Trump whined about his Greenland policies hurting the stock market, saying: “Iceland’s already cost us a lot of money.”…
President Donald Trump repeatedly referred to Greenland as “Iceland” during his speech at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, even as he demanded that the U.S. be handed ownership of the territory.
When the president initially raised Greenland, which he said he was originally “going to leave … out of the speech,” he referred to it correctly. He issued veiled threats to Denmark, invoking the U.S.’s illegal bombardment of Venezuela and abduction of its president when referring to the U.S.’s “great power.” He said Denmark is “ungrateful” toward the U.S., and suggested that seizing control of Greenland is a matter of self-defense.
“Without us, right now, you’d all be speaking German and a little Japanese, perhaps,” he told the crowd in Davos, Switzerland, referring to the U.S.’s role in World War II, and ignoring that German is the primary language spoken in Switzerland. “After the war, we gave Greenland back to Denmark. How stupid were we to do that? But we did it, but we gave it back. But how ungrateful are they now?”
He said he is “seeking immediate negotiations” on the U.
