“You’ll Find Out”: Trump on How Far He’d Go to Acquire Greenland

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts to a question about how far he would be willing to go to acquire Greenland, replying, “You’ll find out.” The brief exchange has renewed international discussion around Greenland’s strategic importance, Arctic security, and the wider geopolitical stakes involving the United States, Europe, NATO, Russia, and China.

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00:00We're up like we were before.

00:02We're doing numbers that nobody's ever thought possible.

00:07We're the richest we ever were.

00:09It's because of tariffs and the proper use of tariffs.

00:12And we're also the most secure.

00:14As an example, Iceland, without tariffs,

00:16they wouldn't even be talking to us about it.

00:18So we'll see what happens.

00:19I think it's going to work out quite well.

00:21Right behind.

00:23Thank you, Mr. President.

00:24How would you characterize your relationship

00:26with Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer right now?

00:29And have you spoken to them since your social post last year?

00:32No, I haven't.

00:33But I think I get along very well with them.

00:35I mean, they always treat me well.

00:37They get a little bit rough when they're, you know,

00:39when I'm not around.

00:40But when I'm around, they treat me very nicely.

00:43And, you know, I like both of them.

00:46They're both liberal.

00:49They've got to straighten out their countries.

00:51You can't, you know, London is having a lot of problems.

00:54And if you look at Paris, it's got a lot of problems.

00:57They have two problems, immigration and energy.

01:00They've got to stop with the windmills.

01:02And they've got to go back, like,

01:04the U.K. has an unbelievable asset called the North Sea.

01:08Norway uses it, makes a fortune.

01:11They have a better section of it, and they don't do it.

01:14They could straighten out their countries, and it would be good.

01:16But I get along very well with them.

01:18Go ahead.

01:19The Press, Mr. President, you told Norway's Prime Minister that

01:22Are you from Norway?

01:23No.

01:24You look like you would be from Norway.

01:25But she looks like she's from Norway.

01:27Go ahead.

01:28The Press, Mr. President, you told Norway's Prime Minister

01:30that you not winning the Nobel Peace Prize

01:32made you feel less obligated to think purely of peace.

01:35What would not...

01:36Well, I lost a lot of respect for Norway.

01:37And I believe, and I believe very strongly,

01:40that Norway controls the Nobel Prize.

01:42But you have to understand, I settled eight wars.

01:45I've had every one of those wars, every participant wrote.

01:49I didn't ask them to do it.

01:50They sent in strong recommend...

01:53You know, they make recommendations for that.

01:55But I settled eight wars.

01:56No President has probably ever settled one war.

01:58I don't know.

01:59Think of it.

02:00I did eight.

02:01The reason I do it is because it's easy for me to do.

02:04And I didn't do it for a Nobel Prize.

02:06I did it because I'm saving a lot of lives.

02:08I'm trying to settle the final one.

02:10I'm trying to do Russia-Ukraine.

02:12And when Russia's ready, Ukraine's not.

02:14When Ukraine's ready, Russia's not.

02:15When Ukraine's ready, Russia's not.

02:17But they're losing 25,000 people a month, on average.

02:21And I'm trying to get that one done.

02:23But, no, I feel...

02:24But I feel that Norway has tremendous control over who gets the Nobel Prize,

02:28despite what they say.

02:29The President.

02:30How far are you willing to go to acquire green?

02:33You'll find out.

02:35Thank you, Mr. President.

02:36Kevin Hassett has said that those $2,000 tariff rebate checks would be up to Congress

02:46to decide whether or not to disperse that.

02:48Do you agree with Kevin Hassett on that?

02:50Or do you think you can do that unilaterally?

02:52I don't think we would have to go the Congress out.

02:55But, you know, we'll find out.

02:56The reason we're even talking about it is that we have so much money coming in from tariffs

03:01that we'll be able to issue at least a $2,000 dividend and also pay down debt for the country.

03:07But we'd do a $2,000 dividend to the people of our country.

03:11It would probably set a limit of, you know, income limit where it made sense.

03:16But we will be able to make a very substantial dividend to the people of our country.

03:21I believe we can do that without Congress.

03:28Last night on Truth Social, you said that the British plan to hand the base of Diego Garcia over to Mauritius

03:33and then rent it back was an act of great stupidity.

03:36Previously, you backed that bill.

