At Davos, Trump Seeks Immediate Negotiations on Greenland and Says He Will Not Use Force
President Donald Trump delivered a special address on January 21 at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, saying that one year after his inauguration the American economy is booming. On Greenland, he said he was seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States, while publicly ruling out force: I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. I won't use force.
Trump said Greenland is a core national security interest of the United States, sitting between the United States, Russia and China, and that no nation or group of nations other than the United States is in a position to secure it. He recalled that U.S. forces had defended Greenland during World War II and that the United States returned it to Denmark after the war, and he argued that the United States has paid far more for NATO than other members. They can say yes, and we will be very appreciative, or they can say no, and we will remember, he said.
In the address, Trump also presented his account of his administration's first year, saying core inflation over the past three months had been 1.6 percent, fourth-quarter growth was projected at 5.4 percent, more than 270,000 bureaucrats had been removed from the federal payroll, federal spending had been cut by $100 billion and the federal budget deficit slashed by 27 percent. He noted that he had signed an executive order barring large institutional investors from buying single-family homes, and he called on Congress to cap credit card interest rates at 10 percent for one year.
Source: The White House
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