This time, Trump said he would no longer threaten some of America’s European allies with additional tariffs because he’d reached a “framework for a future deal with respect to Greenland.”(Whiplash Wednesday! Trump said he talked to the head of NATO and they’ve got a plan, details very much TBD. After all, they’ve seen just this week how quickly any Trump deal — or a framework for a future deal, even a concept of a deal — is little more than a pacifier for a president who will renege the moment he decides he wants something new. Just a few hours before Trump dropped the Greenland news, he came into Davos like a wrecking ball. While he spoke, members of the European Parliament decided they’d had enough and put out a statement indefinitely suspending work on a preliminary trade deal reached with the US in July.

Source: CNN January 22, 2026 04:31 UTC