Greenland
"We need Greenland. It's so strategic right now. Greenland is full of Russian and Chinese ships everywhere," Trump claimed on Sunday.
Since then, the same tone has been heard from Trump in several different interviews, as well as from his deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, among others. The island's leader responded by calling the US rhetoric “unacceptable” and “disrespectful.”
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, like several allied countries, is urging the US to stop its threats against Greenland.
Colombia
Colombian President Gustavo Petro is a “sick man” who manufactures cocaine and sells it to the United States, Trump claimed on Sunday. When asked if the United States might intervene militarily in Colombia as well, Trump replied that “that sounds good to me.”
Petro, in his youth a member of the Colombian M19 guerrilla, responded by saying he was ready to defend his country.
"I swore never to touch a gun again... but for my country I will take up arms again," he wrote on X.
Cuba
Cuba, a close ally of Venezuela, is "close to falling," according to Trump. Senator Marco Rubio, speaking about Cuba, called the island nation "a huge problem" on Sunday.
"If I lived in Havana and worked in the government, I would be worried," he warned on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"For Venezuela, and of course for Cuba, we are willing to sacrifice our lives," Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said.
Mexico
Donald Trump has repeatedly accused neighboring Mexico of not doing enough against drug cartels in the country.
On Sunday, he claimed that drugs are “flowing” through Mexico and that the United States “is going to have to do something about it.” At a press conference on Monday, President Claudia Sheinbaum defended her country.
Mexico is cooperating with the United States, including for humanitarian reasons, to prevent fentanyl and other drugs from reaching the population, especially young people, she said.
Sheinbaum also stated that she does not believe the United States is seriously considering an invasion of Mexico.
Iran
The regime in Iran, where major popular protests have raged for over a week, received a sharp warning from Trump this weekend.
"If they start killing people, as they have done in the past, I think they will be hit hard by the United States," he told reporters.
Already last week, Trump claimed that the US is ready (“locked and loaded”) to come to the protesters' rescue.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, responded that "the Islamic Republic will not yield to the enemy."
