Trump's Greenland push raises global tensions

President Trump's push for Greenland today also pushed down stock markets by triple digits, but that didn't stop the president, as he teased how far he'll go to acquire the Danish-controlled island. You'll find out.

He's openly mocking the world by posting images like this one and trolling France's Emmanuel Macron by sharing details of the leader's text to him. "I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland," Macron wrote. Today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says it's simple. Why does the United States need Greenland? To make America strong, we need to have a strong Western Hemisphere, and the world needs a strong America.

And the energy secretary tells us it has nothing to do with extracting rare-earth minerals from the island.

It's a remote area. This is not about resource capture at all. This is about national security.

Trump's threat to tariff those allies who don't back his Greenland plans appears to be pushing them away. It is time to seize this opportunity and build a new, independent Europe.

And some, like this Danish member of the European Parliament, are being more direct. Mr. Trump, [BLEEP] off.

But among Americans attending the summit, California's Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, says that more aggressive posture is exactly what's needed. What he doesn't respond well to and what is effective is strength. And he responds to that in a very different way. And for the European Union, it's critical that they develop a backbone, clarity, conviction. And, Ed, the president leaves tonight for Davos. That's where you are already. Clearly, many US allies are frustrated with all this Greenland talk. How do you see things playing out on the ground there? Yeah, that news conference today was called to mark the first year back in office, and he talked about his work on immigration and the economy and reshaping the world. But it's these threats against Greenland that have leaders here now talking much more openly about finding alternatives to working with the United States. The Canadian prime minister, quite starkly today, called it a rupture, not a transition, and suggested that the old world order, as it was once known, is now over. We'll see if the president's face-to-face meetings tomorrow and on Thursday do anything to calm their concerns.