US President Donald Trump looks on during an announcement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on February 12, 2026.
Donald Trump.
« I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States, » Trump wrote in the letter.
He later doubled down on his Greenland plans in a Truth Social post the same day, writing, « NATO has been telling Denmark, for 20 years, that ‘you have to get the Russian threat away from Greenland.’ Unfortunately, Denmark has been unable to do anything about it. Now it is time, and it will be done!!! President Donald J. Trump. »
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In a January interview with The New York Times, Trump said his desire to have ownership of Greenland is « psychologically important” to him.
Still, reporters questioned why he wouldn’t just send more American troops to Greenland if his goal was, as he previously stated, to fend off foreign threats from China and Russia.
After Trump told the outlet that ownership of the NATO territory is “what I feel is psychologically needed for success,” the Times’ White House correspondent Katie Rogers — whom Trump recently called « ugly, both inside and out » for writing a story about his age — asked him to clarify, « Psychologically important to you or to the United States? »
“Psychologically important for me, » Trump replied to Rogers. « Now, maybe another president would feel differently, but so far I’ve been right about everything. »
