President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would charge a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland.

Trump said in a social media post that Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland would face the tariff and that it would climb to 25% on June 1 if a deal is not in place for “the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland” by the United States.

The threat of tariffs was a drastic and potentially dangerous escalation of a showdown between Trump and NATO allies, further straining an alliance that dates to 1949 and provides a collective degree of security to Europe and North America. The Republican president has repeatedly tried to use trade penalties to bend allies and rivals alike to his will, generating investment commitments from some nations and pushback from others such as China, Brazil and India.

It was unclear how Trump could impose the tariffs under U.S. law, though he could cite economic emergency powers that are currently subject to a U.S. Supreme Court challenge.

Trump said in his Truth Social post that his tariffs were retaliation for recent trips to Greenland by representatives from Britain, the Netherlands and Finland and for general opposition to his efforts to purchase the semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark. He has Greenland is essential for the “Golden Dome” missile defense system for the U.S., and has argued that Russia and China might try to take over the island.

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Republished with permission of the Associated Press.

Florida and other states can do more to test for and root out food contaminants according to First Lady Casey DeSantis.

During an appearance on Fox and Friends Weekend, DeSantis said that testing baby formulae for heavy metals was just the first of many moves in that direction, expressing confidence that other states will join Florida in doing the job that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will not.

“I’m calling around to all the states. I had a great conversation with the First Lady of Oklahoma. I’m like, man, what if we divide and conquer? What if Oklahoma and Georgia and Arkansas and everybody gets together and we start on a state level being force multipliers to the federal MAGA movement and the MAHA movement, then we can try to ensure that there’s some accountability on the front,” DeSantis said Saturday.

Florida’s Department of Health recently tested 24 formulas for contaminants, with 16 of them having at least one heavy metal that exceeded federal standards. Mercury was the most ubiquitous, followed by arsenic, cadmium, and lead.

The reason these adulterants are in food, DeSantis said, is because the federal government isn’t testing for them before they are marketed and sold.

“There really isn’t any preventative testing as it pertains to the foods before they wind up in our food supply. The FDA, they do a lot of postwork, right? If somebody finds a problem, there’s bacteria, salmonella, they’ll go in and investigate, but there are … thousands of products on the market. So to go in and test all of them, they would say is difficult. That’s where the states come in. That’s where we’re leading in the free state of Florida. We want to go out, proactively test baby formula, other things, like baby food or cereals. Get accountability on the front end so that we can encourage companies to find ways to not have any harmful chemicals in our foods.”