Irish Examiner view: Trump tariff threat is yet another bully tactic

Once again, European leaders have to meet Trump head-on and face down his bully-boy tactics.

US president Donald Trump at a ceremony last Friday in Palm Beach, Florida, to rename part of a road as the President Donald J Trump Boulevard. Picture: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

Like a classic schoolyard bully, Donald Trump wants something that’s not his, is open to taking it by force if not handed it, and has stomped all over the rule book.

As European leaders grapple with his latest tariff threat, Trump yesterday declined to say whether he would use force to seize Greenland. Instead, he opted for a clearly inflammatory: “No comment.”