{"id":56873,"date":"2026-01-17T11:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/trump-warns-of-tariffs-on-nations-not-backing-his-greenland-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:13:59","slug":"trump-warns-of-tariffs-on-nations-not-backing-his-greenland-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/trump-warns-of-tariffs-on-nations-not-backing-his-greenland-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump warns of tariffs on nations not backing his Greenland plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I may put a tariff on countries if they don&#8217;t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security,&#8221; Trump said at a White House event, without giving more details.<\/p>\n<p>Greenland has a self-governing government within the Kingdom of Denmark, with Copenhagen retaining authority over its defense and foreign policies. The United States maintains a military base on the island. Since returning to the White House in 2025, Trump has repeatedly expressed a strong desire to &#8220;obtain&#8221; Greenland by any means.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;fundamental disagreement&#8221; persists over the future of Greenland following a meeting of high-ranking officials from the United States, Denmark and Greenland on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and Greenlandic Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Besides wide-ranging tariff measures announced in 2025, the Trump administration has expanded the use or threatened to use tariff tools to curb the entry of fentanyl, in sanctions on Iran, a dispute over water rights with Mexico, and other non-traditional areas.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-100755\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/denmark_yiyemeje_guhagarara_bwuma_ikarwanya_umugambi_wa_trump_wo_.jpg\" alt=\"Greenland has a self-governing government within the Kingdom of Denmark, with Copenhagen retaining authority over its defense and foreign policies. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he may impose tariffs on countries that do not support his plan for the United States to &#8220;obtain&#8221; Greenland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000100754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000100754,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/denmark_yiyemeje_guhagarara_bwuma_ikarwanya_umugambi_wa_trump_wo_.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/denmark_yiyemeje_guhagarara_bwuma_ikarwanya_umugambi_wa_trump_wo_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/denmark_yiyemeje_guhagarara_bwuma_ikarwanya_umugambi_wa_trump_wo_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/denmark_yiyemeje_guhagarara_bwuma_ikarwanya_umugambi_wa_trump_wo_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/denmark_yiyemeje_guhagarara_bwuma_ikarwanya_umugambi_wa_trump_wo_.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/denmark_yiyemeje_guhagarara_bwuma_ikarwanya_umugambi_wa_trump_wo_.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000100754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56873"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56873"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}