Bessent: Greenland deal is ‘much more fulsome’ for the US
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that apotential Greenland dealbetween President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte would be a "much more fulsome for the United States."
Trump announced a "frameworkof a future deal with respect to Greenland" after meeting with Rutte at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
Trump backed off weeks of threats that he would use force to obtain Greenland and backtracked on imposing tariffs on European countries who opposed his takeover efforts. Questions remain on many critical details of the possible deal, including ownership of territory.
ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl asked if the deal was essentially the same agreement that's been in place since the 1950s.
"I promise you, the deal is not what we had before. It is much more fulsome for the United States." Bessent told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
Bessent also addressed Trump's threat to impose100% tariffson Canada if it moves ahead on a trade deal with China.
This month, Canada negotiated lower tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in exchange for lower import taxes on their farm products.
"We can't let Canada become an opening that the Chinese pour their cheap goods into the U.S.," Bessent said. "We have a USMCA agreement, but based off -- based on that, which is going to be renegotiated this summer, and I'm not sure what Prime Minister [Mark] Carney is doing here, other than trying to virtue-signal to his globalist friends at Davos. I don't think he's doing the best job for the Canadian people."
