President Trump has announced a new tariff regime against Germany, the UK, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands and Finland. The two-stage tariffs are in response to European leadership undermining U.S. strategic security discussions with Greenland.
PRESIDENT TRUMP – “We have subsidized Denmark, and all of the Countries of the European Union, and others, for many years by not charging them Tariffs, or any other forms of remuneration. Now, after Centuries, it is time for Denmark to give back — World Peace is at stake! China and Russia want Greenland, and there is not a thing that Denmark can do about it. They currently have two dogsleds as protection, one added recently.
Only the United States of America, under PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, can play in this game, and very successfully, at that! Nobody will touch this sacred piece of Land, especially since the National Security of the United States, and the World at large, is at stake.
On top of everything else, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland have journeyed to Greenland, for purposes unknown. This is a very dangerous situation for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Planet. These Countries, who are playing this very dangerous game, have put a level of risk in play that is not tenable or sustainable.”
“Therefore, it is imperative that, in order to protect Global Peace and Security, strong measures be taken so that this potentially perilous situation end quickly, and without question. Starting on February 1st, 2026, all of the above-mentioned Countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland), will be charged a 10% Tariff on any and all goods sent to the United States of America.
On June 1st, 2026, the Tariff will be increased to 25%. This Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland. The United States has been trying to do this transaction for over 150 years. Many Presidents have tried, and for good reason, but Denmark has always refused. Now, because of The Golden Dome, and Modern-Day Weapons Systems, both Offensive and Defensive, the need to ACQUIRE is especially important.
Hundreds of Billions of Dollars are currently being spent on Security Programs having to do with “The Dome,” including for the possible protection of Canada, and this very brilliant, but highly complex system can only work at its maximum potential and efficiency, because of angles, metes, and bounds, if this Land is included in it.
The United States of America is immediately open to negotiation with Denmark and/or any of these Countries that have put so much at risk, despite all that we have done for them, including maximum protection, over so many decades. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
My message to those who worry about President Trump committing us to something protracted that will eventually end in our being pulled into a European theater of conflict vis-a-vis Ukraine, is to quit worrying.
Trump is telling the EU to quit talking and start actively being responsible for their own security. In the background Trump has bigger plans.
Hans Mahncke has a solid take on the bigger picture:
“The notion that America wants Greenland for its raw materials is either insanely ignorant or just engagement bait. Extracting anything in the Arctic is prohibitively expensive, and often physically impossible, with extreme cold, thick ice, equipment that won’t function, and no roads, rail or ports to move anything once you have it.
The real reason America needs Greenland is its immense geostrategic military value, which should be obvious to anyone with a functioning brain, especially anyone who has ever looked at a map from above, with the North Pole at the center.
Sure, some tasks could be outsourced to NATO, but that alliance is on its last legs, burdened by too many countries with conflicting priorities, and has mainly served as a way for Europe to freeload on US security guarantees. Relying on it for American national security is reckless. It’s far smarter to cut out the endless middlemen and take direct control.” (source)
Mahncke is correct. On one side of the ice, you have North America. On the other side of the ice you have, well, the reason for President Trump to order dozens of icebreakers.
The position of Denmark and Greenland is pathetic. Denmark demands the USA protect the “territories of their kingdom” (their words) including Greenland, which they admit they “cannot do without the USA military.” However, they outright reject the notion the United States should gain something, anything, for providing that protection.
Stephen Miller just said the quiet part out loud about Greenland.
Denmark may claim ownership — but America is footing the bill, defending the territory, and staring down the next global battlefield.
MILLER: “Greenland is essential for America’s national security.”
“The new… pic.twitter.com/prZH9eJrFN
— Overton (@overton_news) January 17, 2026
As also noted by Jim Ferguson: “Ursula von der Leyen just went on camera and declared that Greenland “belongs to Denmark and NATO” — directly rebuking President Trump.
Let’s translate that. This isn’t about the Greenlandic people. This is about Brussels panicking because Trump is exposing the Arctic power game.
Greenland controls:
• the northern missile corridor
• Arctic shipping lanes
• and the gateway to North America
That makes it one of the most important strategic territories on Earth.
