Trump’s fragile Greenland ‘framework’ with NATO
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, US President Donald Trump announced that a “framework” for a future deal on Greenland is taking shape. Tied to missile defense and mineral rights, the framework eases concerns about Trump's earlier threats of tariffs and military intervention. So, how would an eventual deal affect the future of Greenlanders and US-Europe relations?
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- Jonah Hull, Al Jazeera Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Sarí el-Khalili, Tamara Khandaker, Melanie Marich, Marcos Bartolomé, and our guest host, Kevin Hirten. It was edited by Kylene Kiang.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, Trump's epic climb down on Greenland as he reaches a framework with NATO. |
| 0:17.0 | Donald Trump says he and the head of NATO have agreed to the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland. |
| 0:24.8 | What is it like for Greenlanders to see their future decided from thousands of kilometers away? |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Kevin Horton, and this is the take. |
| 0:42.4 | Thank you. and this is the take. As you're watching today's show, |
| 0:44.1 | remember to leave us a comment |
| 0:45.3 | telling us what you think about this episode. |
| 0:47.3 | We really do read them. |
| 0:48.5 | There's some great comments, |
| 0:49.7 | like we got one on our previous Greenland episode |
| 0:52.0 | from Saeed to Dajdi. |
| 0:53.7 | He said, greetings from Iran. |
| 0:55.7 | Thank you for making this rich and eye-opening podcast. |
| 0:58.7 | I had very little knowledge of Greenland. |
| 1:00.7 | Shamefully, I didn't even know it had its own name. |
| 1:04.1 | Call it Nuhnott. |
| 1:05.3 | That's what you learn from watching the take. |
| 1:10.2 | My name is Jonah Hull. I'm a correspondent, of course, with Al Jazeera English News. |
| 1:15.9 | You catch me here in Greenland, in the capital, Nuke, where I've been for a few days, |
| 1:21.2 | covering the story as Donald Trump appears to, you know, heighten, endlessly heighten his rhetoric about wanting to take over this island by force or other means, |
| 1:32.9 | and then suddenly changed his mind addressing delegates in Davos, so a rocky period on a huge and rocky island in the Arctic. |
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