 pm »
Random thought ...

Is there a provision in the NATO Charter for one NATO member attacking another NATO member?

Could Denmark invoke NATO's Article 5 for defense of Greenland from US aggression?
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2026, 02:13:00 pm »
Please just stop with the Greenland stuff, m'kay, Don?
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2026, 02:13:42 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 16, 2026, 02:13:00 pm
Please just stop with the Greenland stuff, m'kay, Don?

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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2026, 02:15:09 pm »
We've gone from Venezuela, to Iran, to chaos in MN,  and now Trump wants to start shit in Greenland. Let's just let the dust settle for a while!
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2026, 02:17:03 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on January 16, 2026, 02:15:09 pm
We've gone from Venezuela, to Iran, to chaos in MN,  and now Trump wants to start shit in Greenland. Let's just let the dust settle for a while!
Yeah, I'd like to see at least one problem solved.
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2026, 02:35:48 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on January 16, 2026, 02:15:09 pm
We've gone from Venezuela, to Iran, to chaos in MN,  and now Trump wants to start shit in Greenland. Let's just let the dust settle for a while!

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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2026, 02:38:00 pm »
What Epstein files?

What FY2026 budget?

What impending Government shutdown?

What $4,600/oz gold?

What $90/oz silver?

Unless there is a mushroom cloud on the horizon, the squirrels and I are okay.  It only hurts when you try to think about things as a responsible, reasonable, logical adult.  No thinking, no pain.

Sooner or later, the billionaire oligarchs that run this country might try to change things for the better ... or run off to the French Riviera with their billion$ in Swiss banks.
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2026, 02:47:13 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on January 16, 2026, 02:15:09 pm
We've gone from Venezuela, to Iran, to chaos in MN,  and now Trump wants to start shit in Greenland. Let's just let the dust settle for a while!

BTW, Trump is not "starting shit in Greenland".  He's ending the shit that's been going on since 1910 --- and he's ending it to the benefit of the United States and the Western Hemisphere.

Sorry, not sorry if this offends you or wears you out.
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2026, 02:50:15 pm »
Damn that, President Taft.

Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on January 16, 2026, 02:47:13 pm
BTW, Trump is not "starting shit in Greenland".  He's ending the shit that's been going on since 1910 --- and he's ending it to the benefit of the United States and the Western Hemisphere.

Sorry, not sorry if this offends you or wears you out.
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2026, 02:54:41 pm »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on January 16, 2026, 02:50:15 pm
Damn that, President Taft.

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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2026, 04:44:46 pm »
Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on January 16, 2026, 02:47:13 pm
BTW, Trump is not "starting shit in Greenland".  He's ending the shit that's been going on since 1910 --- and he's ending it to the benefit of the United States and the Western Hemisphere.

Sorry, not sorry if this offends you or wears you out.

:bigsilly:

No, he’s pretty much starting shit.  That cognitive dissonance must be a real beeotch. 
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2026, 06:27:07 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 16, 2026, 02:13:00 pm
Please just stop with the Greenland stuff, m'kay, Don?

It strikes me that this threat might just tip the balance in the SCOTUS against any generous interpretation of the emergency powers Trump is using to justify tariffs by executive fiat.  That Greenland remains an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Denmark, one of our allies, does not constitute a national emergency.  The case for a trade deficit with hostile power (the PRC) being an emergency was better.
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2026, 06:31:25 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 16, 2026, 02:13:00 pm
Please just stop with the Greenland stuff, m'kay, Don?

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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2026, 07:07:27 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 16, 2026, 02:13:00 pm
Please just stop with the Greenland stuff, m'kay, Don?

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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2026, 07:12:19 pm »
So insightful.
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Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on January 16, 2026, 07:13:12 pm
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« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2026, 07:19:02 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 16, 2026, 07:15:38 pm
What the hell bug has gotten up your butt? Leave me alone.

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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #23 on: January 16, 2026, 07:32:56 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on January 16, 2026, 02:15:09 pm
We've gone from Venezuela, to Iran, to chaos in MN,  and now Trump wants to start shit in Greenland. Let's just let the dust settle for a while!

I swear to God Trump is a Dem plant.

Either that or he is just so used to his complete sole control of his giant corporation, total tyrant and not having everyone critiquing your every move (such as foreign nations), he doesn’t know that it IS different handling a country amongst the big pantheon of nations.  Never mind he’s old and set in his ways.  AND, lame duck behavior.  Bad enough before, but worse now.
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #24 on: January 16, 2026, 08:36:49 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 16, 2026, 07:15:38 pm
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Wrong hole she has A yeast infection. 
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #25 on: January 17, 2026, 08:26:53 am »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 16, 2026, 02:17:03 pm
Yeah, I'd like to see at least one problem solved.
And maybe a day or two to take a deep breath.
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Re: Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland
« Reply #26 on: January 17, 2026, 09:10:11 am »
Quote from: the OlLine Rebel on January 16, 2026, 07:32:56 pm
I swear to God Trump is a Dem plant.

He had a stroke, and what is left of his brain is shriveling up.  There will be moments of clarity, sure.  But fewer as time passes.
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