And Trump said the quiet part out loud: If the U.S. doesn’t secure it, China or Russia will.
Von der Leyen’s response wasn’t to protect the West, it was to protect EU control.
She wrapped it in pretty words about “NATO unity” — but what she really meant was: Brussels gets a veto over American security.
That’s what this is about.
Trump isn’t breaking the alliance. he’s breaking the illusion that unelected EU bureaucrats get to decide the future of the Arctic.
Greenland is not a Brussels bargaining chip; it is the northern shield of the United States, and for the first time in decades, America has a president willing to say it.
Ursula doesn’t hate Trump because he’s reckless, she hates him because he won’t let Europe freeload on American security while selling the future to Beijing.”
October, 2025: Finland is slightly smaller than Montana and wedged between Sweden and Russia. Finland, a nation of approximately 5 million people, has a security outlook shaped by its geography, a strategic position within the new NATO/Arctic strategy.
President Trump holds a bilateral discussion with Finnish President Alexander Stubb, as the two leaders’ complete terms for eleven icebreaker ships valued at $6.1 billion. Under terms of the deal, three of the ships will be built by Davie in Galveston, Texas, and four by Bollinger Shipyards in Houma, Louisiana.
Finland is the world leader in icebreaker ship building and will help teach U.S. ship building companies the latest advances in the technology. [SOURCE]
Stay Elevated:
December, 2025: Appearing on Fox News to discuss the Ukraine v Russia conflict, Finland President Alexander Stubb is questioned about the conflicting U.S. intelligence reports pushed by Reuters saying Russia will invade Europe, versus DNI Tulsi Gabbard saying Russia has no capability or intent to invade Europe.
President Stubb notes his agencies work closely with U.S. intelligence and in his view, Tulsi Gabbard is correct regarding President Vladimir Putin’s intention. [SOURCE]
President Trump is dancing through a geopolitical minefield, deconstructing numerous long-standing manipulative institutions along the way, while simultaneously keeping 100 domestic agenda plates spinning on sticks.
It is amazing to watch his navigation skills. Smile and enjoy this.
Europe’s troop deployments in Greenland:
France: 15 personnel
Germany: 13 personnel
Sweden: 3 personnel
Norway: 2 personnel
Finland: 2 personnel
United Kingdom: 1 personnel
Netherlands: 1 personnel pic.twitter.com/2ojgFZA23I
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) January 15, 2026
Sunday morning ramble:
1.) GOAL: Keep your people safe during a nuclear war. Question: Where do you want to house all your nukes knowing that the adversary would strike that location first to prevent their own reciprocal destruction? In a glacial wasteland, or a hundred miles from a population center? /BlackDumpling/status/2011513154808004701
2.) Just a thought, but wouldn’t
GreenTrumpland be an almost ideal place to store nuke waste? I realize the permafrost is something to deal with. Possible solutions are hiring the Yukon Gold diggers (!) or else blast certain areas with a couple of MOABs. This operation could be a potential revenue street for the natives as well (if they don’t take a buyout and stay). For example, places like Taiwan store all of their nuke waste on a tiny island called Lanyu just off their south east coast (local aboriginals hate it). If shipped to Trumplandia, they would pay a certain fee or commit to buying more long term treasuries (I seem to remember reading that many companies use the interest gained on their treasuries to buy their military equipment). Likewise, similar to the icebreakers, contracts can go out to other countries to build the ships needed to transport the waste and to build the infrastructure need. I think there is already some nuke waste up their from a plane crash years ago. That could be cleaned up too.3. Just FYI: The Brit’s naval base is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMNB_Clyde
(the one mentioned in the Netflix video that has been posted is made to tv)
video here: /BlackDumpling/status/2011051680859897920
4. I wonder if any extra minerals/materials such as nano-diamonds can be found in the area around where the meteor hit 12K years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas_impact_hypothesis
typos:
revenue street = revenue stream
many companies = many countries
Nuclear waste is something no one wants to talk about, but it does need to be dealt with.
