President Donald Trump mused at length over his desire to absorb two countries protected by the NATO alliance on Thursday in a White House meeting with Secretary-General Mark Rutte.
Both Canada and Greenland, which is included in NATO as the territory of founding member Denmark, were raised during an informal press conference in the Oval Office. In the meeting, Trump also applied new pressure on the trans-Atlantic alliance to spend more on its collective defense.
Of Greenland, Trump quipped to reporters that Rutte could play a role in helping the United States with the island, contending, “We really need it for national security.”
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“I’m sitting with a man that could be very instrumental,” Trump told reporters of Rutte and Greenland. “We need that for international security,
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