Trump hints at possible Greenland deal at Davos
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Holiday Club. This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Celia Hatton, and in the early hours of Wednesday, January the 21st, these are our main stories. President Trump heads to the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland, saying he has a plan for Greenland that will make everyone happy. Snapchat's parent company settles a lawsuit with a 19-year-old woman who said she'd become addicted to the social media site. Also in this podcast... Nigeria's plan to revive oil drilling sparks outrage because of previous environmental damage. We start with President Trump. He's marked a year since returning to office. And to do so, he met White House journalists and gave a long and sometimes meandering speech touching on immigration, the stock market and the failings of the state of Somalia.
He even spoke about how he could have been a professional baseball player. When reporters finally got to ask him questions, he was quizzed about his desire to take over Greenland. And in response, he appeared to use softer language than in previous days. In answer to a question by the BBC's North America editor, Sarah Smith, he said he was going to work something out that would make NATO happy. If a consequence of your determination to take control of Greenland is the ultimate breakup of the NATO alliance. Is that a price you're willing to pay?
You mean the breakup of the NATO alliance? It's a very interesting question. So I think something's going to happen that's going to be very good for everybody. Nobody's done more for NATO than I have, as I said before, in every way. Getting them to go up to 5% of GDP was something that nobody thought was possible. And pay. At 2%, they weren't paying. At 5%, they are paying. And they're buying a lot of things from us. And they're giving them, I guess, to Ukraine. That's up to them. But they're giving them to whoever they're giving them to. But they're buying a lot. I think that we will work something out when NATO is going to be very happy and where we're going to be very happy. But we need it for security purposes.
We need it for national security and even world security. It's very important. How about it?
After the news conference, Mr. Trump boarded a plane to fly to Davos in Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum, where he's expected to face significant opposition to his plan for Greenland. Just before we recorded this podcast, Mr. Trump's plane had to turn around because of a minor electrical fault. He was due to change to another aircraft. As I've said, when he gets there, he'll face questions on Greenland. I asked Sarah Smith what she thought of President Trump's latest comments on that subject. He was telling us that there is a compromise to be found here that would make everybody very happy and that's going to work out well for everyone. Whilst at the same time, it's extremely difficult to see what that could be.
He was giving us no hint of it. He was asked during the press conference how far he is prepared to go over Greenland, and to that he just said, you'll find out. So it's difficult to know whether he is going to arrive in Davos, where he says he has lots of meetings lined up with world leaders specifically to talk about the Greenland issue, whether he is going to surprise us all with a deal that really would keep everybody happy, Or whether what he means is he won't be happy unless he has complete control of Greenland and he intends to persuade the rest of the world of the rightness of his position and then tell them that they're all very happy as a result of that. I mean, some have described today's speech as a warm-up act before the president encounters European leaders at the World Economic Forum.
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