Trump Trade Team Set for Wild Ride as Boss Floats Denmark Levies
- President-elect escalates threats of economic coercion
- Incoming trade aides hold clashing views on deploying tariffs
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Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs on Denmark over its control of Greenland and musings about “economic force” to absorb Canada as a US state were a fresh reminder of how rocky executing the president-elect’s trade agenda could prove.
The unprecedented threats toward longstanding American allies underscored Trump’s freewheeling approach and appetite for risk as he pursues his pledge to usher in a manufacturing boom and eliminate US trade deficits. But aides within Trump’s team have wildly divergent views on how best to accomplish his vision — and already, infighting that mirrors the conflicts that bedeviled his first term have spilled into public view.