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Trump Dragged After Sending Letter To Norway Blaming His Greenland Aggression On Nobel Peace Prize Snub
White House Communications director Steven Cheung accused the Nobel Committee of "placing politics over peace," saying it was "astonishing" that Trump was not recognized after his administration's role in brokering a Gaza ceasefire deal (that Israel has since violated numerous times).
However, Trump was barely eligible for the prize to begin with. Nominations for last year's award closed on January 31, 2025, just days after Trump began his second term in office.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to threaten to seize control of Greenland from Denmark, insisting the U.S. needs the island territory for purposes of "national security." And though Norway has nothing to do with Greenland whatsoever, he told Støre he no longer feels "an obligation to think purely of Peace" because he didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize.
He wrote the following in a letter linking the Nobel Peace Prize to Greenland, the contents of which were first reported by PBS News Hour:
“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”
You can see the letter below
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The letter is all the more outrageous because the Norwegian government is for the most part not involved in selecting Nobel honorees.
The Nobel Foundation is a private organization made up of a board, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Assembly, the Swedish Academy and the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the trustees of the prize-awarding institutions, and auditors.
Although the committee’s members are appointed by politicians, they operate independently, and the Norwegian government does not select the winner, learning the decision at the same time as the public.
But Trump is convinced otherwise, judging by what he told CNN:
"And if anybody doesn't think that Norway doesn't control the Nobel Prize, they're just kidding. They have an award but it's controlled by Norway and I don't care what Norway says."
You can hear what he said in the video below.
And did Trump forget that Greenland is not a territory of Norway?
He was swiftly called out.
It sounds like Machado's decision to curry favor with Trump didn't pay off.
The Nobel laureate is facing heavy criticism since she gave him her prize to Trump despite the Nobel Committee's insistence that prizes can't be transferred.
Machado's gesture came just days after she told Fox News she wanted to give Trump her award after he invaded Venezuela and ousted dictator Nicolás Maduro. Machado told host Sean Hannity she "certainly would love to be able to personally tell him that we believe — the Venezuelan people, because this is a prize of the Venezuelan people, certainly want to give it to him and share it with him."
Machado ignored the pushback from the Nobel Committee and went to Washington anyway, saying she had done so "as a recognition for his [Trump's] unique commitment with our freedom."
Yeah, so much for that.
Reese Witherspoon Shares Important Warning After Scammers Pretending To Be Her Message Fans
These accounts also did something especially sinister: they tried to arrange meeting times with Witherspoon's followers. There's a possibility that these attempts were to prank people, waste their time, and foster engagement, but there's no telling what might have been waiting for these followers if they went to the meeting location.
Witherspoon warned in a TikTok video:
"I want to just tell you what I’ve been dealing with for the past 24 hours. There are multiple people on TikTok and Instagram impersonating me."
"And they go into people's DMs, and they try to build a relationship, they try to extract personal information, plan meet-up times."
"I want you to know this is not me. And it’s so upsetting that people would use my name to manipulate people, but I want you to know that I would never, ever manipulate you."
"I would never reach out to you for money, for private information, to create a meet-up time."
"So please look at these accounts that are doing this and make sure they're verified if somebody's talking to you."
"This is not just me. This is happening across the board. But it's really upsetting to me that this is happening on such a large scale."
"So please be careful out there, and please know I would never, never reach out to you to manipulate you or take anything from you. Okay?"
You can watch her video here:
A few fans joked about the promises the scammers had made to them while posing as Witherspoon.
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But most took Witherspoon's warning seriously and appreciated her informing them of the problem.
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Witherspoon is far from the first celebrity to be impersonated by scammers, and she surely won't be the last, but it's still frustrating how many people get hurt by these scams, whether they're excited fans or don't have the digital literacy to discern the fake accounts from the real ones.
Always make sure to do your research, and if a connection seems too good to be true, there's a great likelihood that it is.
Jameela Jamil Explains Why She Isn't 'Brave' For Speaking Out On Social Issues—And Fans Are Nodding Hard
However, Jamil rejects the label "brave" for it. She also doesn’t think people of privilege, like her fellow celebrities, should stay quiet on social issues.
Speaking to Refinery29 on the Golden Week Nominees Night red carpet, Jamil said:
"Am I brave or are they cowards? I think they're being greedy and weird and disappointing."
"Look at the billions of eyeballs on all of us collectively. There should be no outliers of the industry who are the outspoken ones, like Mark Ruffalo, out there on their own with this amount of privilege."
On the label "brave," Jamil added:
"I feel like we weaponize the word brave to make it seem as though someone's on this pedestal. Using the word 'brave' is a way of separating yourself—being like, 'Oh, I could never do what you do.'"
"And 'You make it seem like it's so hard and so inaccessible.' And then we rely on individuals to do what would be so much easier to achieve as a collective."
She finished by saying:
"I hope it changes."
You can see her comments here:
People appreciated her honesty.
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On Reddit, people discussed the outsized hate Jamil often received online.
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Jamil hasn't let her haters silence her or derail her career.
Her latest project is the romantic comedy People We Meet on Vacation, streaming on Netflix.