It's the Brian Lear Show on WNYC.

Good morning again, everyone.

Happy Friday.

I'm Bridget Bergen, senior reporter in the WNYC and Gothamist Newsroom, sitting in for Brian today. Now, we'll talk about Greenland,

Denmark, and what it means for Europe when the United States starts threatening an ally.

For a long time, Denmark has been one of America's most dependable allies in Europe,

but in the second Trump term, the relationship is under real strain.

The president has repeatedly suggested the United States should take control of Greenland, a semi-itonomous

territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. And in Denmark and across Europe, leaders are no longer

treating that as just a provocation or a negotiating ploy.

Some NATO countries have even sent small numbers of troops to Greenland because the question

isn't just what Trump wants. It's what Europe does if the alliance itself starts to come apart.

Margaret Talbot is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She went to Copenhagen

to report on what this moment is doing to public opinion in Denmark, to European security thinking,

and to the idea that America and its allies are on the same side. The headline for that story is

Denmark is sick of being bullied by Trump. And Margaret Talbot

joins me now. Hey, Margaret. Welcome back to WNYC. Hi, Bridget. Glad to be here. I'm so glad to. And I'm curious,

what did it sound like in Denmark when you were reporting this out? How are people talking about

the United States right now?

Well, you know, Denmark is really kind of a special case because, as you said, it had an unusually close and friendly and admiring relationship with the U.S.

And I'm putting that in the past tense for now. Maybe it will change in the future.

But many people told me that

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