If President Trump chose to take control of this Arctic island, the administration said, it would be his for the taking. In Nuuk on Friday, after visiting with local leaders at a government office on the main boulevard of Greenland’s capital, Frederiksen embraced locals fearful of an imperialist United States. “An unpredictable and unfriendly United States threatening to use force against a fellow NATO ally was unthinkable. “There’s no point in being soft anymore,” Belgium’s prime minister told the local press. On Friday, Trump disinvited Carney from joining his “Board of Peace,” an organization that Trump founded primarily to assist in the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.

Source: The Times January 25, 2026 12:32 UTC