U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Friday that he may impose tariffs on countries that do not support U.S. control over Greenland, as a bipartisan congressional delegation worked to ease tensions in Copenhagen.
Trump for months has insisted that the U.S. should control Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, and said earlier this week that anything less than the Arctic island being in U.S. hands would be "unacceptable.β
During an unrelated event at the White House about rural health care, he recounted Friday how he had threatened European allies with tariffs on pharmaceuticals.
"I may do that for Greenland too,β Trump said.
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