President Donald Trump refuses to back away from his intent to purchase Greenland. In the latest chapter of this geopolitical drama, he has leaked private texts he received from European leaders, and even shared an AI-generated image of him planting a flag in the Denmark territory, claiming it for the United States.
At 12:47 a.m. on Tuesday, January 20, Trump took to Truth Social to post texts he received from French President Emmanuel Macron. The European leader said that France and the United States were “totally in line” on Syria, that both countries could do “great things” on Iran, but added, “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.”
Macron then proposed a G7 meeting in Paris, and even invited Trump to dinner. According to CNN, a White House official revealed that Trump isn’t planning on visiting Paris after the scheduled Greenland meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Eleven minutes later, Trump posted an edited image of the August 2025 White House meeting, where the president hosted Macron, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and the UK’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, among others. The image featured a map of US territories, which included Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela.
Two minutes after that, Trump shared an AI-generated image of him, JD Vance, and Marco Rubio in Greenland. The president is shown planting a flag in US-controlled Greenland, with a sign which reads, “Greenland – US Territory – EST. 2026.”
After other Truth Social posts, including one in which he said that “Greenland has to be acquired” for “national security reasons,” Trump leaked another private text. The author, this time around, was Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO.
Rutte congratulated Trump for his actions in Syria, and said that he was “committed to finding a way forward on Greenland.”
Previously, Trump shared that he had a “very good” telephone call with Rutte, in which he agreed to meet various European leaders in Davos, Switzerland, with the Greenland issue taking center stage. He said that Greenland is “imperative for national and world security,” and that “there can be no going back.”
As previously reported, the United States’ initiative to take hold of Greenland has world leaders on the edge of their seats, with some European countries sending small groups of military personnel to the island. The Prime Minister of Greenland, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, recently said that, given the choice, Greenland would choose Denmark over the United States.
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June 14, 1946
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New York City, New York, USA
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