Trump speaks as tensions over Greenland dominate Davos

TIME

President Donald Trump delivered a defiant and combative address at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, using the annual gathering of world leaders and business executives to tout America’s role in the world and pressing his case for the U.S. to acquire Greenland.

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00:00It's great to be back in beautiful Davos, Switzerland, and to address so many respected business leaders, so many friends, few enemies.

00:17We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force, where we would be, frankly, unstoppable.

00:24But, I won't do that. I don't have to use force. I don't want to use force. I won't use force.

00:34We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.

00:38Great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons.

00:42Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructure as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.

00:49We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland's future.

00:57Competition from the United States of America through trade agreements that undermine our export interests, demand maximum concessions,

01:05and openly aim to weaken and subordinate Europe, combined with an endless accumulation of new tariffs that are fundamentally unacceptable,

01:15even more so when they are used as leverage against territorial sovereignty.

01:21Without us, right now, you'd all be speaking German and a little Japanese, perhaps.

01:33Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They should be grateful also, but they're not.

01:38Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that.

01:41Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory.

01:53This enormous, unsecured island is actually part of North America. That's our territory.

01:59In fact, the United States economy is on pace to grow, and not even close.

02:05We want a piece of ice for world protection, and they won't give it.

02:11They have a choice. You can say yes, and we will be very appreciative.

02:17Or you can say no, and we will remember.

02:21Thank you very much.

02:23What do you think about Emmanuel Macron's strategy?

02:29I'm quoting Emmanuel Macron.

02:31Pierre Macronon, who is the family of the Transformation.

02:33He has an absolute legend who's on the planet.

02:35He looks at the tree of the Southeast Asia.

02:37He's written in the forest.

02:39He has a debt of the、「owego's participation.

02:41He has a debt of田船, his generation of employees from the world and all people who are on the planet.

02:43He has a debt of his family.

02:45He has a debt of his family.

02:49He has a debt of his family.

02:51He has a debt of his family.

02:55He has a debt of his family, so he has a debt of his family.

02:57He has a debt of his family.

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