03:38Is it now your position that the deal should not go ahead?

03:41I think that they, you know, when they originally were going to do it,

03:44they were talking about doing some concept of ownership.

03:47But now they're looking to essentially just do a lease and sell it.

03:51And I'm against that.

03:52You know, it's a reasonably nothing like Greenland,

03:56but it's a reasonably important area of the globe.

03:59Not to anywhere near Greenland, but I think they should keep it.

04:04I don't know why they're doing it.

04:05Do they need money?

04:07Mr. President, with your support to the Syrian government,

04:11most probably you avoided another civil war and a bloodshed in Syria,

04:17especially after the fall of the regime.

04:18I did a good job.

04:19I did a good job.

04:20The Syrian government, the last two weeks,

04:24had to use some force to implement its force on specific areas.

04:30And with your —

04:31Mr. Well, to keep the prisoners — the terrorist prisoners,

04:34which are some of the worst in the world at bay.

04:36So they were able to keep that.

04:39He's working very hard, the President of Syria.

04:42He's working very, very hard.

04:44Strong guy.

04:45Tough guy.

04:46Pretty rough resume.

04:48But you're not going to put a choir boy in there and,

04:51you know, get the job done.

04:53I spoke with him yesterday because we were talking about the prisons

04:56and, you know, what was going on.

04:57We have some of the worst terrorists in the world in those prisons,

05:00and he's watching them.

05:01The Press Press on Syria, sir.

05:03Go ahead.

05:04The Press Press, Mr. President, Gavin Newsom is going to be at Davos.

05:07If he's not already there, you're probably going to run into him.

05:10I presume that this is for him to raise his platform for 2028.

05:13But what do you anticipate his foreign policy platform is going to be?

05:16I don't know.

05:17I mean, I don't know that he's going to be the nominee.

05:19I know this.

05:20I had a very good relationship with Gavin Newsom when we were,

05:24you know, in office together.

05:26I was President.

05:27He was the Governor of California.

05:29We had a really — he would talk about it often.

05:31And somewhere, we just went astray.

05:33I just — I just hate the way California is being run.

05:37We actually have people leaving.

05:39It's never happened before.

05:41But I hate the way it's being run.

05:42He and I had a very good relationship.

05:44Really close to the word exceptional.

05:48But now, we seem not to.

05:50Thank you, President Trump.

05:54You spoke earlier —

05:55I'm Greenland.

05:56I'm Greenland, Mr. President.

05:57You've been hearing from allies.

05:59Thank you so much, President Trump.

06:00Kara Castanova from Lindell TV.

06:02And you spoke earlier about the 2020 election.

06:04Now that Maduro is in U.S. custody and he was criminally charged,

06:09has any more information emerged that you could share with us

06:12regarding Venezuelan election software

06:14and Venezuelan ties to tampering with the 2020 election?

06:17And would you consider speaking to Maduro personally in prison in New York

06:22to get some answers on Venezuela's involvement with the 2020 election?

06:25No, I don't think I would be doing that.

06:27I think my lawyers would be very unhappy if I did that.

06:31Yeah, they've learned — they've learned some things.

06:33Please.

06:34What happens to the tariff threat to Greenland

06:36if the Supreme Court comes out and rules against you on the tariffs?

06:40And —

06:41Well, I'll have to use something else.

06:42I mean, look —

06:43Are you willing to use force?

06:44You know, take a look at the word license.

06:45Take a look at other things.

06:46I mean, we have other alternatives.

06:48But the — what we're doing now is the best, the strongest, the fastest,

06:52the easiest, the least complicated.

06:54Sir, if you move ahead with the Greenland-related tariffs on Europe,

07:01you secured almost a trillion dollars of commitments from them

07:04to invest in the United States.

07:06Does that go kaput out the window if that happens?

07:09I doubt it.

07:10Look, they want to — they need that agreement very badly with us.

07:13They really do.

07:14They fought very hard to get it.

07:16So I doubt that.

07:17But we'll see what happens.

07:18We have a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland.

07:21I'm leaving tonight, as you know, Davos.

07:23And we have a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland.

07:27And I think things are going to work out pretty well, actually.

07:30Thank you, Mr. President.

07:32Could you still go to Paris for the G7 emergency meeting, as offered by President Macron?

07:41No, I wouldn't do that.

07:42Because, you know, Emmanuel — Emmanuel is not going to be there very long.

