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Trump keeps Macron under spotlight as Greenland talks grind forward from Davos

Trump keeps Macron under spotlight as Greenland talks grind forward from Davos

President Donald Trump has turned up the heat on European leaders as he looks to ink a deal for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, including a specific focus on French President Emmanuel Macron in recent weeks.  Trump was in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum Wednesday and Thursday, delivering a speech and holding bilateral meetings with foreign leaders at the annual conference that attracts foreign dignitaries, business leaders and celebrities to discuss the world’s economy.  The president’s visit to Switzerland came as he threatened to impose tariffs on eight European nations if no deal on the U.S. acquiring Greenland was achieved by Feb. 1. Initial tariffs would have begun at 10% on goods from Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was set to increase to 25% by June 1 if there is no deal by that point.  Trump has put many of Europe’s top leaders on notice as he looks to secure the deal, but he has taken an outsized focus on Macron.  TRUMP SAYS FRAMEWORK OF ‘FUTURE DEAL’ ON GREENLAND REACHED AFTER NATO TALKS AS TARIFFS PUT ON HOLD The French president has meanwhile vowed from Davos that France will stand up to “bullies” and added that U.S. threats to impose tariffs in a bid to acquire Greenland was “fundamentally unacceptable.” Trump announced Wednesday that he would not impose tariffs that were set to take effect, citing a “framework of a future deal” with NATO involving Greenland and the Arctic region. “Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. The French president was pulled into more U.S. headlines in early January, after the U.S. military successfully captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife, which opened the floodgates to heightened discussions of the U.S. making moves to acquire Greenland from Denmark.  Days after Maduro’s capture and as talks of Greenland mounted, Trump joined House Republican lawmakers Jan. 6, when he imitated Macron’s accent while recounting how Trump pressured Macron to raise drug prices in France in 2025 as the U.S. looked to bring parity to its sky-high prescription costs compared to other nations. “He’s a nice guy,” Trump said before launching into an accent and recounting their conversation in a viral moment.  Trump again put on a French accent to recount the same conversation he held with Macron Jan. 16 during a rural healthcare roundtable at the White House.  “I said, ‘Emmanuel,’” Trump recounted.  “‘Yes, Donald, Donald. Thank you so much for calling,” he continued, using an accent to indicate Macron was speaking. “I said, ‘You’re not going to like this call,’” Trump continued.  TRUMP’S ‘SMALL ASK’ FOR GREENLAND WOULD BE THE REAL ESTATE DEAL OF A LIFETIME Trump recounted the story to show his long history as the deal-maker-in-chief and pressure Macron to raise France’s ultra-low government-set prices that Trump said let pharmaceutical companies shift costs onto Americans.  France was listed among eight countries facing additional tariffs if no Greenland deal is made. Trump singled out France early Tuesday morning when he shared a text message Macron sent Trump, which included the French leader saying, “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.” “My friend, We are totally in line on Syria(.) We can do great things on Iran(.)” Macron wrote, according to the screenshot. “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland(.) Let us try to build great things: 1) i (sic) can set up a g7 meeting after Davos in Paris on thursday afternoon. I can invite the ukrainians, the danish, the syrians and the russians in the margins 2) let us have a dinner together in Paris together on thursday before you go back to the us.” The president also shared a text from NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on social media, who told Trump that he was “committed to finding a way forward on Greenland.” “It just made my point,” Trump said in an interview with The New York Post of why he shared the messages. “They’re saying, ‘Oh gee, let’s have dinner, let’s do this, let’s do that.’ It just made my point.” Simultaneous to talks on potentially acquiring Greenland, Trump extended invitations to a swath of foreign leaders to join the Gaza Board of Peace, which is styled as a new oversight body tied to the next phase of the Gaza peace plan that the Trump administration ironed out in 2025.  Macron turned the invitation down, with his office saying the Board of Peace proposal “goes beyond the framework of Gaza and raises serious questions, in particular with respect to the principles and structure of the United Nations, which cannot be called into question,” according to Politico.   TRUMP CHALLENGES CARNEY AT DAVOS, ASSERTS CANADA SHOULD BE ‘GRATEFUL’ FOR GOLDEN DOME MISSILE DEFENSE Trump, again, targeted Macron with fiery comments when asked about the declined invitation.  “Oh, did he say that? Well nobody wants him because he’s gonna be out of office very soon. That’s alright. What I’ll do is if they feel like hostile, I’ll put a 200% tariff on his wines and champagnes and he’ll join. But he doesn’t have to join. If he said that, you’re probably giving it to me a little bit differently, but if he actually did say that– but as you know, he’s gonna be out of office in a few months,” Trump said. Macron’s term ends in 2027, and he is unable to run for a third consecutive term under French law.  Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment on the president’s rhetoric focused on Macron and France’s role in a potential Greenland deal but did not immediately receive a reply.  Trump underscored from his speech in Davos Wednesday that “no nation or group of nations is in any position to be able

Trump mocks ‘environmental insurrectionists’ as Americans brace for massive winter storms: ‘Global warming?’

Trump mocks ‘environmental insurrectionists’ as Americans brace for massive winter storms: ‘Global warming?’

As Americans brace for massive winter storms expected to impact more than 170 million people across the U.S., President Donald Trump mocked what he described as “environmental insurrectionists” in a Truth Social post on Friday. “Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States. Rarely seen anything like it before,” Trump said in the post. “Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain — WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???” he quipped. WHAT AMERICANS SHOULD STOCK UP ON TO PREPARE FOR THIS WEEKEND’S MASSIVE WINTER STORM “A significant, long-duration winter storm will bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain from the Southern Rockies to New England through Monday. Widespread travel disruptions, prolonged power outages, and vast tree damage is likely,” the National Weather Service noted in a Friday post on X. In a Truth Social post last year, the president declared, “I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax.”  Trump’s post addressed a recent essay by Bill Gates. In the essay, Gates wrote, “Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.” “Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue,” Trump wrote at the time. “It took courage to do so, and for that we are all grateful.”  NATIONAL PARK SERVICE REMOVES CLIMATE CHANGE FACTS SIGN FROM CIVIL WAR LANDMARK FORT SUMTER: REPORT Former Democratic President Joe Biden repeatedly addressed the issue of climate change during his White House tenure. In his 2023 State of the Union Address, Biden claimed there is a “climate crisis” that is “an existential threat.” TRUMP SAYS OFFICIALS WHO PUSHED CLIMATE CHANGE DOOMSDAY POLICIES SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED: ‘REWARDED FAILURE’ In a Truth Social post the night of Biden’s 2023 speech, Trump asserted, “His Climate Change statements, they can no longer use Global Warming because that doesn’t work anymore, will bankrupt our Country, and bring us into the Third World status, which we’re getting closer and closer to anyway.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.