As Trump races to a Greenland deal, the buck stops with the bond market

Published January 23, 2026 4:49am ET



President Donald Trump’s White House maintains he didn’t chicken out after demanding the United States take ownership of Greenland from Denmark. That was only ever a negotiating tactic, not an end goal, in their telling.

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