The sudden escalation in the early weeks of this year of Trump’s efforts to seize control of Greenland has left European allies badly shaken and sent his own aides rushing to develop policies that would fulfill his widening threats, even as some are worried the president might be taking things too far in asserting the US will settle for nothing less than total control of the country. Trump had come to view the capture of the Venezuelan leader as a major achievement for the US, and many of the conversations leading up to and following the operation centered on America’s global influence, people familiar with the conversations said. The White House declared in a statement that using the military to annex Greenland “is always an option.” Stephen Miller, one of Trump’s most powerful advisers, argued on CNN that the US had a right to take Greenland, citing a world “that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.” Miller’s wife, Katie Miller, posted a social media picture of the island covered in the red, white and blue.
Author: Kevin Liptak, Alayna Treene, Kylie Atwood, Zachary Cohen, Natasha Bertrand, Adam Cancryn
Published at: 2026-01-19 23:27:33
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