Trump claims the U.S. should control Greenland for Golden Dome missile defense, says Canada "lives because of the United States" in heated Davos remarks.

Donald Trump has claimed “ Canada lives because of the United States”, hitting out at prime minister Mark Carney during his speech to world leaders in Switzerland. The U.S. president addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos Wednesday, a day after the Canadian leader warned global diplomacy was currently in the “midst of a rupture”.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned, "We are in the midst of a repture, not a transition," in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "The middle powers must act together,

Carney evoked the landmark 1978 essay “The Power of the Powerless“ by former Czech freedom fighter Václav Havel, who eventually led the Velvet Revolution that led to free elections in his country in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall toppled the Soviet Union. Havel later received a hero’s welcome in Canada in 1999.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday that the country strongly opposed any tariffs being imposed by the U.S. to further President Donald Trump's aim of acquiring Greenland.

The Canadian leader warned that middle powers need to stand together or they’ll find themselves “on the menu.”

For most of his career, Mark Carney was the polished face of global cooperation, but on Tuesday at WEF 2026, that tone vanished. Less than a year into his term as Canada’s prime minister, Carney delivered a blunt assessment of global power politics: “the strong do what they can,