Trump Warns he May Have to Attack Greenland Because Norway Did Not Give him a Peace Prize
There are high risks to not giving a boy emperor what he wants.
Never mind that Norway has nothing to do with Greenland. It belongs to a different bunch of Vikings. And never mind that the Norwegian government has nothing to do with selection of winners for the Nobel Peace Prize. And never mind that no one who threatens the possibility of shooting people in another country in the head because he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize deserves any kind of peace prize. The president has told Norway that one of the big reasons he may have to attack Greenland is that he didn’t get the Peace 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….
The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.
Make that “unless I have Complete and Total Control,” and never mind that Trump, at least, had a hand in starting or escalating most of the wars he claims he ended. He stopped the Venezuela war. His war. He stopped the Yemen aerial and sea campaigns against the Houthis that he put into action. He stopped his own bombing of Iran. Etc. Granted, the Yemen incursions did stop the Houthis from sinking ships and launching missiles at Israel. So, “peace through power” maybe on that one; not the others.
And never mind that the president already has the full right to expand US military presence in Greenland as much as he sees fit, a continuing right already provided in writing by Denmark and Greenland during the Cold War. That right to protect Greenland and the US, of course, won’t get you the “gold” that lies underneath the ice.
And never mind that the rightful recipient gave her Peace Prize to Tantrum Trump just a few days ago to help make peace with him so that he might consider letting Venezuela have someone other than the new socialist dictator he has settled for.
What a deeply pathetic baby tantrum for a US president to be telling Norway he is really, really mad still over the Peace Prize and to associate their slight (in his mind) with his ambition to take over Greenland and even warn that it means he may have to be less peaceable in the future! “I may not be nice anymore!” is the common threat of a bully. You can hardly expect a baby to be peaceful if he’ doesn’t get the prize he wanted.
The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson said on X that Trump‘s “new gigantic temper tantrum over Norway is deep into 25th Amendment territory….” At this point, the 25th Amendment “is far in the rearview mirror and we are descending further into madness by the moment.”
You’d think those who were so upset with the Democrats for covering for Dementia Joe (something I pointed almost weekly as an equal-opportunity critic) might be a little miff with the Trump White House covering for Dementia Don.
The madness of King Don is certainly giving his opposition plenty to run with in the midterms. Here are a couple of quotes from among the many:
“He’s going to invade Greenland because he wasn’t given the Nobel Peace Prize. The world is being held hostage by a deranged, tantrum throwing toddler with nukes,” democratic activist Melanie D’Arrigo wrote….
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said: “These are the ramblings of a man who has lost touch with reality. He isn’t ok. He’s degraded significantly in the last year and he’s about to get us into a war with our allies.”
You may recall my saying this weekend that Marjorie Taylor Greene might re-envision the MAGA hat and issue a green version that says, “Make America Greene Again.” Well, in today’s news, the people of Greenland did something similar and donned red hats with a slogan under the “MAGA” that says “Make America Go Away!”
Tariff tantrums
As I mentioned in my weekend Deeper Dive, we have a story today that says Trump is also going to hit European nations, for not giving him Greenland, with new tariffs on top of the tariffs he has already wielded against them. His talk of being triggered into firing more tariffs spawned a “sell America” trade.
The U.S. dollar was on the back foot too, a sign that the world’s No.1 reserve currency was also in the crosshairs of Trump’s threat on Saturday to increase tariffs on goods from several European countries until the United States is allowed to buy Greenland….
“I’m sure that there are a lot of people that are fairly aghast at what happened over the weekend and probably thinking about how they hold their assets,” said Francesca Fornasari, head of currency solutions at Insight Investment.
European leaders talked about using their financial nuclear option if Trump actually invades Denmark’s territory:
The EU … could also implement the so far untested “anti-coercion instrument”, which could limit U.S. access to public tenders, investments or banking activity or restrict trade in services….
European countries are the United States’ biggest creditor, owning US$8-trillion worth of equities and bonds, almost twice as much as the rest of the world combined, said Deutsche Bank.
