Trump No Longer Feels 'Obligation' For Peace After Nobel Prize Snub
By: Toby Meyjes (Newsweek)
Hey, President Donnie Fumbduck, the Nobel Peace Prize is recognition for a commitment to globalization and the international world order. If Trump wants a Noble Prize then he has to eliminate all the tariffs, open the US borders, and sell out America.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he "no longer feels an obligation to think purely of Peace" as he linked his persistent pursuit of Greenland to missing out on the Nobel Peace Prize he has long coveted.
Writing to Norwegian Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Stre, Trump said: "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."
Why It Matters
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded each year by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado—who was awarded the prize in December—handed over her medal to Trump last week, a gesture Trump welcomed but prompted backlash in Oslo.
Trump has positioned himself as a world peacemaker, his administration claiming the president has "ended" a host of conflicts.
What To Know
After the contents of the message were reported, Stre confirmed on Monday he had received the text from Trump on Sunday afternoon after the Norwegian leader and Finland's president, Alexander Stubb, had protested new White House tariffs slapped on eight U.S. allies over their support for Greenland.
"We pointed to the need to de-escalate and proposed a telephone conversation between Trump, Stubb and myself on the same day," Stre said in a statement published by his office. Trump quickly responded and the Republican decided to share his message with other leaders across the alliance, Stre added.
"It tells us more about President Trump than anything else," Kre Aas, who served as Norway's ambassador to the U.S. during the previous Trump administration, told Newsweek.
Trump announced on Saturday that Washington would hit Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom—a collection of countries that have long been among America's closest allies—with a fresh 10 percent tariff from February 1.
He then threatened the same countries with a hike to a 25 per cent duty on June 1 and said the measures would apply "until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."
The administration has insisted it needs to control Greenland, a semiautonomous part of fellow NATO member Denmark, for its own national security, its extensive planned missile defense program and to better protect the alliance from Russia and China. But onlookers say the White House's increasingly aggressive stance toward the strategic, mostly ice-covered Arctic territory slots into its hunt for natural resources and stronger influence in the Western Hemisphere.
Trump officials have kept some form of financial deal on the cards but have refused to take military action off the table, deeply worrying America's fellow NATO allies.
An armed attack on the country would violate international law and likely mean the disintegration of NATO.
What People Are Saying
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stre said in a statement on Monday: "As regards the Nobel Peace Prize, I have clearly explained, including to president Trump what is well known, the prize is awarded by an independent Nobel Committee and not the Norwegian Government."
U.S. President Donald Trump said in a post to his Truth Social platform late on Sunday: "NATO has been telling Denmark, for 20 years, that "you have to get the Russian threat away from Greenland." Unfortunately, Denmark has been unable to do anything about it. Now it is time, and it will be done!!!"
Update 19/1/2026 at 6:15 a.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.
Update 19/1/2026 at 11 a.m. ET: This article was updated with a comment from Kre Aas.
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To win a Nobel Peace Prize, President Donnie Fumbduck must be anti-MAGA. Of course the clown is far too stupid to understand that.
It is alarming that such an ignorant buffoon is steering the ship of state. Trump campaigned against everything the Nobel Peace Prize stands for and now Trump thinks he deserves one?
A good analysis on this and rant by Brian Tyler Cohen
What kind of extraordinarily distorted thinking enables one to support this dangerous buffoon?
Europe cannot defend the sovereignty of Ukraine and ignore the sovereignty of Greenland. Trump has created a flashpoint.
Canada is also a member of NATO. Canada could become a staging ground for a NATO war with the United States. Canada can shut down the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence seaway. Trump is playing a more dangerous game than he may realize.
That is almost always true. Trump clearly does not fully understand the consequences of his spontaneous, ill-conceived acts. And, worse, for the portion he does understand, he seems to not care.
After all this moron seems to think that tariffs are paid by foreign nations. This imbecile seems to think that it is possible to cut the price of something by more than 100%. This is a stupid person who has some very well-honed skills in lying and grifting.
And this stupid, unconstrained, man-child holds the most powerful office on the planet.
He cares about himself. He is also 79, in questionable health, and will not have to live with the long-term consequences of his actions. He has, in a real sense, nothing to lose (since he clearly does not care about or does not comprehend the reality of his legacy).