US President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2026.

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US allies unite against Trump's threats to take over Greenland at Davos

By Caolán Magee and Tim Hume

Published On 21 Jan 202621 Jan 2026

  • US President Donald Trump has arrived at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Switzerland to speak at the annual gathering of the global elite where he says he’ll have “many meetings” after threatening to annex Greenland.
  • The WEF agenda has, to some extent, been overtaken by Trump’s dramatic policy moves including his recent demand that the United States take over Greenland “the easy way or the hard way”.