Danish officials react to tariff threat: We will not 'bow down' to Trump's 'bullying tactics'
Source: The Hill
01/17/26 1:53 PM ET
Denmark leaders are refusing to back down to the Trump administration after President Trump announced plans Saturday to impose new tariffs on the country and seven of its allies next month amid his push to acquire Greenland. Danish lawmaker Pelle Dragsted, in a translated post on social platform X, urged European leaders to demonstrate solidarity and resistance to Trumps import taxes.
Trump must not be allowed to divide us, Dragsted continued. The EU must respond united and hit back hard. Go hard after the tech oligarchs in Trumps inner circle. Enough is enough! Trump said his administration will impose a 10 percent tariff on all goods imported to the U.S. from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland, starting Feb. 1.
We have subsidized Denmark, and all of the Countries of the European Union, and others, for many years by not charging them Tariffs, or any other forms of remuneration, he wrote in a post on Truth Social. Now, after Centuries, it is time for Denmark to give back World Peace is at stake! The president also noted that once the 10 percent tariff rate goes into effect, it will remain until the purchase of Greenland is negotiated and could rise to 25 percent on June 1 if a deal is not struck by then.
Danish Chamber of Commerce CEO Brian Mikkelsen rebuffed the threat, saying, Trumps farce continues. The American president is once again using tariffs as a threat, Mikkelsen wrote on X in a translated post. As so many times before, it is damaging to confidence in world trade and damaging to the American and European economies.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5694216-denmark-response-trump-tariff-threat-greenland/
Midnight Writer
(25,161 posts)Canada forged an agreement with China.
Tourists and students and workers are redrawing their plans so they can avoid the US.
The rest of the world is starting to work around us, just as we would work around a mess on the sidewalk.
We've shown we can't be trusted as a trade partner, as a military ally, as a friend of freedom and democracy. Hell, we apparently can't even enforce child trafficking laws because our leaders may be embarrassed.
I wonder if we will ever get our reputation back. I'm afraid we may have already seen the peak of America.
riversedge
(79,647 posts)Lovie777
(21,910 posts)history has predicted. When humans deny and never learn from the pass, it tends to repeat itself.
wolfie001
(7,185 posts)Unless it's cow manure.
We do buy their Danish cheese because it doesn't have forever chemicals like just about everything made in the US.
Laurelin
(775 posts)It's really funny. Last I heard they sent 2, count them 2, people to join the war games.
riversedge
(79,647 posts)Thousands march in Greenland to support Arctic island in the face of Trumps threats to take it over
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-greenland-us-trump-899d73348f2ee6c0cd2a8a6e6e136a90
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A protest was held in Denmarks capital Copenhagen on Saturday in support of Greenland, amid US President Donald Trumps insistence that the U.S. should control the self-governing island.
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There is no such thing as a better colonizer the leader of the Inuit Circumpolar Council in Greenland said on Friday as she responded to U.S. President Donald Trump demands to own the Arctic island. (AP Video: Kwiyeon Ha)
Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen speaks during a protest against Trump's policy towards Greenland in front of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen speaks during a protest against Trumps policy towards Greenland in front of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A girl shouts during protest against Trump's policy towards Greenland in front of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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A girl shouts during protest against Trumps policy towards Greenland in front of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A woman pulls her children on a sled during a protest against Trump's policy towards Greenland in front of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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A woman pulls her children on a sled during a protest against Trumps policy towards Greenland in front of the US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
People protest against Trump's policy towards Greenland in front of US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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People protest against Trumps policy towards Greenland in front of US consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
People march during a pro- Greenlanders demonstration, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
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People march during a pro- Greenlanders demonstration, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. (Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
By EMMA BURROWS, DANIEL NIEMANN and STEFANIE DAZIO
Updated 2:35 PM CST, January 17, 2026
NUUK, Greenland (AP) Thousands of Greenlanders carefully marched across snow and ice to take a stand against U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday. They held signs of protest, waved their national flag and chanted Greenland is not for sale in support of their own self-governance in the face of increasing threats of an American takeover.
Just as they finished their trek from the small downtown of Greenlands capital city Nuuk to the U.S. Consulate, the news broke: Trump, from his home in Florida, announced he will charge a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European countries over their opposition to U.S. control of Greenland.
I thought this day couldnt get any worse but it just did, Malik Dollerup-Scheibel said after The Associated Press told him about Trumps announcement. It just shows he has no remorse for any kind of human being now.
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-greenland-us-trump-899d73348f2ee6c0cd2a8a6e6e136a90
nwduke
(487 posts)THE US CONSUMER! Its a tax on consumers!