Yucca Mountain in the wasteland of Nevada was completed with billions of dollars by US Govt for storing Nuclear waste of the entire USA instead of dangerous onsite storage at all Nuke plants. Barky shut it down completely to appease his get rich scheming buddies to switch to the disastrous Green New Energy sources that have proven to be nothing more suitable than additional sources and not a replacement for nuclear energy. Open it back up, it also had an energy power radioactive rods recycling site to recycle used radiation materials and make them more manageable than just storing at nuke sites as well. It was an effective, innovative plan that cost billions, yet Barky shut it down to enrich a few others at our expense.
“Nuclear waste? I’m on it! Say–is that a Donna Karan?”
Nuke waste. Let’s examine that phrase. Some of us are old enough to remember the ’80’s. Yucca Flats, glassification, 250,000 vs 500,000 year flood plains. But then that all disappeared.
Back to nuke waste. What that is is radioactive waste. Radioactive fuel that has had so much energy extracted that it cannot function as fuel anymore. It is depleted. It is uranium.
Shock, It’s Depleted Uranium!
That stuff the military uses and spreads all over the middle east. The stuff they started using, in mass quantities, just around the time they stopped talking about Nuke Waste.
So we don’t have nuclear waste issues, we have insufficiency of war issues.
Actually most nuclear fuel rods are far from being depleted uranium. At one time, petroleum seeping out of the ground was considered useless waste.. It’s wise to remember that when discussing nuclear waste and spent fuel rods.
Our nuke physicists find new uses for nuke waste every few years, and it is so small that we store all of it easily in a few shipping containers. We melt it in sand & stone to form a sort of radioactive obsidian, which prevents easy spread should the containers breach.
Some company recently discovered how to transmute a form of mercury into gold over about 17 years, by putting the mercury into the heart of a reactor & bombarding it with nuclear particles. It’s quite amazing stuff.
It’s called going Dutch for a reason….
Ditch the Dutch….
Parasites……
Exactly!
You don’t have to hard-sell it.
But I will, Gipper…
Threats from impecunious Euro NATO members have been publicly trumpeted that if President Trump doesn’t shut up, sit down, and resume his place in the global order, they will kick out all American military bases in Europe.
My gosh…
President Trump has shoved them all out of their safe places as US “protectorates”. He has shown that the balance of what’s left of their minds is asylum worthy.
He has well and truly caused them to expose that NATO’s core mission has become a front and a fraud.
And totally against America’s interests in every respect.
There….I’m done 😎 🇺🇸
Please throw all of our bases out of Europe, we all BEG you to do so immediately, while eating popcorn and watching what happens as a result of this blithering idiots blabber of EU Nations.
Well said, Betsy, well said!
Particularly “impecunious”!
But I like pecuns!
Oh you……😂
“Oh, please don’t throw me in that Brussels Patch, Brer Faux!”
If the briar patch fits 😉👍🏻
And that Betsy,is exactly what President Trump wants,
“Threats from impecunious Euro NATO members have been publicly trumpeted that if President Trump doesn’t shut up, sit down, and resume his place in the global order, they will kick out all American military bases in Europe.”
It is I think.
But would they do it?
Bluff, bluster, and hyperbolic venting.
I smell fear.
I know they all seem the same but I think the Dutch are from The Netherlands and Danes are from Denmark.
Germany removes it’s 15 undeswehr reconnaissance soldiers from Greenland.
Saturday they said they didn’t know how long they would be there. Sunday they said “mission accomplished”….so they are removing them from Greenland. Trump’s tweet came in between.
What was Germany’s mission?
To further embarrass itself as a world power?
Maybe they can borrow W’s banner to drape across the Brandenburg Gate.
It was considered to be a military reconnaissance exercise.
😂
so now it’s 24 EU troops,
plus the two dogsled teams and a musher?
this is getting funnier by the day.
we could just offer the 24 guys left there U.S. citizenship to defect,
and wipe out the whole EU expeditionary force in an hour!🤣
The whole thing now looks like an old Benny Hill skit.
A global laughingstock they are.
I hear the music!!!
Provide them with their own igloo and several wives as a bonus.
