Trump Doubles Down on Greenland

Amanpour

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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President Donald Trump is doubling down on his threats to annex Greenland and has said he will impose tariffs on European countries who do not support his ambitions. Europe is weighing its options, including a so-called "Trade Bazooka," which would block some US access to EU markets and impose export controls. So what do Greenlanders think about all this? International reporter Nic Robertson joins the show from Nuuk with the details. Also on today's show: Heather Conley, Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; Sir Peter Westmacott, Former UK Ambassador to the US; Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law, UCLA & Columbia University / Executive Director, African American Policy Forum; former January 6th Capitol riot senior prosecutor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.6	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. Greenland is not for sale. Greenland is ours.
0:42.3	Greenland and Europe's dilemma.
0:45.3	Appease President Trump or fight back. We'll get perspective from Greenland's capital, Nuk.
0:50.3	And I'll discuss what's next with a former top UK diplomat and a U.S. Arctic security
0:56.5	expert. Then, as America remembers Martin Luther King Jr., is the U.S. protecting the values
1:03.0	of justice and equality that he fought for. Civil rights advocate Kimberly Crenshaw joins me.
1:09.3	Plus, starting with the target and then working
1:12.9	backwards to try and figure out what crime they might be able to charge. A former January 6th prosecutor
1:18.8	tells Hari Srinivasin how Trump has weaponized the U.S. Justice Department to pursue personal grudges.
1:43.7	Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Bianca-Gal- Drega in New York, sitting in for Christiana Ammanpur.
1:47.5	Europe is scrambling and Donald Trump is doubling down. The U.S. President locked in an all-out
1:53.2	offensive as he tries to annex Greenland with the whole world watching. Trump says he will slap tariffs
1:59.4	on European countries who don't support his
2:01.2	ambitions. And now, in an extraordinary text message to the leader of Norway, he writes that,
2:07.0	since Norway decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize, I no longer feel an obligation to think
2:12.8	purely of peace. That comment in reference to his ambitions for Greenland. In the face of these extraordinary
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