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Trump Backpedals

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22.01.2026

Greenland

Liz Wolfe | 1.22.2026 9:30 AM

Greenland proposal: On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced that he had reached a deal with European allies in NATO over his proposed acquisition of Greenland. He also withdrew his threat of increased tariffs, causing markets to rebound a bit.

Genuinely insane that we've just been doing this over and over for months pic.twitter.com/TQpvUbJdDO

— Dominic Pino (@DominicJPino) January 21, 2026

This comes on the heels of conversations in which NATO mulled the idea of giving the United States sovereignty over the land housing its military bases, though it's unclear whether that was the tentative framework or whether Trump refused those concessions in favor of full sovereignty over Greenland. The details of........

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