Greenland ‘is very important for US, but not important for Denmark’, Trump says at Nato meeting – Europe live
US president says he is not happy with Nato and tells officials to ‘cut all trade with Spain’ Trump renews call for US to take over Greenland as he arrives for Nato summit And that ends their short briefing, with Trump saying he will be back later, and Rutte desperately throwing in that he will also do a press conference if anyone is interested in it please. Trump also heaps praise on Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , praising the Turkish military might, and, amusingly, out of nowhere praises Chin
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04.20 EDTGreenland 'is very important for US, but not important for Denmark,' Trump saysRutte says he understands Trump’s frustrations, but insists these are “isolated” cases, with many European countries helping out. He very softly pushes back on some specific countries that Trump named earlier, including Germany and France.Trump comes back with pointed criticism of the UK which “would not let us use the island for two weeks,” and Italy being “very bad.”But Rutte says that Trump “even got Spain to pay 2%.”On Greenland, Rutte says the pair agreed at Davos to increase US military presence there, and he pledges to “make sure that deal is step by step being implemented.”But this only triggers Trump to go again and say Greenland is “very important for the US, but it’s not important for…
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