President Donald Trump sparred with Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in a "horrendous" phone call over U.S. control of Greenland. The post Trump Spars With Danish PM In ‘Horrendous’ Call Over Greenland: ‘Potentially Very Dangerous’ first appeared on Mediaite.

He views Mexico as a source of unwanted migration, drugs and Chinese goods, Canada as a liberal dystopia and Greenland as a weak link. Some of his remarks are bluster. The Gulf of Mexico, he says, should be renamed the Gulf of America.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks about his ambitions for buying Greenland from Denmark and retaking the Panama Canal despite a treaty.

Many assume this Trump tough talk is his signature bluster, which he uses to threaten allies to do what he wants. When he suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum trolled Trump with a 17th-century map labeling the United States “America Mexicana.”

There are other climate-related reasons for Mr. Trump to be interested in Canada and Greenland as they gain grain-growing land while we lose a chunk of ours to increasing temperatures, but it sounds just now as if Mr. Trump has shipping and the related matter of projecting naval power in mind.

A call between President Donald Trump and Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen about Greenland recently spiraled out of control, according to several officials briefed on the call. The Financial Times first reported Friday on the 45-minute call between Trump and Frederiksen,

Overall, a plurality of the poll’s respondents said they were opposed to the U.S. trying to gain ownership of Greenland and control of the Panama Canal. A majority also said they were opposed to the U.S. trying to attain Canada.

Rather than appeal to Denmark’s goodwill, President Trump’s rhetoric risks trapping the U.S. in a cycle of increasing coercion.

Trump Threatens Military Force to Acquire Panama Canal and Greenland | Firstpost America US President-elect Donald Trump has refused to rule out the use of military or economic force to seize control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.

Donald Trump argues that the US needs Greenland for national security, while a retaking of the Panama Canal is necessary to curb the overcharging of American ships and combat Chinese influence.

Greenland is protected by NATO’s Article 5 which invokes mutual defence in the case of any armed attack or invasion, the Finnish foreign minister has said. According to Elina Valtonen, Article 5 is extended to Greenland as an autonomous territory of Denmark,