Well, sometimes we just can’t have nice things. And nowhere does that feel more true than when Trump Greenland takeover plan went underway. 

Quick sidebar: he does know Greenland isn’t some lush, farm-friendly alpine paradise, right? About 80% of it is literally an ice sheet. Like… aggressive freezer burn levels of ice.

Anyways, what started as an already jittery Tuesday quickly turned into a geopolitical sh*tstorm featuring Europe, Greenland, Japan’s bond market, and a White House press conference that absolutely did not calm any fears.

By the close, U.S. stocks were eviscerated.

The Dow lost more than 800 points (-1.7%). The S&P 500 slid 2%. The Nasdaq got smoked for over 2.4% as investors decided that this (right now) felt like a great time to take risk off the table and walk away slowly.

Why? Because President Donald Trump decided the fastest path to world peace apparently runs straight through Greenland… and maybe a few tariffs on the way. (Hope you’re ready for round two.)

Over the weekend (while you were probably watching Josh Allen and C.J. Stroud attempt to rewrite the interception record) Trump floated the idea that eight NATO countries could face fresh 10% import duties unless the U.S. cut a deal to acquire the Danish territory.

Then Monday rolled around. And because the man does not believe in days off, he doubled down.

That’s when the EU fired up the retaliation calculator and suddenly Brussels was talking about $108 billion in counter-tariffs, plus an “anti-coercion instrument” that could theoretically torch $8 trillion worth of U.S. assets. (Fear mongering at it’s finest).

But wait… there’s more.

Trump then threatened a 200% tariff on French wine after President Macron declined an invite to join Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace.” Because obviously France’s entire economy runs on fermented grape juice. Who knew?

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (what a name) promised the EU’s response would be “unflinching, united, and proportional,” while Greenland’s prime minister told citizens to prepare for a possible invasion (as if Donnie Warrior is gonna get in his tank tomorrow and attack Nuuk (Greenland’s capital) at dawn).

Markets, understandably, hated every second of this. Treasury yields catapulted to four-month highs after a Japan-led bond sell-off spilled straight into U.S. debt. And you already know what kind of environment that creates… prime “God’s Money” conditions. So while the rest of us got absolutely wrecked, gold popped 1.6% and silver ripped nearly 3%, giving precious-metal bugs their favorite excuse to log on and brag.

And of course… Big Tech was first to get yeeted off a cliff.

Nvidia (-4%) and Broadcom (-5%) led AI stocks lower as investors rotated out of anything that smells remotely bubbly. Meanwhile, Apple took another punch to the jaw after Citi lowered its price target, citing rising memory chip costs. Yes, even the $2,000 foldable iPhone dreams couldn’t save the stock today.

Trump, who’s set to speak at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, insists tariffs remain the “fastest and easiest” path forward. When asked how far he’s willing to go to acquire Greenland, his response was predictably ominous:

“You’ll find out.”

Well, markets did and they absolutely hated it. Needless to say, tomorrow better bring clarity… because today brought none.

If you read all of this, congrats for having a 10 second attention span (better than me). As always, here’s our heatmap for today.

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