“On the 7th day of Trumpland, the NATO gave to me:
15 Frenchmen waving bye-bye
13 German Soldiers sledding
2 Finnish soldiers snowshoeing
2 Norwegian soldiers luging
1 Dutch soldier skating
1 British soldier freezing
and
a pair of old and very antique skis”
It is interesting to watch the Rino/uniparty react to President Trump digging in on American security controlled by America. And not the eunouchs or WEF crowd. Soon to be gone NE Rep Bacon – filing articles of impeachment.
Keep an eye on or pay attention to those in the GOPe uniparty who are against the Greenland strategy or ignoring Nato. Primary them if they aren’t already getting out.
Charlie Kirk did not like Don Bacon regardless of what Bacon said after Charlie was assassinated.
Bacon is getting out… to explore a run for POTUS.
Out of the frying pan and into the fired.
The problem is that the mainstream media isn’t telling Americans Trump’s strategy. They are creating resistance to Trump policies by portraying him as an unpredictable lunatic. The average American is intellectually lazy and don’t do their own research on issues affecting them.
As of this week, 92% of PDJT’s voters approve of what he is doing.
And he won an electoral majority barely a year ago.
America is behind this President. It’s what they voted for.
And the public opinion of the corporate media is the lowest in over a century.
Ignore the gaslighting. Most others are.
This is what Thune needs to hear shouted at him if necessary.
We are definitely over the target.
Their deployment lol. Who do they think they are fooling? There “leaders” are on X talking a big game.
While snorting coke for their intensity level. No wonder their balls are pretending to grow bigger.
The indigenous Greenlanders also have a gripe against Denmark from recent history.
Grok:
“Denmark oversaw a forced contraception program that involved the non-consensual insertion of IUDs (intrauterine devices) into thousands of Greenlandic women and girls, some as young as 12 years old, between the 1960s and 1991.
This was carried out by Danish health authorities while Denmark controlled Greenland’s healthcare system.”
THAT IS 30 FRIGGIN YEARS!
“The Spiral Case, also known as the “coil campaign”, refers to this widespread practice where over 4,500 women and girls—many from the Indigenous Inuit population—were fitted with IUDs without their knowledge or consent.
The program was part of a government-backed effort to control population growth and reduce public spending in Greenland, which was a Danish territory at the time.
In September 2025, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen formally apologized to the victims, calling the campaign “systematic discrimination” and acknowledging the physical and psychological harm inflicted.
An independent investigation confirmed the abuses, and 143 women, 138 of whom were minors at the time, filed a lawsuit seeking compensation.
In early 2026, Denmark agreed to provide individual payouts of 300,000 Danish kroner (about $46,000) to affected women, with applications opening in April…..”
Denmark’s Dirty Little Secret About Population Control in Greenland
https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/01/18/denmarks-dirty-little-secret-about-population-control-in-greenland-n4948433
As hard as it is for some to swallow, money talks. Best way to stop fraud is dry up the flow of money. Best way to hit a politician/leader is to limit his ability to gain power through money or money through power.
Breitbart is now reporting that the EU’s “hardball” tactics will include boycotting the World Cup and holding up the ratification of the their trade deal with the US. This will only benefit us in the long term by leading to more jobs in our own self-supporting manufacturing sector in this country. We can not allow either enemies, nor frenemies to have control over our supply of necessary goods (such as medical supplies) … and they can shove their unnecessary goods up their jumper!
There is no way that the EU can dodge the inevitable outcome now that POTUS has dug his heels in, yet they are inviting DJT to escalate their pain in the short term. Grab a beverage and your popcorn, the Globalist / Socialist tears are about to flow!
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/01/18/europeans-threaten-to-hold-up-eu-u-s-trade-deal-boycott-world-cup-over-trump-greenland-tariffs/
” … include boycotting the World Cup.” That will sure bring the US to its geostrategic knees.
I’m old enough to remember the Olympic boycott hijinks of 1980 and ’84. And we all saw how that turned out.
Meaningless circus-like hijinks are all these petulant Euroclowns understand now.
We really are dealing with entitled, arrogant freeloading children, who can’t even support themselves, playing socialist wet dreams games that we subsidize, and think they are far more important than they really are.
We’re not paying for your Ukrainian Adventure Park anymore, and we want Greenland.
