Trump tells world leaders: ‘Europe is not heading in the right direction’

U.S. President Donald Trump said connected Wednesday immoderate areas of Europe are nary longer recognizable — and that the continent was "not heading successful the close direction."

Trump lauded what helium described arsenic economical maturation "like nary state has ever seen before" successful the U.S. during his highly-anticipated code astatine the World Economic Forum successful Davos, Switzerland.

"Friends travel backmost from antithetic places – I don't privation to insult anybody – and say, I don't recognise it. And that's not successful a affirmative way, that's successful a precise antagonistic way," Trump said.

"I emotion Europe and I privation to spot Europe spell good, but it's not heading successful the close direction."

His code comes aft planetary leaders condemned his assertive attack to seeking to annex Greenland, which helium said helium would question "immediate" negotiations over.

Market participants and galore U.S. allies raised the alarm astir his Greenland position, including astatine Davos.

Trump, who has agelong advocated for making the Arctic land a portion of the U.S., antecedently insisting determination is "no going back" connected acquiring it from Denmark. He threatened to enforce a rising question of tariffs connected 8 European countries if they proceed to reason his plans.

The U.S. president's progressively assertive Greenland rhetoric has ratcheted up trans-Atlantic tensions, with French President Emmanuel Macron informing of a displacement to "a satellite without rules" and decrying "bullies," without mentioning Trump by name.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Davos connected Tuesday that the "old bid is not coming back" and warned "nostalgia is not a strategy."

Carney said the caller bid was "a strategy of intensifying large powerfulness rivalry wherever the astir almighty prosecute their interests utilizing economical integration arsenic coercion."

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