Fox News Host’s Take On Europe’s Reaction To Trump Is Just Bonkers

If not letting it slide meant menacing NATO allies to overtake a semiautonomous Arctic island owned by Denmark, then Ingraham is absolutely right. (Yet Trump already has the right to expand its military defense there through a 1951 treaty if he’s so hell-bent on backing up his claim that Greenland needs protection from Russia and China.)

Ingraham accused European leaders of being “elites so snooty, they have to put on a show of defiance to save face.”

Airing an interview with Swedish Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson, however, actually blew up Ingraham’s point. Svantesson neatly summarized Europe’s stance without a meltdown in sight.

“I think it’s sad and totally absurd to have an American president who is blackmailing the rest of us, trying to get a piece of land or buy it and, through threats,” she said. “It’s a new low, so to speak. We will never back down.”

Trump announced on Truth Social that he had reached the “framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland.” That may have eased the anxiety of the stock market for a bit, but probably not of the allies he tried to intimidate.