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From Nick Schifrin of PBS' Newshour: """ NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC

From Nick Schifrin of PBS' Newshour: """ NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials: Dear Ambassador: President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state] "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" """ * https://twitter.com/nickschifrin/status/2013107018081489006#m https://twitter.com/nickschifrin/status/2013107018081489006#... * https://xcancel.com/nickschifrin/status/2013107018081489006#m https://xcancel.com/nickschifrin/status/2013107018081489006#...

AnimalMuppet 9mo ago
"I have done more for NATO than any person since founding"? And, how would Denmark protect that land from Russia or China? By being part of NATO. And, he thinks the Prime Minister of Norway decides who gets the Nobel Peace Prize? I mean, it's chosen by a committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway, so the Prime Minister probably has some influence, but I presume it is not a direct decision. This is the most arrogant, out-of-touch thing I have seen from Trump yet. Appalling.
- aebtebeten 9mo ago
  at the moment, I think De Gaulle has done way more for NATO ;)
  - gsf_emergency_6 9mo ago
    Lol. This parallels how, if your fellow countryman Schmidhuber was right about how he'd invented Transformers (although in the exact opposite way, whether that work ought to have gotten any attention, at all, from Americans :) The world would not be in this (emotive, viz economic) pickle right about now --or indeed quite soon, in technological "reality" U after circling back here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JloHHqV5tWQ&lc=Ugxbt5tyiSVxFGK_x814AaABAg&t=46m36s https://youtube.com/watch?v=JloHHqV5tWQ&lc=Ugxbt5tyiSVxFGK_x... See, eg, newest comments. (Only timestamping the gender issue here because both of you seemed to have flinched upon that.. note how both yt interlocutors seem to have been _making intermittent side glances_ at this same elephant in the room) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483761 Compare the trad separation of 商 from 官* tell me I'm wrong for singling out Stanford :) Poor BruceLittleBoy TT *Money made by those who value loyalty+decisions made by those who value nothing what! Peace, Thucydides, over!
    - aebtebeten 9mo ago
      aut 商 aut 官? I'd say "Systems of Survival" certainly called this US administration. Aside: IIRC a few members of the House of Berndadotte have reliquished 官-dom in order to better pursue 商-dom. (end of aside) (is part of the brouhaha over Netflix that it can show that parts of the world outside the US are not just NPCs?)
      - gsf_emergency_6 9mo ago
        Aha placeholder on "enpiccy" ("enpissy"?), as well as .. https://youtu.be/sdi1ISvngrg https://youtu.be/sdi1ISvngrg (Wolf in fox body?) Commenter says Padre Lauro but I haven't looked that up yet
        aebtebeten 9mo ago
        muito obrigado! > “They tried to put me on the cover of [Vogue]. But my legs were toooooo long.”
- netsharc 9mo ago
  The bar is so low, that it's just flabbergasting and not even serious-discussion-worthy that the PM of Norway has to today deal with what is on the level of a McDonald's manager getting a misdirected complaint about a Whopper from a Karen... A Karen that commands the most potentially destructive military force on the planet with his tiny fingers... If Biden had sent such a memo, everyone would've talked about how his IQ must have gone as low as the temperature in Oslo...
  - fuzzfactor 9mo ago
    >on the level of a McDonald's manager getting a misdirected complaint about a Whopper Sir, you win the internet today. Makes me appreciate that it's not a Wendy's ;)

AnimalMuppet 9mo ago

"I have done more for NATO than any person since founding"? And, how would Denmark protect that land from Russia or China? By being part of NATO. And, he thinks the Prime Minister of Norway decides who gets the Nobel Peace Prize? I mean, it's chosen by a committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway, so the Prime Minister probably has some influence, but I presume it is not a direct decision. This is the most arrogant, out-of-touch thing I have seen from Trump yet. Appalling.

aebtebeten 9mo ago
at the moment, I think De Gaulle has done way more for NATO ;)
- gsf_emergency_6 9mo ago
  Lol. This parallels how, if your fellow countryman Schmidhuber was right about how he'd invented Transformers (although in the exact opposite way, whether that work ought to have gotten any attention, at all, from Americans :) The world would not be in this (emotive, viz economic) pickle right about now --or indeed quite soon, in technological "reality" U after circling back here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JloHHqV5tWQ&lc=Ugxbt5tyiSVxFGK_x814AaABAg&t=46m36s https://youtube.com/watch?v=JloHHqV5tWQ&lc=Ugxbt5tyiSVxFGK_x... See, eg, newest comments. (Only timestamping the gender issue here because both of you seemed to have flinched upon that.. note how both yt interlocutors seem to have been _making intermittent side glances_ at this same elephant in the room) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483761 Compare the trad separation of 商 from 官* tell me I'm wrong for singling out Stanford :) Poor BruceLittleBoy TT *Money made by those who value loyalty+decisions made by those who value nothing what! Peace, Thucydides, over!
  - aebtebeten 9mo ago
    aut 商 aut 官? I'd say "Systems of Survival" certainly called this US administration. Aside: IIRC a few members of the House of Berndadotte have reliquished 官-dom in order to better pursue 商-dom. (end of aside) (is part of the brouhaha over Netflix that it can show that parts of the world outside the US are not just NPCs?)
    - gsf_emergency_6 9mo ago
      Aha placeholder on "enpiccy" ("enpissy"?), as well as .. https://youtu.be/sdi1ISvngrg https://youtu.be/sdi1ISvngrg (Wolf in fox body?) Commenter says Padre Lauro but I haven't looked that up yet
      - aebtebeten 9mo ago
        muito obrigado! > “They tried to put me on the cover of [Vogue]. But my legs were toooooo long.”
netsharc 9mo ago
The bar is so low, that it's just flabbergasting and not even serious-discussion-worthy that the PM of Norway has to today deal with what is on the level of a McDonald's manager getting a misdirected complaint about a Whopper from a Karen... A Karen that commands the most potentially destructive military force on the planet with his tiny fingers... If Biden had sent such a memo, everyone would've talked about how his IQ must have gone as low as the temperature in Oslo...
- fuzzfactor 9mo ago
  >on the level of a McDonald's manager getting a misdirected complaint about a Whopper Sir, you win the internet today. Makes me appreciate that it's not a Wendy's ;)