While it’s cliché to call Donald Trump’s behavior childish, there’s really no other way to characterize his demand to take Greenland. Polls show that Greenlanders don’t want to be part of the U.S., and Americans’ support for forcibly taking the Arctic island is in the single digits. While Greenland is important for strategic and defense reasons, experts say Trump could get pretty much everything he wants there if he just asks nicely. But Trump keeps insisting he has to have Greenland, and he has to have it now.

Now the president is using increasingly immature tactics in his quest to obtain the Arctic island, pouting about how he was robbed of a Nobel Peace Prize and publicly sharing world leaders’ private text messages about Greenland on Truth Social.

Trump kicked off the long MLK Day weekend by inviting countries to join a new “Board of Peace,” which he will chair. It appears he’s envisioning an American-dominated alternative United Nations with a $1 billion admission fee. Then, in a lengthy Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump announced he will impose tariffs on several nations if they don’t let the U.S. purchase Greenland:

Starting on February 1st, 2026, all of the above mentioned Countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland), will be charged a 10% Tariff on any and all........

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