President Donald Trump greets Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, upon his arrival on the White Home, Thursday, April 24, 2025, in Washington.
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President Trump says his controversial push for U.S. management of Greenland comes after he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize final yr, including he not feels obliged to suppose solely of peace.
In a message to Norway’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre on Sunday evening, Trump criticized the European nation for not giving him the prize.
“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,” Trump stated within the message.
“The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland,” Trump added. The message was reported by PBS NewsHour, and was later confirmed by Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in a assertion.
Gahr Støre stated he acquired the message on Sunday in response to a textual content he and Finland’s President Alexander Stubb had despatched to Trump, through which that they had conveyed opposition to Trump’s proposed tariff will increase on eight European nations over the current Greenland dispute, and pointed to the necessity to de-escalate.
“Norway’s position on Greenland is clear. Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and Norway fully supports the Kingdom of Denmark on this matter,” Gahr Støre stated. “We also support that NATO in a responsible way is taking steps to strengthen security and stability in the Arctic.”
Gahr Støre additionally identified that whereas President Trump claimed that Norway “decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize,” the federal government of Norway will not be accountable for the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded by a 5 member Norwegian Nobel Committee since 1901.
The Danish navy’s inspection ship HDMS Vaedderen sails off Nuuk, Greenland, on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026.
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The Peace Prize, which was final awarded to Venezuela’s opposition chief Maria Corina Machado, can be awarded for the earlier yr. Meaning the newest prize was awarded for 2024, earlier than President Trump commenced his second time period of workplace. Machado gave Trump her prize final week as a symbolic thanks for his current actions in Venezuela.
The message to Gahr Støre comes as tensions rise between Europe and the US over the standing of Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark that’s strategically necessary and wealthy in assets.
On Monday, the World Financial Discussion board stated officers from Denmark wouldn’t be attending the assembly in Davos, Switzerland, this week. “We can confirm that the Danish government will not be represented in Davos this week,” a spokesperson, Alem Tedeneke, informed NPR.
On Sunday, in a collective rebuke to President Trump, the leaders of Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK issued a joint assertion condemning current U.S. tariff threats. The eight nations, that are all members of NATO, stated that Trump’s proposed tariffs “undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral.”
On Saturday evening, President Trump had written on his Reality Social social media platform that he would impose tariffs on imports from the nations, after that they had deployed restricted navy personnel to Greenland to take part in a Danish-led Arctic train often known as ‘Arctic Endurance.’
Trump stated America would levy a ten% tariff on items from the eight nations beginning on Feb. 1, which might rise to 25% on June 1, and stay in place “until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland” by the US.
The open dispute comes after weeks of more and more assertive U.S. rhetoric relating to Greenland, through which Trump has repeatedly stated that Greenland is strategically very important to U.S. nationwide safety, citing its location and untapped mineral deposits.
In his textual content message, Trump questioned Denmark’s proper to say Greenland. “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,” Trump stated.
Trump made related feedback final week, saying “the fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn’t mean that they own the land,” drawing mirth on social media, with comedians like Jon Stewart noting on The Day by day Present “how do you think we got our land?”
