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President Donald Trump expressed his displeasure over not being selected as the Nobel Peace Prize winner last year and linked it to his threats to take control of Greenland, in a letter sent to Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere over the weekend, according to multiple reports.
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According to both Bloomberg and Reuters, in his letter to the Norwegian leader, Trump wrote: “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,” the letter said.
The President then bashed Denmark, saying it cannot protect Greenland from Russia or China, and questioned its claim over the Arctic territory, saying: “There are no written documents; it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also.”
Trump ends the letter saying: “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”
According to PBS Newshour’s Nick Schifrin, the letter has been forwarded by the National Security Council staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington.
This is a developing story.