“In an environment where the geoeconomic stability of the Western alliance is being disrupted existentially, it is not clear why Europeans would be as willing to play this part,” Deutsche Bank’s global head of FX research George Saravelos wrote.
In a timely way, the US debt today was announced to have ballooned by $2.7-trillion in 2025 compared to 2024. It’s teasing $40-trillion.
“The situation probably needs to escalate a fair bit further before they (European public sector investors) damage their investment performance for political purposes,” said Societe Generale’s head of FX strategy Kit Juckes.
That is why they said “IF” Trump actually invades Greenland. The nuclear option won’t be just over his already implemented tariffs, but over the combination of his laying siege to Europe’s economy and then choosing to conquer Greenland with military force, which means shooting European soldiers because that is how military force works against a land that is already arming up for battle by moving in European troops to protect Greenland from its bitter friend to the south.
As a sign of the nuclear option, investments in the US by Germany have nearly halved since Trump took office.
The “anti-coercion instrument” …
… could see the EU restrict U.S. suppliers’ access to the EU market, excluding them from participation in public tenders in the bloc, as well as putting export and import restrictions on goods and services and putting potential limits on foreign direct investment in the region. It has not been used before.
It would also come with 93-billion euros worth of extra tariffs against US products. Reuters reported that the European Parliament is also now likely suspending its work on the EU-U.S. trade deal struck last July. That will also likely cause Trump to revert the higher tariffs he initially imposed.
While Trump has maintained the lie that his tariffs don’t matter to consumers in the US because other nations pay for them—so his new tariffs will hurt those more than they do us—a study in the news today researched deeply into that …
Americans are absorbing about 96% of the costs of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Foreign companies have been paying only 4% through discounts and other tactics [and] … concluded that the tariffs were likely to show up as higher consumer prices in the long term….
“There is no such thing as foreigners transferring wealth to the U.S. in the form of tariffs,” Bielefeld University professor Julian Hinz remarked after authoring the study….
The report found that the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans instead of a tax on foreign companies.
It’s nice to finally get some research from others saying exactly what I’ve been saying all along.
The Esptain vanishes in the fog of war
One other thing that I’ve been saying seems to have already proven true, too. Trump’s invigorated machine-gun approach to launching new wars has done an excellent job of taking all attention off the Epstain Files. Those Republicans who grandstanded all their rage in congress, demanding the president release the files suddenly don’t care about them now that they have fallen so far out of the news cycle, which has become saturated with all the president’s wars and unrestrained ICE enforcement:
Even Lorena Bobbit—excuse me, Lauren Boebert, not the penile hacker but the scorned hack member of congress who divorced herself from Trump for delaying release endlessly—now says, “I don’t give a rip about Epstein.” She washed her hands of the blood-red stain:
“Talk to somebody else about that. It’s no longer in my hands.”
As political attention has shifted to other controversies—including Trump’s military action in Venezuela and the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by an ICE agent in Minnesota—congressional Republicans have deprioritized the Epstein files issue….
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), another vocal advocate for full disclosure in support of the victims, has also gone silent after promising on social media to “keep fighting” for victims’ justice.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), previously outspoken about demanding complete file release, has shifted to defending the DOJ….
House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) is also defending the administration.
“From my standpoint, the Department of Justice is cooperating,” he told reporters….
That leaves Massie, who has already burned his bridges with the president for championing the Epstein release effort among other perceived slights, as the lone House Republican now publicly agitating for DOJ compliance.
“They’re in clear violation of the law, and I don’t think they’ve allocated the necessary resources to release these files,” Massie said in an interview. “But I’m most concerned about the over-redaction of the files. … There’s a list of things they can redact and a list of things they can’t redact in our bill, and they’re violating that.”
So, it worked. Trump has created plenty of diversions for the grandstanders to be able to walk away from something they were always loathe to touch (demonstrated when they rushed home from congress early to try to avoid touching it) and now say they did their part.
… For now anyway.
