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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Jan 19, 2026, 03:53 PM 2 hrs ago

Jeff Tiedrich - spite-fueled toddler claims he gets to have Greenland because he didn't get a Nobel Peace Prize

hey, everyone! it’s time to play America’s favorite new game, What The Fuck Am I Waking Up To Today?

[picks up phone, scrolls]

oh, come on — you have got to be shitting me.




so there you are, in bed, staring at your phone in the dark at 4 o’clock in the morning, at a post claiming that Preznit Fuckwit says he has the right to invade Greenland because he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize — and all you can think is ‘this can’t possibly be real. someone photoshopped this.’

not even Donny would be that childish, right?



https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/spite-fueled-toddler-claims-he-gets
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Jeff Tiedrich - spite-fueled toddler claims he gets to have Greenland because he didn't get a Nobel Peace Prize (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 2 hrs ago OP
MaddowBlog-Trump connects his Greenland crusade to his failure to win a Nobel Peace Prize LetMyPeopleVote 2 hrs ago #1

LetMyPeopleVote

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1. MaddowBlog-Trump connects his Greenland crusade to his failure to win a Nobel Peace Prize
Mon Jan 19, 2026, 03:56 PM
2 hrs ago

“I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” the president said in a truly bizarre text message to Norway's prime minister.

In case there were any doubts, that utterly bonkers message Trump sent to the Norwegian prime minister? It’s entirely real.

He effectively argued, in writing, that his crusade for Greenland is partly the result of the Nobel committee hurting his feelings. #madking www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-19T15:39:53.345Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-connects-his-greenland-crusade-to-his-failure-to-win-a-nobel-peace-prize

But in case these circumstances didn’t seem quite ridiculous enough, Trump managed to take matters to a whole new level in a message he sent over the weekend to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, in which he suggested part of his Greenland crusade is rooted in his failure to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

The message, first published by PBS, read in its entirety:

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


....For now, let’s not dwell on the fact that Trump’s message was filled with several factual errors (he has not, for example, “stopped” eight wars). Let’s also brush past the fact that he apparently believes the Norwegian government is responsible for awarding Nobel prizes (it’s not).

Let’s instead consider the nature of the American president’s pitch: Norway hurt his feelings by failing to give him an award he wanted but did not earn, which means he no longer feels “an obligation to think purely of Peace,” and which further leads him to believe that the NATO alliance should simply let him buy an arctic island, which isn’t for sale and which does not want to be part of the United States, with money he does not have.

There’s been an ongoing conversation for quite a while about whether Trump deserves to be seen as a “mad king.” As the public digests his message to the Norwegian prime minister, it’s likely that conversation is poised to grow considerably louder.
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