French President Emmanuel Macron continued his intervention into the matter of Greenland on Wednesday, pronouncing that the Arctic island is neither for sale nor for the taking. On Wednesday, the French leader hosted Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and the Prime Minister of Greenland Jens-Frederik Nielsen at the Élysée Palace in Paris. While they were cast as ordinary training exercises, the timing was clearly interpreted as a rebuff of President Trump and, therefore, the United States. Such tariffs were never put in place, however, with President Trump saying that they would be put on hold while negotiating terms of a plan put forward by NATO chief Mark Rutte. “President Trump is going to do what it takes to defend the American people, even when our allies are ignoring these glaring threats.”