Trump says won't use force on Greenland, reiterates claim in Davos | Highlights

Trump Greenland news live updates: US President Trump at the WEF in Davos said Venezuela was a great country 20 years back, but situation had since deteriorated.

Trump said that after US attack on Venezuela ended and the capture of Nicolas Maduro, the country had offered to make a deal.

Trump Greenland news live updates: US President Trump said that America had made “historic trade deals with 40 per cent of the world.” He said that the “ballooning trade deficits” in US were reduced owing to the tariffs on countries.

Trump Greenland news live updates: US President Trump, in his speech at the WEF in Davos, said certain places in Europe are not “recognisable”, adding that “there's no argument” on the matter.

“I love Europe, and I want to see Europe go good. But it's not heading in the right direction,” the US President said, while citing increased government spending and unchecked mass migration.

Trump Greenland news live updates: US President Trump, beginning his speech at teh WEF in Davos, lauded one year of his presidency.

“Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of my inauguration and today our economy is booming, growth exploding, incomes rising, inflation defeated and the previously open and dangerous border closed and the US is in the midst of the most dramatic turnaround in our history,” Trump said.

Trump Greenland news live updates: Ahead of the US President's speech, hundreds of people queued into Zone C of Congress Hall of the World Economic Forum.

Trump Greenland news live updates: The US delegation which has landed in Switzerland, alongside President Donald Trump, includes his Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

One of Donald Trump's key policy advisers, Stephen Miller, is also travelling to Davos with him, BBC reported. Miller is currently serving as White House deputy chief of staff.

Trump Greenland news live updates: US President Trump and his delegation landed in Zurich, Switzerland earlier today, and are now headed to Davos by helicopter, BBC reported.

The US delegation is headed to the World Economic Forum venue, wherein Trump is first scheduled to attend a reception of business leaders, and will later speak at the WEF.

Trump Greenland news live updates: United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday said he would not give in to US President Trump's pressure over Greenland.

“I will not yield, Britain will not yield on our principles and values about the future of Greenland under threats of tariffs, and that is my clear position,” Starmer told lawmakers, according to AFP.

Trump Greenland news live updates: US President Trump may touch on issues involving Greenland and Venezuela, and his ‘Board of Peace’ and hemispheric domination at the World Economic Forum in Davos, a senior White House official told Reuters news agency.

The US President, who landed in Zurich early Wednesday, will discuss his American First-based economic policies at the WEF.

Trump Greenland news live updates: Norway's defence minister Tore Sandvik told a meeting of foreign correspondents in Oslo that while the NATO situation is “difficult” and “these are demanding times”, the common adversary is Russia, Reuters news agency reported.

“The dimensional threat for the West, for NATO, ... still is Russia,” Tore Sandvik said.

Trump Greenland news live updates: US President Trump has landed in Zurich, Switzerland. The US President is supposed to attend a reception today with business leaders before making a speech before the World Economic Forum later.

Trump Greenland news live updates: Amid US President Donald Trump's tariff threats over Greenland, UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves said “we would never rule anything out” while talkin about retaliatory tariffs, BBC reported.

French President Emmanuel Macron has also said that the European Union could consider a series of retaliatory options. Trump had threatened to impose an additional 10 per cent tariff to “any and all goods”imported from eight European countries from 1 February, including the UK, if they opposed the proposed takeover of Greenland.

Trump Greenland news live updates: European Council President António Costa has said that US President Donald Trump's tariff threats over Greenland pose a challenge to Europe's security and principles, the Associated Press reported.

This comes in the wake of Trump's threats to impose tariffs on eight European nations if they oppose the US takeover of Greenland. Costa is scheduled to convene an emergency meeting with EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday.

Trump Greenland news live updates: The US has pushed back against French President Macron's calls to hold a NATO-led military exercise in Greenland.

“If this is all President Macron has to do when the European, when the French budget, is in shambles, I would suggest that he focuses on other things for the French people,” Bloomberg quoted US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as saying on Wednesday.

