Trump threatens 25% tariff on European allies until Denmark sells Greenland to US

President raises pressure on European allies as US envoy says deal to take island ‘should and will be made’

The president’s longstanding interest in acquiring Greenland “one way or the other” has become a fixation since the US raid that captured Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro earlier in January. Picture: AP Photo/Evan Vucci

Donald Trump threatened a 25% tariff on a slew of European countries including Denmark, Germany, France and the UK — until the US is allowed to purchase Greenland, in an extraordinary escalation of the president’s bid to claim the autonomous Danish territory.

In a lengthy post on Saturday on Truth Social, the US president said he would impose a 10% tariff on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland beginning 1 February, “on any and all goods sent to the United States of America”.