Trump throws tantrum over peace prize

US President Donald Trump has displayed his damaged pride for all to see after issuing a letter to Norway’s Prime Minister. Trump stated that his near-constant threats of the US invasion of Greenland are because Norway “decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize”.

This is insane. Trump just wrote a letter to the prime minister of Norway essentially saying “you didn’t give me the Nobel Peace Prize so I’m choosing to invade Greenland because of it.” This is INSANE. It’s about to get a lot worse. pic.twitter.com/L2hysxLJjJ

— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) January 19, 2026

Baby Trump throwing his toys out of the pram

In a letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, and forwarded to European ambassadors in Washington, the US president’s narcissism has reached new lows. Trump reportedly feels a deep sense of injustice after his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Adopting the tone and emotional regulation of a child denied first place at a school sports day, he frames the snub as a personal betrayal of historic proportions. The letter moves between grievance, self-praise, and thinly veiled sulking, ultimately landing on the extraordinary suggestion that taking Greenland might soothe the sting of insufficient international adoration.

In essence: If I can’t have the medal, I’ll take the island.

The bizarre letter states:

Dear Ambassador:

President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]

“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country has 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 a 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”

However, contrary to Trump’s claim that Denmark has no written claim to Greenland, one X account performs the radical act of…um…reading history, with predictably awkward results.

He says there are no papers that prove that Greenland is Danish. But the paper does exist. pic.twitter.com/EHsiK7Mcv5

— Bjørn Jarle Røberg-Larsen (@BjornJarle) January 19, 2026

Resource imperialism

We have written about the UK’s curiously murky position on the US attempt to acquire Greenland via another land grab, noting that oil and minerals alone seem an insufficient explanation for Washington’s growing appetite for territory:

The US drive mirrors this disconnect between rhetoric and resource reality. While Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuela’s President Maduro was framed as an oil grab, analysts quoted in the Financial Times article ‘The new era of resource imperialism’, argue oil was a “pretext,” with the real motive being “American power and very little else”.

Green Party deputy Mothin Ali has criticised Prime Minister Keir Starmer for what he describes as a failure of leadership, urging him to “show some backbone” in responding to Trump’s threats.

“When we talk about bold leadership, we’re ready to take on the billionaires. The Conservatives and the Labour Party, they’re just not willing — they don’t have the backbone to stand up to them.”

Green Party Co-Deputy Leader @MothinAli on #BBCAQ pic.twitter.com/FkcOheP1id

— The Green Party (@TheGreenParty) January 17, 2026

‘Show some backbone’

Trump’s ridiculous and asinine grab for Greenland should be swiftly condemned by world leaders. And, his clearly bruised ego after he didn’t win the peace prize – of course he fucking didn’t – shows just how petty and vindictive this tiny little man is. If Starmer had any hint of a backbone he’d call out this bigoted wannabe despot for embarrassing the US on the world stage.

Don’t hold your breath.

Featured image via the Canary

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Comments 1

Dave Hansell says:

5 months ago

Smoke and mirrors.

This may be of assistance in assessing what is taking place;

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-psychological-stake-in-greenland

“….the claim is that the White House’s strategy currently being played out is not a Monroe Doctrine-esque “retreat” from the outer world as many have assumed, with the US focusing on a ‘Fortress America’ strategic enclave in the Western Hemisphere, but rather is a fully offensive strategy aimed at impeding China from its now-inevitable ascendancy. The US’s focus on “interior” projects like Venezuela and Greenland is meant only to empower the US to act abroad by stripping China and other adversaries of life lines and advantages, etc. …..

…..The Western Hemisphere focus is not America retreating to its corner either. It is securing the base of operations. You cannot project power into the Indo-Pacific if hostile actors control the Gulf shipping lanes, your canal access, or critical supply chains in your own hemisphere. The Monroe Doctrine reassertion enables the Asia strategy. It does not replace it.”