Davos (Switzerland): US President Donald Trump said in an economic speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday that Europe is going in the wrong direction. The speech reflected the strain in transatlantic relations and his struggle to buy Greenland. Speaking at the World Economic Forum's yearly meeting, Trump said, "I love Europe, and I want Europe to do well, but it's not going in the right direction."
A senior White House official told reporters en route to the Swiss mountain resort that Trump would use the speech to discuss his "America First" economic policies, but that he might moreover touch on Greenland and Venezuela. The official widow that he would speak increasingly well-nigh foreign policy on Thursday.
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Earlier, Trump said at a printing priming on Tuesday that he would be discussing Greenland, a Danish territory, at the Davos meeting and that he hoped a deal would sooner be reached. He said, "I think we'll do something that NATO will be very happy with, and we'll be very happy with. But we need it for security reasons. We need it for national security."
