{"id":139131,"date":"2026-01-25T08:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=139131"},"modified":"2026-01-25T08:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:14:12","slug":"trumps-greenland-ambitions-strain-maga-ties-with-europes-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/trumps-greenland-ambitions-strain-maga-ties-with-europes-far-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Greenland ambitions strain MAGA ties with Europe\u2019s far-right"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tensions over\u00a0U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a><\/span>\u00a0plans to\u00a0take control of Greenland<\/a><\/span>\u00a0have driven a wedge in the once iron-clad link between MAGA and Europe\u2019s far-right.<\/p>\n

The rift seems to signal that ideological alignment alone may not be enough to temper worries among European nationalists over Trump\u2019s interventionism abroad.<\/p>\n

Far-right leaders in Germany, Italy and France have strongly criticized Trump\u2019s Greenland plans. Even Nigel Farage,\u00a0a longtime ally of Trump and head of the Reform UK nationalist party<\/a><\/span>, called Trump\u2019s Greenland moves \u201ca very hostile act.\u201d<\/p>\n

During a debate Tuesday in the European Parliament, far-right lawmakers typically aligned with Trump overwhelmingly supported halting a EU-U.S. trade pact over their uneasiness with his threats, calling them \u201ccoercion\u201d and \u201cthreats to sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tensions over\u00a0U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0plans to\u00a0take control of Greenland\u00a0have driven a wedge in the once iron-clad link between MAGA and Europe\u2019s far-right. The rift seems to signal that ideological alignment … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,58,5,47],"tags":[1445,2779,1784,800],"class_list":["post-139131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-continental-europe","category-government","category-news","category-north-america","tag-far-right","tag-greenland","tag-trade-deals","tag-trump"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}