Trump Greenland news live updates: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has asked European nations to “sit down and wait” for US President Donald Trump to arrive at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

Bessent said that the countries should listen to Trump's argument, while adding that he thinks “they’re going to be persuaded”, CNN reported.

Trump Greenland news live updates: The NATO military chiefs met on Wednesday for what they said was a “detailed, frank discussion”, the New York Times reported.

Adm. Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Italian chair of NATO’s military committee, did not mention Greenland specifically during remarks at the start of a two-day meeting in Brussels.

However, he urged the member nations' military chiefs to protect the unity among its allies, according to NYT.

NATO chief Mark Rutte on Wednesday said the alliance must not allow tensions over Greenland to distract them from the Ukraine issue.

“The focus on Ukraine should be the number one priority, it is crucial for European and US security,” Rutte said during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, according to Reuters news agency.

Trump Greenland news live updates: US President Donald Trump expressed confidence that the US-Europe trade deal would be affected amid tensions over his threats on Greenland.

“I doubt it,” Trump said, according to Bloomberg. Meanwhile, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had on Tuesday called Trump's threats over Greenland a “mistake” which would violate the deal he forged last year with the bloc.

Trump Greenland news live updates: NATO chief Mark Rutte Wednesday said “thoughtful diplomacy” was needed to deal with tensions pver Greenland, with US President Donald Trump's threats to take over the territory.

“I see that there are these tensions at the moment, there's no doubt. Again, I'm not going to comment on that, but I can assure you, the only way to deal with that is, in the end, thoughtful diplomacy,” AFP cited Rutte as saying at the World Economic Forum.

Trump Greenland news live updates: Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever gave a strong response to US President Donald Trump's quest for Greenland.

“Until now, we tried to appease the new president in the White House…But now so many red lines are being crossed. Being a happy vassal is one thing. Being a miserable slave is something else,” Wever said, according to Euractiv.

This comes even as leaders of 27 European Union nations are scheduled to meet in Brussels on Thursday evening to discuss the situation, New York Times reported.

Trump Greenland news live updates: Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, while speaking to the Associated Press on the sidelines of Davos, said Europeans are willing to increase security in Greenland but would not “accept to be blackmailed.”

Kristersson further stated that he “would not speculate”on whether NATO has shattered beyond repair after Trump's threats to take over Greenland. The country joined NATO in 2024.

Trump Greenland news live updates: The United States “is behaving very strangely” for an ally, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday, as US President Donald Trump intensified his campaign to take Greenland from NATO ally Denmark.

Asked in Davos during an interview with French radio station RTL whether the United States was an “ally” or an “adversary” of the European Union, Lagarde replied, “They are behaving very strangely for allies.”

“When you are allies under the North Atlantic Treaty, when you have been allies for decades and have been part of each other's history, threatening to seize territory that is clearly not for sale, such as Greenland, and waving tariff restrictions, and various other restrictions on international trade, is not really behaving like an ally,” she said.

Trump Greenland news live updates: China dismissed suggestions on Wednesday that it would seek to gain influence in the West as a US push to take control of Greenland threatens to alter the balance of a long-standing transatlantic security alliance.

Asked whether Beijing welcomed the “chaos” over Greenland, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told a regular briefing, “We have no intention of competing for influence with any country, nor would we ever do so."

Trump Greenland news live updates: US President Donald Trump's session at the World Economic Forum was scheduled to be held between 14:30 and 15:15 Central European Time (CET), around 7 pm to 7:45 pm (IST), according to WEF website.

However, he will now be about three hours late to Davos after an electrical issue on Air Force One forced him to change planes, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent said.

"I believe President Trump is going to be about three hours late. I haven't seen the updated schedule," Bessent told reporters.

Trump Greenland news live updates: The tariffs President Donald Trump has vowed to impose on eight European countries, unless the US is allowed to seize Greenland, would eventually cut European Union economic growth by 0.5%, according to a study released by the Austrian National Bank on Wednesday.

“Due to the direct impact on some countries, the effects on the Eurozone-20 and the EU are significantly greater (than on Austria), at around minus 0.1% in the short term and minus 0.5% in the long term,” the study said.