Trump: NATO members to face tariffs increasing to 25% until a Greenland purchase deal is struck

Jan 17 202611:36 AM ESTUpdated An Hour Ago

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President Donald Trump said eight NATO members’ U.S. imports will face escalating tariffs “until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.”The tariffs will start at 10% on Feb. 1 and shoot up to 25% on June 1, Trump said.

The tariffs target Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland, Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Eight NATO members’ goods sent to the U.S. will face escalating tariffs “until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland,” President Donald Trump announced Saturday.

The tariffs targeting Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland will start at 10% on Feb. 1, Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

The tariffs will shoot up to 25% on June 1, the president said.

His post suggested that the new tariffs on the European allies were being imposed in response to them moving troops to Greenland.They took that step as the Trump administration has floated utilizing the U.S. military as part of its ramped-up efforts to acquire the Danish territory.

The eight countries “have journeyed to Greenland, for purposes unknown,” Trump wrote. “This is a very dangerous situation for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Planet.”

A day earlier, Trump hinted that he may pursue a tariff strategy on Greenland similar to the one he used to force foreign countries to change their drug prices.“I may do that for Greenland too. I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security,” he said at the White House on Friday.

Trump’s latest move puts further strain on NATO, the 32-member military alliance established in the aftermath of World War II. The cornerstone of the alliance is an agreement that an attack on any single member is considered an attack on them all.European leaders have warned that any attempt by the U.S. to take Greenland by force could spell the end of NATO.

Trump’s tariff announcement could mean he is dropping the threat of using the military to achieve his longtime goal of taking over the island. But it nevertheless ratchets up pressure on Denmark and the rest of Europe, which have flatly stated that Greenland is not for sale.

Trump is an enthusiastic fan of using tariffs as a tool for gaining political leverage over other countries. He has greatly expanded the government’s use of the levies over the past year, in large part through the unusual invocation of a law granting the president some powers in an economic emergency.

The Supreme Court could rule as soon as next week on whether to strike down the tariffs imposed under that law.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/17/trump-greenland-tariffs-nato.html

What these countries are doing is crazy, they are not believing the Danger of Russia and China. They think there will be peace in EU if they just trade with those countries, it's silly and ignorant, they are destroying their countries by allowing illegals to take them over. Seriously stupid and arrogant leaders.

The Trump admin tried to merge DEA and ATF. After pressure, it quietly abandoned the plan

Updated: 10:57 AM EST, Sat January 17, 2026

After pushback from both gun rights and gun control groups, the Trump administration hasquietly abandoned its planto merge the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives into the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to people briefed on the matter.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced plans last year to merge ATF into the DEA, aproposal that would require Congressional budgetary approval and is part of the early administration-wide effort to shrink the size of federal government agencies.

Officials involved in the proposal told CNN at the time of Blanche’s proposal that the two agencies had different missions — ATF is tasked with investigating violent crime, gun trafficking, arson and bombings, while DEA agents enforce the nation’s drug laws — but they naturally went hand-in-hand.

“Where there are drugs there are usually guns, and where there are guns there are usually drugs,” one of the officials previously told CNN.

The effort was re-affirmed in June, when Justice Department officials suggested eliminating the ATF “as a separate component, with its functions merged into the Drug Enforcement Administration,” leaving the DEA as “a single component that will address violent crime, drug enforcement, and crimes relating to firearms” in their budget proposal.

Administration officials’ expectations that pro-Trump gun-rights groups would welcome the plans were dashed almost immediately.Some conservative and gun-rights groups have long called for the ATF’s abolishmentbut raised concerns that a merger with another agency would empower the agency’s gun-related efforts, not weaken them.The MAGA groups want ATF gone and the laws it enforces repealed. Giving its powers to another agency makes things worse, a gun rightssource told CNN.

“Regulating guns is a hot potato. Everyone is for eradicating illegal drugs. Not everyone is for gun regulation,” one person involved in the Trump administration discussions that followed the Blanche memo told CNN.

Democrats and left-leaning gun control groups also decried the plan as an attempt to sideline ATF and harm efforts to reduce gun violence. But at the White House, the backlash from conservatives froze any momentum for the merger. Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, was initially in favor of merging the agencies but later came to advocate for the ATF’s role in crime-fighting efforts in cities, a top priority for the president, people briefed on the matter said.

“At some point, no one seemed to want to own the idea of a merger,” the person involved in the administration’s discussions told CNN.

Pro-gun groups like the Firearms Policy Coalition warned that merging the two law enforcement groups would create an “authoritarian ‘super-agency’ with the combined powers to wage the failed war on drugs and enforce unconstitutional federal gun control laws against all Americans, not just violent criminals and drug cartels.”

