Allies push back as Trump's temperament enters Foreign policy

Allies are no longer quiet, the tone has shifted, and it has shifted in public.

- ABHINANDAN MISHRA

President Donald Trump with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. (File photo)

‘A Danish member of the European Parliament, Anders Vistisen told the President of the United States Donald J Trump to “fuck off” during a debate on Greenland and was cut off mid-sentence.

Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark, stood at the center of this storm, declaring that any move toward a U.S. takeover of Greenland would mark the “end of NATO.” She described the administration's demandsas an “absurd discussion,” making it clear that Danish sovereignty is not a commodity. Bart De Wever, Prime Minister of Belgium, went even further at Davos, warning that Europe cannot bea “miserable slave” and that eight decades of Atlanticism may be nearing its end.

Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany, dismissed attempts by the Trump administration to link trade and security to coercive leverage, labeling the new tariffs.a “path that produces only losers.”

Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, declined to align with President Trump's rhetoric on Europe and Greenland, while Emmanuel Macron, President of France, spoke of “new colonialism’ and “useless aggressivity,” asserting that he prefers “rule of law to brutality.”