President Donald Trump’s reported Greenland escalation hinges on a single claim: because Norway “decided not to give” him a Nobel Peace Prize for “having stopped 8 Wars PLUS,” he says he is no longer obligated to think “purely of Peace” and can prioritize what he calls what is “good and proper for the United States of America.”
PBS journalist Nick Schifrin posted that he obtained the full text “from multiple officials,” describing it as a “@potus letter to @jonasgahrstore” that links the Nobel Prize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and was forwarded by National Security Council staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington.
Schifrin’s post frames the content as a formal relay: “Dear Ambassador,” followed by a directive that Trump asked the message shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre be forwarded to a named European head of government or state.
Trump reportedly argues Denmark “cannot protect that land from Russia or China,” challenges Denmark’s legitimacy by saying there are no written documents, and reduces Denmark’s basis for sovereignty to the idea that “a boat landed there hundreds of years ago,” adding the US also had boats landing there.
Trump presents Greenland as an alliance issue, stating he has done more for NATO than any other person since NATO’s founding, then asserting NATO “should do something for the United States.”
“The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland,” Trump reportedly said, ending with “Thank you! President DJT.”
Despite these pronouncements, the Nobel Peace Prize is decided by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a five-member body appointed by Norway’s parliament but operating as an independent committee in Oslo. The most recent winner is María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan political leader who opposed President Nicolas Maduro. Amid insinuations that Trump doesn’t want to hand over the leadership to Machado following Maduro’s arrest during the US takeover of the country because of the Nobel, Machado physically handed Trump her medal recently. However, the Nobel Committee clarified the honor cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred.
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