PEACE PRIZE OR ELSE!
Today, I am using this tiny platform to boost the voices and writings of others. President Trump sent a letter to the leader of Norway, and I am paraphrasing: “I didn’t get the Nobel Prize, ya’ll owe me the Prize, so I am taking Peace on Earth off the table. Here is that letter:
”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 a boat that landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any 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
From Adam Kinzinger’s piece on Substack today: “This is not parody. This is not a meme. This is not a joke taken out of context. This is the sitting president of the United States explaining how he thinks.
From Anne Applebaum’s piece:
“Yet what matters isn’t the specific phrases, but the overall message: Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Norwegian government and certainly not the Danish government, determines the winner of that prize. Yet Trump now not only blames Norway for failing to give it to him, but is using it as a justification for an invasion of Greenland.”
Anne Applebaum, writing in the Atlantic:
Finally, a cathartic piece from Jonathan Pie:
I guess I am a soy-filled, woke tart!
I know how we got here, but the reality of the current moment in the world is so brutally, soul-crushingly cringey, it feels like my soul is in fire