U.S. President Donald Trump publicly shared a screenshot of a private message from French President Emmanuel Macron on his Truth Social account on Tuesday, escalating a trans-Atlantic dispute over Washington\u2019s push to take control of Greenland and raising the prospect of steep new trade measures against France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The screenshot\u2014titled \u201cA message from President Emmanuel Macron on behalf of France\u201d\u2014was described by multiple Macron aides as authentic, though they did not specify when it was sent. In the note, Macron addresses Trump directly: \u201cMy friend, we fully agree on Syria. We can do great work on Iran. I do not understand what you are doing in Greenland. Let\u2019s try to do something big.\u201d He proposes hosting a post-Davos meeting in Paris with G7 members and representatives from Ukraine, Denmark and Russia, followed by a dinner with Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Macron has been among the most forceful European critics of Trump\u2019s Greenland plan, urging the EU to prepare its strongest trade instruments in response and dispatching French troops to the island in support of Denmark\u2019s posture. Trump, for his part, signaled retaliation, saying he would move to impose a 200% tariff on French wine and champagne<\/strong> and that he does not want Macron included in a planned U.S.-led \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d overseeing Gaza reconstruction and governance\u2014an initiative Paris has warned could undercut the UN\u2019s role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The revelation of Macron\u2019s message and the tariff threat come as European governments rally around Denmark, while a bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation visits Nuuk to tamp down tensions. Trump has framed Greenland as a national-security priority for the United States and has said Washington will secure the island \u201cthe easy way or the hard way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" U.S. President Donald Trump publicly shared a screenshot of a private message from French President Emmanuel Macron on his Truth Social account on Tuesday, escalating a trans-Atlantic dispute over Washington\u2019s push to take control of Greenland and raising the prospect of steep new trade measures against France. The screenshot\u2014titled \u201cA message from President Emmanuel Macron […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7104,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions\/7104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}