Especially as we were the ones who built everything there … and also paid to rebuild your continent of rubble … 80 years ago.
Looks as though the EU sent their entire military to Greenland.
Not quite – there was one Frenchman left behind in charge of white flags.
Keep your eye on Finland/ Stubb. He won’t publicly break with Europe/NATO …yet.
Mind-blowing how much a bunch of [ingrate] freeloaders the EU countries have become.
It would seem foolish of Putin and Xi to allow this power grab. Especially since they have missile superiority. And because US Solders have been operating US Weapons targeting Russian Solders AND Civilians since 2014.
And Russia and China don’t need to ‘take’ Greenland, just deny US the ability to keep bases operating.
Giddy Up!
Smiling and enjoying. 😁💪😍
“Greenland is “Panama Canal North” for Trump.”….
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2009231659036786702.html
Is there anything we in the USA buy from Denmark? Why don’t we just stop buying whatever that is in a boycott?
I flew over Greenland once, it looked like a giant sheet of ice visible through a frpzen grey mist. Talk about a hostile environment.
As the UK Labour Party are now cancelling local elections depriving thousands of Brits of their democratic right to vote, as the Labor Party popularity collapses, in 2029 there should be a General Election, altho its apparently widely believed that the Labour Party will cancel that too if it seems likely they will lose. How Trump deal with Starmer or the EU on an allies basis, The US being a Democratic Constitutional state while the UK and the EU descend into the same kind of Socialist Tyranny currently endured by US Citizens in Minnesota?
This only shows that the Euro-Trash “leaders” are wholly-owned concubines of Chy-Na, Inc..
Thus proving the necessity of the Greenland Purchase.
Smart guy – Amazon Prime means free delivery!!!
The UK is passing a bill to recall vet up to age 65 yr old. This is funny video from a UK vet on it.
How about a bill to press into foreign military service all those below 65 IQ.
That would have all of their “asian migrants” out of the country in no time, instead of raping all the women and children ‘back home’.
Sundance …. I read your columns everyday …. many times I would like to forward a piece to like minded friends. I don’t use facebook, twitter, etc. I simply send by email or text.
The point? I wish you had it set up so the articles could be sent by e-mail.
Thank you.
That is easy. Email your friends this link:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/01/17/president-trump-announces-new-tariffs-against-eu-leadership-nations-attempting-to-interfere-in-north-american-strategic-defense-and-greenland-negotiations/
So much for Operation Barbierossa.
Losing the House and Senate to the Democrats in 2026 and the Presidency in 2028 is not in US strategic interests. I see zero signs that the US public understands or supports Trump’s Greenland objectives. In the void, people assume the policy is irrational, a matter of personal aggrandizement for an egomaniac, or that the real purposes are hidden from us. Mr. Trump needs to educate the electorate on WHY his Greenland policy serves our national and international interests, is fair, urgent, necessary, stabilizing in the long term, and has no etter alternatives. Given that the US already has treaty rights to place defense installations on Greenland as we see fit, why is actual US sovereignty over Greenland required? This isn’t apparent to most people. Strongarming our ostensible allies with threats of tariffs if they don’t cede territory seems Hitlerian to many, and destroys moral objections to Putin’s march into Ukraine.
Do you have a glass globe and turban also?
If you have any evidence that the US public writ large understands and/or supports forcibly annexing Greenland, please cite the source.
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the UK.
That is, all the usual freeloaders.
Italy, Spain, and the nations of Central and Eastern Europe want no part of their tantrum.
The endurance of the german soldiers seemed to be measured in hours. To cold?
Everything in Europe is pride and vanity and leftists grasping for any way to cling to power, no matter how destructive, like siding with Islamic invaders if the invaders will just vote for the communists who are letting them in, which the Islamic invaders are glad to do, until they’ve reach the point where they can rise up and kill the non-Muslims.
I think Greenland will have a new patron named Uncle Sam before this is over. That’s the easy part.
The hard part is how to have Puerto Ricans reclassified as U.S. nationals, rather than U.S. citizens, as they were before the Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917.
My husband told me if Russia would launch nuclear missiles from their western silos, the slowest part of the trajectory is over Greenland which makes it an imperative territory to place defense systems..