President Donald Trump leaves after a signing ceremony of his Board of Peace initiative at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 22.

WASHINGTON – Despite “psychologically” needing to acquire Greenland, President Donald Trump on Thursday headed back to the United States with just “the framework” of an agreement that appears to exist only in his own mind.

Weeks of antagonising both Denmark and all of Nato with threats of tariffs and even war, in Trump’s telling, won the United States key concessions in the Danish territory following a one-on-one meeting with the alliance’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

“We’re getting everything we wanted – total security, total access to everything,” Trump bragged to Fox Business on Thursday morning, acknowledging that the details are still being worked out. “Essentially, it’s total access. There’s no end. There’s no time limit.”

Yet Trump could barely begin his victory lap for his claimed achievement before it began falling apart. Rutte – who notwithstanding his strategy of continually praising Trump to avoid conflicts felt the........

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