Name: Trump posts private messages from leaders about Greenland
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President Trump leaks what he says are private messages from European leaders concerned over his threats to annex Greenland.

The message from French President Emmanuel Macron.

I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.

Naito Secretary General Mark Rook tells Trump he is committed to finding a way forward on Greenland.

In the meantime, Trump gets a face to face with the two leaders tomorrow in Davos for the World Economic Force Forum.

He and his team expressing optimism and urging leaders to calm down in the face of his threats.

I don't think they're going to push back too much.

We've always been able to work through our differences calmly as friends.

I want to assure you this morning that that is still the case.

But Denmark has a strong warning for the President.

If there is an invasion by American troops, it would be a war and we would be fighting against each other.

We know that the Americans are stronger than us, and you have a much stronger military than ours.

But it is our duty to defend our land and our people.

Joining me now in the group chat, Zach Wolfe, CNN Politics senior writer Chuck Rocha, Democratic strategist and former senior adviser to the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns.

And Kristen Soltis Anderson, CNN political commentator and Republican strategist and pollster.

I believe that Mike Johnson actually addressed the UK Parliament, vowing to calm tensions.

I want to play this for you because he also went on Nigel Farage's show and was asked directly about the pursuit of Greenland and what Trump is doing.

And Farage is, of course, known as being an ally of Trump.

This is, I mean, this is the biggest fracture in our relationship between our two countries since Suez in 1956.

And you're here about to speak before Parliament.

I mean, is there nothing that can be done here?

Well, I'm here to encourage our friends and calm the situation.

Look, I think we're going to get beyond this little rift.

I don't think it's a threat to NATO or to this special relationship that we have in the long run, which kind of flies against these texts that have been released.

Well, first of all, Mike Johnson, little rift.

He sounds completely different than the president on this, and so does Bessen.

Yeah, I mean, they are saying something completely different in those text messages.

Why would Trump release these they were showing the little rift that Mike Johnson was talking about.

maybe this is what he was trying to do, the sort of deference that the world leaders are showing him.

Macron, let's do dinner on Thursday and talk this out kind of a thing.

So Trump is showing that he' sthey're still being nice to him and coming to him.

Well, it shows them, I think Macron, who actually has spoken quite strongly saying that, hey, maybe Europe should use its own economic nuclear option to kind of go after the US what do you guys see and how this is playing out now that they've actually landed in Europe and actually have to have these conversations face to face.

I mean, to me this is, it is baffling on a number of levels.

It's even not that popular with Trump's own base, the idea of engaging in military activity in Greenland.

But what it really is, I think is Donald Trump, his real estate guy, I want to acquire territory and assets, is coming out in full force.

I think he thinks that these, like tough mafia style tactics are how you negotiate a better deal.

But I'm really glad to see that at least right now.

I mean, this in some ways feels a little reminiscent of Trump's first term when he would say and do things and there were like a number of adults in the room that would be like, let's maybe not do that.

We actually haven't seen as much of that this term, the adults or, well, the attempt from within his own party, his own cabinet, to sit and try to constrain or contain him.

They are realizing this one is way too far.

And the American electorate coming up less than a year from the midterms are kind of where Macron is.

But Greenland, yeah, that's where the American public is.

The CNN polling was showing that independents, something like 82% oppose the green Lane conversation.

And we're not talking about gas and groceries and regular things as we move towards the summer.

I want to play one more thing for you, Don Bacon, who's been on a roll since, you know, he's in a YOLO situation.

He was saying that he is, of course, very against this.

One word the other way, whether it's even Republican control or if It's Democrat control after November.

I think it's invading ally to me is a high crime and misdemeanor.

And we have a treaty, we have the NATO agreement.

And so it would be basically severing this whole agreement and invading an ally, a democracy.

I guess he's just saying it on the way out.

I just want to say something quick before folks give commentary on this so everybody at home understands who Don Bacon is.

There's only three congressional races in America that a Republican currently occupies that Kamala Harris won, and

this guy's in one of them and he's retiring.

Joining us now live from Paris is CNN senior international correspondent Melissa Bell.

Melissa, give us a sense of what the dialogue appears to be between Trump and Macron.

It seems that that relationship is souring.

First of all, the idea of that meeting tomorrow in Davos, Rahel of the American president with a number of those European leaders involved in the defense of Greenland promises to be pretty frosty.

Wouldn't you love to be in a corner of that room to hear the tone?

Because in the meantime, there is no suggestion that either side is backing down over the question of the future of Greenland, nor of the question of tariffs and retaliationary tariffs on the part of the Europeans.

Said what you've had is this war of words this morning between the French and American presence.

It seems it isn't simply on the question of Greenland and the tariffs and the countermeasures being prepared by Europe, but

on the question of the Council for Peace that you'll remember.

President Trump sent invitations out 2 to 60 or so world leaders over the course of the weekend to try and oversee the reconstructure of Gaza, but

in a sort of enlarged format that it would see it sort of rival the UN in terms of its ability to try and ensure peace in different parts of the world.

We understand that the French president, amongst others, have refused, declined the invitation to join this board of peace, an invitation, by the way, also extended to the Russian president.

In response to that, you heard the American president threaten the French with 200% tariffs on their wines and champagne.

So no suggestion that these threats of tariffs being used as a tool for international diplomacy is going to anywhere.

Nor indeed that you can expect the European response to be anything other than frosty by the time the leaders meet tomorrow in Davos.

On the question of Greenland, what we're seeing is a reinforcement of troops on the part of the Danes, largely symbolic, but

certainly as a strong signal to Washington that Europeans intend to stand firm on the future of the Arctic island.

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