07:49And, you know, there's no longevity there.

07:53He's a friend of mine.

07:54He's a nice guy.

07:55I like Macron.

07:56But he's not — he's not going to be there very much longer, as you know.

08:00And I think — you know, I have meetings with the people that are directly involved,

08:04not some of the people you're talking about.

08:08Thank you, Mr. President.

08:09Thank you so much.

08:10Thank you so much, Mr. President.

08:11Happy new year.

08:12You know, I've never seen this room like this.

08:16Is this a celebration of the first year?

08:19Yes.

08:20Have you ever seen it?

08:21I've never seen this many.

08:23I hope we have a very good — I hope we have a very good structural floor.

08:27You know, this used to be a swimming pool.

08:29You're sitting over a swimming pool.

08:31I could see that happen.

08:32Yeah.

08:33But this — we need a good structure here, don't we, huh?

08:36Yeah.

08:37Mr. President.

08:38Thank you so much, Mr. President.

08:39Happy one-year anniversary.

08:41And my question is, sorry — on Syria.

08:43The Kurds, as the most loyal U.S. partners facing attacks by some Syrian elements within

08:48the Syrian government, will you do to ensure the Kurdish rights protected on their effective

08:53forces against terrorism in Rojava, Syria, continue as the Kurdish see you as a president

08:58does not abandon his allies?

09:00Well, I like the Kurds.

09:01But just so you understand, the Kurds were paid tremendous amounts of money, were given

09:05oil and other things, so they were doing it for themselves more so than they were doing

09:10for us.

09:11But we got along with the Kurds, and we are trying to protect the Kurds.

09:14That's correct.

09:15Ahead of your speech in Davos, can you give us a preview of what we can expect as far as,

09:20you know, laying out the plans for Americans to be able to buy homes?

09:23I think more than anything else, what I'm going to be speaking about is the tremendous

09:26success that we've had in one year.

09:28I didn't think we could do it this fast.

09:31Think of it.

09:32It's just now 12 months.

09:33And, you know, I say it often.

09:35We have the most successful country in the world.

09:37We have the hottest country anywhere in the world by far.

09:40And this country would have been absolutely stone-cold dead.

09:43And I'm going to be talking about it.

09:46I'm going to be because, you know, a lot of them could use some of the advice as to what

09:50we did.

09:51They need energy.

09:52You take a look at their energy policy.

09:54They're going to destroy themselves with what they're doing with the windmills and all

09:58the nonsense.

09:59They need energy help badly or they're going to be in big trouble.

10:04And they need immigration help badly.

10:07How much longer do you want to go?

10:09Yes, sir.

10:10I'll call it.

10:11I do.

10:12I have a very important call with President Erdogan, who I like a lot.

10:23All right.

10:24One or two more questions.

10:25Go ahead.

10:26Thank you, Mr. President.

10:27Thank you, Mr. President.

10:28During your second-

10:29Go ahead, please.

10:30Go ahead.

10:31Thank you, Mr. President.

10:32The red blouse.

10:33Go ahead.

10:34You talked a lot at the beginning of this about the economy, some positive economic indicators.

10:35Polling shows a majority of Americans don't feel the economy is doing well.

10:48Are you worried you're making the same mistake as President Biden?

10:51No, no.

10:52I hope I don't make the same mistake as him.

10:54Look, I inherited a terrible — I mean, it's a great question, because we inherited

10:59a terrible, terrible mess between the border, between all the problems.

11:04The whole country was falling apart.

11:06And in 12 months — less than 12 months — I mean, in 12 months, we have the strongest border

11:11we've ever had.

11:12We have prices that are much, much lower than they were for the last — we inherited very

11:17high prices.

11:18We inherited — remember this — inflation was at a historic high.

11:23We had never had inflation like that.

11:25They say 48 years.

11:26But whether it's 48 years or ever, we had the highest inflation, in my opinion, that we've

11:32ever had.

11:33Prices, because of that, were very high.

11:35I inherited — we brought down eggs immediately.

11:38Remember the first news conference, they were screaming at me about eggs.

11:41I was in the position for two days, and they're — we brought eggs down to lower than what

11:47they were before.

11:48And by the way, they continue that way.

11:50We brought the prices down from when I came into office, and from what Biden had, way down.

11:55We're gonna bring them down further.

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