Left: President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2025. Right: Greenland’s flag flutters at Inussivik Hall in Nuuk, Greenland, April 6, 2021.(Leah Millis, Emil Helms/Reuters)
Using a bad tactic to pursue a counterproductive strategy, the president is now threatening to use tariffs as a weapon against countries that oppose his wish that the U.S. should take over Greenland.
With an eye, I imagine, to the Supreme Court, Trump has said that the U.S. “may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland because we need Greenland for national security.”
That is because presumably the administration would claim that its authority for any such tariffs derives from either the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) or Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act or both.
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