DONALD Trump now appears to have set his sights on Canada – as the US president leaks private chats with world leaders amid the Greenland row.
Trump shared an speaking with European allies including Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron – appearing to talk through plans on seizing his North American neighbour.
Trump has posted AI-generated pics of him organising a Canada takeoverCredit: Reuters
President Trump spoke with Euro leaders on plans to take Canada in another AI-generated spoofCredit: Truth Social
In the shocking picture, the US leader hosts a summit with Nato allies in the Oval Office.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Nato chief Mark Rutte sit in front of the American leader among others.
Trump talks next to a map of North and South America, where Canada, Venezuela and Greenland have US flags plastered over them.
The post is bound to sour relations between Washington and Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney.
The Canadian PM has already slammed Trump’s proposed takeover and is reportedly mulling deploying his own troops to Greenland.
The US president also went on to share screenshots of his messages with both Rutte and Macron.
In one set of texts posted on Truth Social, Nato Secretary General Rutte says: “Mr. President, dear Donald – what you accomplished in Syria today is incredible.
“I will use my media engagements in Davos to highlight your work there, in Gaza, and in Ukraine.
“I am committed to finding a way forward on Greenland. Can’t wait to see you.”
In private chats with Macron, the French president tells his US counterpart: “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.”
He then offers whip up a G7 meeting in Paris for Thursday and asks him to have a meal together before Trump heads back to the US.
Despite the warm dinner invitation, Trump has threatened to slap Macron’s wine and champagne industry with huge 200 per cent tariffs.
The move came in response to Macron reportedly snubbing Trump’s offer for him to join his new Board of Peace – an international initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts.
Trump said: “I’ll put a 200 percent tariff on his wines and champagnes.
“And he’ll join, but he doesn’t have to join.”
President Trump has also shared another mock-up image of himself – this time planting the US flag on Greenland in his latest threat to seize the coveted Danish island.
Trump posted Rutter’s message to him on social mediaCredit: Truth Social
The post is set to stoke tensions between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark CarneyCredit: AP
In the AI-generated drawing, Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, stand on Greenland planting an American flag in the ground.
A sign next to the group reads: “GREENLAND – US TERRITORY EST 2026.”
The US president has vowed there is “no going back” on his takeover plans – with scrambling European leaders now set to face him for crunch talks in Davos on Wednesday.
In a fresh round of claims to acquire the mineral-rich isle, Trump warned on Tuesday that Denmark “can’t protect” Greenland.
He claimed Nato allies would not “push back too much” on his words, while shrugging off European deployments to the territory as “not a military”.
President Trump said: “Nato has been warning Denmark for 20 years now… they’ve been warning Denmark about the Russian threat, it’s not only Russia, it’s also China.
“We have to have it. They have to have this done. They can’t protect it, Denmark.”
The US president has also announced he will be meet world leaders for crunch talks over Greenland in Davos on Wednesday.
Macron seen messaging Trump over text messageCredit: Truth Social
The French leader is planning to butter up the US president
Trump revealed he had held a “very good phone call” with Nato chief Mark Rutte, where the pair agreed to meet “various parties” at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
He said: “Greenland is imperative for National and World Security.”
“There can be no going back – On that, everyone agrees!”
He added: “We are the only POWER that can ensure PEACE throughout the World – And it is done, quite simply, through STRENGTH!”
The US president has also – this time aimed at British plans to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.
He said: “Shockingly, our ‘brilliant’ NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia, the site of a vital U.S. Military Base, to Mauritius, and to do so FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.”
He branded the move a “GREAT STUPIDITY” before explaining why this it was “another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired”.
Under the pact, Britain is expected to pay Mauritius £90million a year for 99 years to maintain a lease on the key military base at Diego Garcia.
Mark Carney is already mulling deploying Canadian troops to GreenlandCredit: AFP
Trump posted a fake image of himself planting a US flag on GreenlandCredit: Truth Social
Frantic EU leaders will hold an emergency summit in Brussels on Thursday as the Nato alliance hangs in the balance.
President Trump has also refused to rule out taking Greenland by force after revealing in a bombshell letter that his Nobel Peace Prize snub prompted him to push for a US takeover.
The US president said “no comment” when asked if he would .
He told NBC News: “Europe ought to focus on the war with Russia and Ukraine, because, frankly, you see what that’s gotten, them.
“That’s what Europe should focus on – not Greenland.”
Trump also confirmed that he will “100%” slap tariffs on European countries if he can’t .
Denmark’s foreign minister warned Trump that some “red lines that can’t be crossed”.
Lars Lokke Rasmussen said that tariff threats are “not the way forward”.
He told Sky News : “You can’t threaten your way to ownership of Greenland.
“You have a desire, you have a vision, you have a request, but you will never be able to achieve that by putting pressure on us.”
The US president also dismissed suggestions that Norway’s government does not hold sway over Nobel Peace Prize nominations.
Trump said: “Norway totally controls it, despite what they say. They like to say they have nothing to do with it, but they have everything to do with it.”
Danish troops are training in GreenlandCredit: Alamy
It comes after the note that caused President Trump’s was revealed.
Trump wrote: “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America.”
The tariffs, announced by the president in a Truth Social post on Saturday, will come into force on February 1, if a deal has not been done to secure the Danish island of Greenland for the US.
The taxes could rise to 25 per cent if Trump still does not have the island by June.
Frantic European leaders are to try and hit back at the tariff threats.
It follows spiralling fears over Nato’s future if the US tries to take the arctic island by force.
Get out your Green
By Jack Elsom
AMERICA would have to stump up half a trillion pounds to buy Greenland in the event of a sale.
Experts calculated a £520billion price based on the island’s strategic location, minerals and oil.
That is more than Ireland’s entire economy and would swallow up 85 per cent of the US annual defence budget.
It is much more than the £75million US President Harry Truman offered for the territory after World War Two, which works out at £1.2billion in today’s money.
The US president has insisted that his first choice would be to do a deal to buy the island from Denmark, but has refused to rule out military action to bring the territory under US control.
Yet Putin could use a , the tyrant’s ideologist has warned.
Alexander Dugin – dubbed Putin’s “brain” due to his influence in the Kremlin – wants Russia to reconstruct the Soviet Union by invading seven countries.
Dugin called for Russia to take Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan by force.
It comes after a that Greenland could even vote to join Russia, thought to be an attempt to goad the US president into invading the island.
Beijing has also responded to Trump’s latest threats to take Greenland, accusing the US of using a “China threat” as an excuse to annex the territory.
They said: “We urge the United States to stop using the so-called ‘China threat’ as an excuse to pursue its own interests.”
Trump has repeatedly claimed and has previously vowed to take the territory “the easy way” or “the hard way”.
Protests in Nuuk, Greenland, over Trump’s threatened annexationCredit: AP
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