Donald Trump has told Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Store that since he was denied the Nobel Peace Prize, he no longer feels obligated to “think purely of Peace.”
Store texted Trump over the weekend to discuss global security. He signed his message “Alex and Jon,” a reference to Finnish President Alexander Stubb.
The texts were made public by The New York Times.
Message from Store to Trump on Sunday, Jan. 18, 3:48 p.m.:
Dear Mr President, dear Donald – on the contact across the Atlantic – on Greenland, Gaza, Ukraine – and your tariff announcement yesterday. You know our position on these issues. But we believe we all should work to take this down and de-escalate – so much is happening around us where we need to stand together. We are proposing a call with you later today – with both of us or separately – give us a hint of what you prefer! Best – Alex and Jon
Text message from Trump to Store on Sunday, Jan. 18, at 4:15 p.m.:
Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a ‘right of ownership’ anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT
And there it is. Donald Trump’s Greenland fixation isn’t and hasn’t been about national security, China, Russia, mineral resources, or any other reason that he, the press, or our allies have suggested. It’s retribution because he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize.
As soon as I read that, I went to democracy.io and fired off a letter to my senators and congressman in Washington. They need to act, to take back their constitutionally assigned legislative power, their equal standing with the executive branch, and restrain Donald Trump, limit his power, or remove him from office altogether. My two senators are Democrats; my congressman is a Republican. But surely this is enough to move all three of them and the rest of Congress to action.
I’ve mentioned democracy.io in the past. It’s one quick stop to write to all three of your representatives in Congress. Fill in your address and it will immediately display your representatives’ names and a form to write a single letter to all three of them. Couldn’t be easier. Do it. Now. The insanity must stop.
It’s a shame that website won’t send a letter to everyone in Congress.
I just….
Leaves one speechless, doesn’t it
Just another Trump atrocity. Trump is Trump and I suppose we can’t really blame him for his poor addled brain.
I blame the Republican lawmakers in the Senate and House for the fact we now have to deal with Trump – those who were scared of him and who have miserably failed to live up to the oaths they took, while downplaying the dangers he clearly represented.
My state lacks national-level Republican lawmakers, and I see no use in appealing to Democrats to resolve things, but amid furor over Greenland, as a former U.S. diplomat, I plan to write to OP (= Old Party, no longer grand) members of the respective two houses’ foreign affairs committees. Maybe somebody out there still has a conscience, or a bit of courage.
No, we can’t blame an addled old person for being an addled old person. But the people who know that’s what he is and still aid and abet for their own selfish reasons deserve a special place in hell. The lot of them are endangering the US, both internally and internationally.
Go ahead and contact your lawmakers, regardless of party. It’s going to take a united Congress to do anything meaningful. Remind them all that there’s an election in November…
If the foreign affairs committees are the most directly responsible for dealing with this debacle, I’ll be looking for and contacting their members.
There is another group to blame, the 30-odd percent of my fellow citizens who persist in voting for DJT despite overwhelming evidence of not just incompetence but danger to the Republic. I look at them differently now, knowing that 1 in 3 are doing this.
Oh I was very much blaming them too when I spoke of aiding and abetting.
When a narcissist is wounded, he or she (in this case, he) never forgets (or forgives) the slight(s). That spells out everything one needs to know about the man occupying the office of president right now. Pure and simple, his actions towards anyone and everyone who have offended him are what he motivates him.
I hope that Congress takes back their Article 1 power as granted to them in the Constitution, but I wonder if anyone there has the backbone.
Well, he did declare “I am your retribution.” Subtle he is not.
His acceptance of the Nobel astounded me. Talk about the king with no clothes! I would not be surprised now if I were to see him wearing someone else’s Medal of Honor around his neck.
I assume he was delighted to receive Machado’s medal, but it’s clear from his text that he knows he hasn’t yet been officially named a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. If Machado’s medal weren’t framed, he probably would wear it all the time. And who knows, he may yet break it out of the frame and wear it all the time on a big red ribbon around his neck or across his chest.
I am keeping out of this very American correspondence, Colorado: it’s not my place, here on the blog of a friend, to be commenting when you are all so deeply and personally affected.
Your opinions are always welcome here. I hope you know that.
Meanwhile, as you might guess, we are absolutely mortified by practically everything our wannabe king says and does. He is humiliating us before the entire world, driving away allies, and endangering our future safety and well-being.