NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump regarding the security situation in Greenland and the Arctic between 4:47 p.m. and 5:17 p.m. UTC on January 18, 2026, according to an X post from @SecGenNATO. Rutte stated they will continue working on the matter ahead of a Davos meeting later this week. Rutte posted on X: "Spoke with @POTUS regarding the security situation in Greenland and the Arctic. We will continue working on this, and I look forward to seeing him in Davos later this week." U.S. Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) stated in the same 30-minute period, "If we're talking about Greenland, this is not art of the deal, this is more of a dating game. We need to be more on how we would be a partner, not more how we could be compulsory," according to an X post by @atrupar. These developments follow Iceland's endorsement earlier between 3:17 p.m. and 4:46 p.m. UTC of a joint statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom on Greenland, as reported on the German federal government website.
