Getted the answer from “Dear Donald” after 27 minutes
Published 00.10
Alex and Jonas wanted to talk to Donald.
They wrote a friendly message.
27 minutes later they received a huge response.
At 15.48 on Sunday, they pressed the button to send the message of “sticking together” to the American president.
“We suggest a conversation with you later today – with both of us or separately – please give us an indication of what you prefer,” the duo wrote.
At 16.15 – 27 minutes later – Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Finnish President Alexander Stubb received a response to the speech.
"Dear Jonas," Trump begins the letter, writing that he no longer feels obligated to think only about peace after he was not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
May have been misinformed
Politicians in Europe are now doing what they can to get Donald Trump to change his mind about the punitive tariffs that are now affecting eight European countries as the conflict over Greenland has escalated further.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said that the president "does not seem to have understood" why a number of countries, including Sweden, sent personnel to the military exercise in Greenland.
She told Trump that he should not see it as "anti-American."
In a conversation with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, he may have seen the light.
According to Sky News, Trump admitted to Starmer that he may have been misinformed about the operation - which he reportedly saw as a provocation against the United States.
“Extremely worrying”
While the president was speaking with some European heads of government on Sunday afternoon, he responded to a message from two others.
The response – which in its form and message is reminiscent of the way he usually communicates on Truth Social – had a great impact, to say the least.
The letter has prompted many of Trump’s critics, both on the liberal and conservative sides, to demand that his administration activate the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and have him removed from office, writes Newsweek.
And his political opponents are angry.
“I can’t understand how you can be a serious person and not see this as extremely worrying. He is not stable at all and has a distorted perception of reality. He has always been a bit like that, of course, but now he is 80 years old,” writes Brian Schatz, a Democratic senator from Hawaii, on X on Monday after the news of the exchange of letters between the United States and Norway became known.
Don't want Greenland
And the opposition in Congress is not alone in seeing the results on Greenland as a bad idea.
At the same time, a CBS News poll shows that 86 percent of all Americans surveyed, including 70 percent of Republicans in the poll, are against a military operation to take over Greenland.
70 percent of Americans in the poll are also against the US buying Greenland.
But in his letter to the Nordic heads of government, Trump stands by his demands.
This is what Støre and Stubb wrote on Sunday afternoon:
Reply after 27 minutes
"Dear Mr. President, dear Donald –
about the contact across the Atlantic – about Greenland, Gaza, Ukraine – and your customs statement yesterday. You know our position on these issues. But we believe that we should all work to mitigate and de-escalate the situation – so much is happening around us where we need to stand united.
We suggest a conversation with you later today – with both of us or separately – please give us an indication of what you prefer.
With kind regards,
Alex and Jonas"
27 minutes later, my inbox pinged:
“Dear Jonas:
Considering that your country chose not to award me the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping 8 wars PLUS, I no longer feel obligated to think only in terms of peace, although that will always be dominant, but can now also think about what is good and right for the United States of America.
“Done more for NATO than anyone else”
Denmark can’t protect that area from Russia or China, and why do they have any “ownership” at all? There are no written records—the only thing is that a boat ended up there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats there too.
I’ve done more for NATO than anyone else since the organization’s founding, and now NATO should do something for the United States. The world is not safe unless we have complete and total control of Greenland.
Thank you!
President DJT”
Støre said in a statement after the exchange of letters became known that he had “explained to the president on several occasions that the Nobel Committee is independent and that the Norwegian government does not select the laureates”.
That does not give Trump much credit.
– Norway has total control over it regardless of what they say. They say they have nothing to do with it, but they have everything to do with it, the president told NBC News on Monday.
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