Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York pointed to what he described as “classic Trump” strategies that helped secure a deal regarding Greenland.
President Donald Trump announced he “will not be imposing the Tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st” as a result of a framework deal with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. The details of the deal have not been released. Trump said the deal “pertains to security and minerals.”
“I have to say this was kind of classic Trump, wasn’t it?” York said on Fox News’s Special Report with Bret Baier on Wednesday. “Trump wants something, and then he asks for 10 times that, and the other side flips out. They go back and forth, and go back and forth, it becomes a huge new story. Finally, they make an offer. He agrees to it, and it’s kind of what they could’ve gotten in the first place.”
“And the other side’s happy because they think they dodged a bullet,” York added. “So it’s just classic Trump.”
Rutte said the negotiations did not involve Greenland’s sovereignty. Instead, the focus was “to make sure that that huge Arctic region, where change is taking place at the moment, where the Chinese and Russians are more and more active, how we can protect it,” Rutte told Baier in an earlier interview.
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Greenland’s geolocation is also a concern amid increased naval activity. The Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom gap could pose a strategic obstacle to military operations.
The minerals found in Greenland are used in the production of electric vehicles, wind turbines, and military equipment. In 2023, the most recent year for which data is available, mineral production totaled $105 billion.
