President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte had reached agreement on a “framework” that could cool tensions triggered by his repeated vows to take control of Greenland.
Fresh off his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said on social media that he had a “productive meeting” with Rutte on the contours toward a “future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region.”
Amid American voters’ widespread disapproval about taking over the semi-autonomous Danish territory, the U.S. president appeared to drop his threat to slap new tariffs on European nations that had rejected his calls for America to take control of the island.
