WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday touted “historic” trade deals with South Korea, Japan and European nations, calling them “our partners,” while reiterating his push to acquire Greenland, the Arctic territory of Denmark, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Trump delivered a speech during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, touching on what his administration has achieved since his return to the White House a year ago, while renewing criticism of the former Joe Biden administration. “We’ve made historic trade deals with partners covering 40 percent of all U.S. trade, some of the greatest companies in countries in the world. We have countries as our partners too — the European nations, Japan, South Korea,” he said. “They’ve gone into massive deals with us, especially on oil and gas, and these agreements raise growth and cause stock markets to boom, not only in the U.S. but virtually every country that came to make a deal because … when the United States goes up, you follow,” he added. Touching on his ambitions for the American control of
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