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Trump’s Retreat on Greenland Shows Limits Still Exist

January 25, 2026 at 8:09 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Karen Tumulty: “President Donald Trump’s spectacular back-down from his demand that the United States be given ownership of Greenland, in which he had threatened punishing tariffs and military force, has shown that guardrails still exist that are capable of constraining his wildest impulses.”

USA Today: With Trump-NATO deal, is Republicans’ Greenland headache over?

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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