Trump shares private messages and reiterates bid for Greenland ahead of Davos

President Trump posted private messages from France’s president and repeated his desire to take over Greenland in an overnight social media storm that hung over the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mr. Trump wrote “There can be no going back” about his designs on Greenland and shared messages from President Emmanuel Macron that a senior French official confirmed were authentic; Mr.

Macron wrote, “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland,” and invited Mr. Trump to dinner in Paris and to a proposed Group of 7 meeting with additional invitations to the Russians, Ukrainians, Danes and Syrians. Mr. Trump also shared a message from Mark Rutte, whom the article identified as NATO’s secretary general, saying he was “committed to finding a way forward on Greenland,” and an official at NATO said the exchange was authentic.

The posts included Mr. Trump’s insistence that American control of Greenland was essential for security — “We are the only POWER that can ensure PEACE throughout the World,” he wrote — and a computer-generated image of himself planting a flag on Greenland with a placard reading “GREENLAND, US TERRITORY, EST.

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World, Donald Trump, Greenland, World Economic Forum, Emmanuel Macron, Mark Rutte