Donald Trump's speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, should have world leaders worried, a political analysist has claimed.
The speech given by the president earlier this week earmarked Greenland as a place of interest to the Trump administration but also highlighted that allied nations must be wary. Writing in The Mirror, Christopher Bucktin claimed the president's comments on the 2020 elections on a world stage were unprecedented, and were even more worrying when paired with repeated Greenland claims.
He wrote, "The Greenland rant alone should have terrified allies. Trump openly demanded 'right title and ownership' of foreign land, dismissed international law, mocked partners and framed military power as a personal bargaining chip. This is not how democracies behave. It is how strongmen talk."
Despite the comments Trump made on Greenland and the US's want for the area, it was a note made on the 2020 elections which worried Bucktin. He wrote, "When he turned to Ukraine, the speech slid fully into delusion.
"Trump claimed the war would never have happened if he had been president, insisted Vladimir Putin was holding back out of affection for him, and suggested global peace depends on his personal charm. Diplomacy reduced to ego massage.
"And then, because no Trump appearance is complete without it, he declared once again that the 2020 election was 'rigged'. At Davos. To the world. With no evidence. No details. Just the same lie, repeated endlessly in the hope that repetition might one day make it true.
"This wasn’t just embarrassing. It was dangerous. A US president telling an international audience that American democracy is fraudulent while promising prosecutions that exist only in his imagination is not strong leadership. It is instability on display."
Despite the interest in Greenland, Trump could be following a "pot of gold myth" according to one analyst. Speaking to CNN, the Jacob Funk Kirkegaard said, "If there was a ‘pot of gold’ waiting at the end of the rainbow in Greenland, private businesses would have gone there already.
"If given enough taxpayer dollars, private business would be willing to do almost anything. But is that a good foundation on which to purchase a territory? The answer is no in Greenland, just as it’s no in Venezuela."