President Trump Participates in a Signing Ceremony, Jan. 14, 2026

No, we're going to watch and see what the process is, but we were given a very good very good statement by people that are aware of what's going on.

Does this mean military action is that still off...

I hope there's no executions. Everybody was talking about a lot of executions would taking place today. We were just told no executions. I hope that's true, that's a big thing. Yes.

The Foreign Minister of Greenland, she said a while ago in a press conference in the Embassy of Denmark that she made very clear in the meeting that happened here in the White House what are their limits. She also said that it was a very respectful meeting. Are those limits going to be respected?

Well, we're going to see what happens with Greenland. We need Greenland for national security, so we're going to see what happens. They're going to brief me on the meeting right after this conference. In fact, the sooner I get you out, the faster I'm going to know exactly what happened. But we have a very good relationship with Denmark, as you know. We'll see, but you know we're doing the Golden Dome, we're doing a lot of things and we really need it. If we don't go in, Russia's going to go in and China's going to go in. And there's not a thing that Denmark can do about it, but we can do everything about it.

There's no more thing that Denmark can do than...

Well, we'll see. I mean look we're going to see what happens, but we need it. You know I'm not the first one. This was talked about in by President Truman and 40 years before President Truman they were talking about it. They've been talking about this for a hundred years. This is not anything so new. A lot of people don't realize that, but this was a hot subject probably not as hot as it is now, but it was a hot subject for a long time. We need it for national security and that includes for Europe. And I spoke with, as you know, Mark, the head of NATO and he really wants to see something happen.

Mr. President, on NATO, it's being reported that Health and Human Services released frozen funds to Planned Parenthood. I'm wondering why this happened and why Planned Parenthood is receiving any federal...

I don't know anything about it. Bobby, do you know anything about it?

What was the question?

It's being reported that frozen funds were released to Planned Parenthood in December by HHS. I'm wondering why that happened.

I have not... I have not heard that.

I have not heard that.

Mr. President, on NATO, right now it sounds like you are saying that you would potentially acquire Greenland by force. That would be a NATO country. Are you saying that? Would you do that?

No, you're saying that. No, you're saying that. You're saying that. I'm not... you're saying that.

Would you acquire them by force?

No, you're telling me that that's what I'm going to... you don't know what I'm going to do.

So what are the options then? The Danish Foreign Minister said that there's still fundamental differences after the meeting with Rubio and with the Vice President. Are you willing to leave the NATO alliance in order to get what you want with Greenland? What are the options right now?

Well, I wouldn't be telling you what I'm willing to do, certainly I'm not going to give up my options. But it's very important, Greenland's very important for the national security including of Denmark. And the problem is is not a thing that Denmark can do about it if Russia or China wants to occupy Greenland. But there's everything we can do about it. You found that out last week with Venezuela. There's everything we can do about things such as that, not going to happen. We're not, you know, I can't rely on Denmark being able to fend themselves off. You know they were talking about they put an extra dog and they were serious about this, they put an extra dog sled there last month. They added a second dog sled, that's not going to do the trick.

Denmark fought alongside the United States in both Afghanistan and Iran.

Thank you for telling me that, I appreciate it. But I have a very good relationship with Denmark and we'll see how it all works out. I think something will work out. Yes.

On Venezuela, Cabello, the de facto number two in Venezuela right now, he seemed pretty reluctant to work with the US and obviously he's...

Well, we just, they just gave us 50 million barrels of oil.

But is Cabello the number... the number two, the Venezuela security chief?

I know the number one we just had a great conversation today. And she's a terrific person. I mean she's somebody that we've worked with very well. Marco Rubio is dealing with her, I dealt with her this morning. We had a call, a long call. We discussed a lot of things and I think we're getting along very well with Venezuela.

Mr. President, the new Assistant Attorney General position dedicated to rooting out fraud in the...

Yeah, he's fantastic, the person is fantastic.

Who is it?

It's a he. I will tell you maybe within minutes, I mean I don't know if I'm... it's appropriate to say yet because we're going through a process. But we have chosen a person who's very tough, very smart, very fair.

You gave a speech yesterday in Michigan about how you recalibrated the American economy to work for workers, US auto factories. We've seen core inflations completely tamed, lower the trade deficits, lowest amounts since 2009. American exports are growing. But we're also all still waiting on the Supreme Court case for the tariffs. Given the success you've had in the first 12 months, what is at stake in this case, sir?

So, a little bit like whole milk, I can't believe we even have a case. This was a case started by very China-centric people and also anti-American people, frankly, people that don't want us to do well. Tariffs have helped us stop eight wars. They've helped us get the best trade numbers we've ever had. They've helped us get 18 trillion dollars brought into the country and maybe above all else they've given us tremendous national security. Just the threat of tariffs, you saw that just yesterday when I put tariffs on a certain country. We won't talk about that country, but you know who it is. Based on the fact that if you do business with that country, you know, it's going to make them it's going to bring them to the table a lot faster. So, we have made hundreds of billions of dollars with tariffs. We have very little inflation. Think of it, inflation's gone down and productivity, everything has gone up. We've never taken in money like we have. We've never had anywhere near 18 trillion dollars invested in our country, neither has any other country. It's the biggest number by maybe five times. Five times, not 5%. Five times. Nobody's ever seen numbers like this. We have plants going up, you know you mentioned I was in Michigan yesterday, I was at the Ford plant where they make the Ford 150. It's one of the original plants, it's was from before World War One, it's a giant plant. That plant was probably going to be closed and two years ago they were doing very poorly. And now they just announced yesterday that they're going to go 24 hours around the clock, three shifts, which they rarely do. That's Ford and Ford's having the best numbers they've ever had. General Motors having the best numbers they've ever had. Stellantis, which hasn't been here, is now investing billions, tens of billions of dollars on building in the country. We're building auto plants all over the country, we're building AI all over the country. We're leading China by a lot and a lot of it has to do with tariffs. That would be a very disappointing decision and especially since the people that are fighting me are people that want China to do well. And we're doing great against China, we're doing great against everybody. We're the hottest country anywhere in the world, as they say often. We're right now the hottest country anywhere in the world and a year and a half ago we were a dead country. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you for asking. Okay, thank you very much, folks. We're done. We're done. Let's go. Move cameras, move please. Thank you guys.