“This would be a DISASTER for gun owners and the Second Amendment,” the pro-gun rights group Gun Owners of America wrote on social media when the plans were initially reported early last year. “Combining ATF with other federal law enforcement agencies will only supercharge its unconstitutional attacks on the right to keep and bear arms.”

The push to merge the agencies had surfaced several other times over the years, as administrations have wrestled with what to do with an agency that is often buffeted by the politics surrounding gun rights issues. Joe Biden, when he was vice president, floated the idea in discussions about a task force that was set up to tackle mass shootings and gun crime in the Obama administration.

An ATF representative declined to comment for this story.

The decision to abandon the Trump administration’s plan comes as the White House works to secure Senate confirmation for Robert Cekada, who is nominated as director of the ATF. The agency has struggled with lengthy leadership vacuums amid the political turbulence that comes with regulating guns in the United States.

If confirmed, Cekada would be only the third leader, and the first in a Republican administration, to win Senate approval in the 20 years since the post became subject to Senate confirmation.

Cekada currently serves as deputy ATF director and is a 21-year veteran of the agency. The current acting director, Daniel Driscoll, also serves as army secretary, and while he was initially viewed as a skeptic of agency, he has become a champion of its violent crime work, according to people briefed on the matter.

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/01/17/politics/trump-plan-merge-atf-dea-quietly-abandoned

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EU executive weighs idea of quick, but limited membership for UkraineThe are inviting in a Perpetual Welfare and Mafia state. Good F'ing luck with that, they were supposed to wait 17 more years, because the country is corrupt in every area of the gov.

By Jan Strupczewski, Lili Bayer and Andrew Gray January 16, 2026 1:22 PM

Summary

EU considers Ukraine's quick accession with limited rights

Idea aims to shore up Ukraine's post-war stability

Ukraine's EU membership linked to possible peace deal with Russia

Staged access proposed for Ukraine's EU voting rights

BRUSSELS, Jan 16 (Reuters) - The European Commission is considering ways to allow Ukraine's quick accession to the EU as part of a peace deal with Russia but without giving Kyiv full membership rights, which would only be "earned" after transition periods, EU officials said.

The idea, which is at a very early stage, is intended as a possible gesture to Ukrainians who are seeking EU membership as part of a post-war security guarantee from Europe and who after four years of fighting off a Russian invasion want a credible promise that they are on the path toward economic stability and integration with the West.

Ukrainian EU membership in 2027 was pencilled into a 20-point peace plan discussed between the United States, Ukraine and the European Union, diplomats said, as a measure to ensure Ukraine's economic prosperity after the war ends.

But many EU governments believe that date, or any other fixed date, is completely unrealistic, because EU accession is currently a merit-based process, moving forward only when there is progress in adjusting a country's laws to EU standards.

Joining the bloc also requires signoff from the national parliaments of the EU's 27 member states.

The idea floated by EU officials would see the traditional process reversed, though even limited membership would still require the consent of EU governments and national parliaments.

"We have to recognise that we are in a very different reality than when the (accession) rules were first drawn up," one EU official said.

Ukraine - and potentially other candidates - would join the EU quickly and then get 'staged access' to voting rights, depending on their progress towards meeting the full membership criteria, the official said.

YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS

Ukraine has been battling a full-scale Russian invasion since February 2022 and became a candidate to join the EU in June that year, with negotiations opened at the end of 2023.

Normally accession talks take years: Poland, with a similar population to Ukraine, needed 10 years, without being at war, to complete negotiations and all the necessary legal changes to be able to join in 2004 along with nine other countries.

But some in the Commission argue that, politically, Ukraine does not have that much time, because a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia could entail territorial losses for Kyiv and be hard for Ukrainians to accept in a possible referendum.

EU membership, even if limited, could make that more palatable and establish the stability needed to complete the necessary reforms to gain full EU rights, officials said.

"It is Europe’s interest to have Ukraine in the EU, because of our own security," an EU diplomat said.

"It is why we need to look for creative solutions - how to get Ukraine in the EU quickly. The reversed membership concept reflects this idea - to have Ukraine joining the EU politically and then getting full rights and full-fledged membership once all conditions are met," the diplomat said.

Membership without full rights on the first day of accession is nothing new – most countries from the 2004 enlargement and later faced long transition periods to achieve, for example, the right of their citizens to work across the bloc.

But officials are now floating a model that would include more far-reaching limitations. They acknowledged that it would raise a host of questions beyond Ukraine and would struggle to win the unanimous support required.

"It will be a hard sell," a second EU official said. "It also has an impact on countries that have gone the good old traditional way and are close to accession after doing all the homework, like Montenegro or Albania."

https://archive.ph/YnjJ9#selection-1363.0-1427.218

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