Jan. 19, 2026
Trump Threatens Norway on Greenland: He Didn’t Win Peace Prize, So He No Longer Needs To “Think Purely of Peace.”
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RSS Feed President Trump sent a text to Norway’s Prime Minister that has sent shockwaves through Europe. His text threatens a potentially non-peaceful way forward for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, seeing how the Nobel Committee snubbed him for the Peace Prize. European leaders have fired back with strong language of their own, saying they won’t be blackmailed and that “the limit has been reached.”
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Speaker 1: Hey, that folks. It is Monday, January nineteenth, and since President Trump did not to win the Nobel Peace Prize, he says he no longer feels an obligation to think purely of peace, Greenland, watch out. Those words were for you. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. You read this. We're getting some new words, folks, from the President from a letter he sent to European leaders. And Robes, you just read it. This is just coming out. This is still a developing story that people are talking about. But Robes, you used a word that I'm seeing a lot of places. Extraordinary.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I mean you told me about this. I was off doing something else. I came back in. You described what this text said, what these this letter said, and you know, you say, my jaw dropped you You looked at me and you said, your.
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Speaker 3: Jaw is actually dropped. Right now that.
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Speaker 2: We say this, I feel like almost daily now, surely this can't surprise me. At this point, something he does or says can't be shocking anymore.
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Speaker 3: And yet somehow he still finds a way.
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Speaker 1: No way, you're shocked by this one too.
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Speaker 3: Yes, my jaw dropped and I didn't even know that my jaw had dropped. You pointed it out.
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Speaker 2: It was just a physical reaction to hearing the word choices.
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Speaker 1: All right, So the word choices, And this is what you need to know, folks, is that the president two headlines here. One of them is that he is still talking about Greenland. He's still talking about possible military action, but now he has linked military action to him being snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize. You're hearing me correctly, but you're going to hear the president's words in just a moment. The other headline is that, yes, he did a short interview a short time ago with NBC News by phone. They asked him directly or it was about using force in Greenland. Will tell you verbatim what he said. It was a short answer. But he's essentially not ruling out military action against Greenland. So this is where we are. How did we get here? It was a weekend really of developments. It was the meeting last week was that Thursday at the White House, JD. Vance and Marco Rubio with the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland.
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Speaker 2: The Greenland former minister left in tears and couldn't compose herself. Actually, she was so emotional doing an interview about that meeting, and.
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Speaker 1: That kind of started what's been a series of events that's led us to today.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and this is not, by the way, open for interpretation or here's what we think he means, or he probably meant to say this. This is direct. He is making it very clear how he feels that. He is absolutely blaming Norway for not getting the Nobel Prize and is absolutely holding that country and others responsible for his snub.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of people know the lead up. The President's been talking about this for a long time, it seems, now, wanting to acquire Greenland, says he wants to purchase it now talking about the possibility of military action. At least it's not off the table. But this has been talked about for a while, but we've in the last five or so days have really seen this thing get even more heated. Talked about that meeting at the White House, but after that there were demonstrations in Greenland out there protesting and saying we don't want They have made clear we have no interest in being Americans. Then after that, the President issued a tariff threat against eight countries if you don't support me, I say me, but the United States acquiring Greenland, then we're gonna hit you with a ten percent tariff starting February one, and we don't get it done by June one, it's gonna go up to twenty five percent. And then there was an emergency summit just yesterday among European leaders trying to figure out how to respond. That takes us now to this moment, and this letter rove that the President didn't put out publicly. I give the Norwegian Prime minister credit for this one. He received the response from President Trump, and he for whoever they decided to put it out there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that they sent him a text basically saying, hey, can we have a phone call? Can we bring the temperature down? And his response to that was this, Dear Jonas. This is President Trump to Norway's Prime Minister. Dear Jonas, considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight 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.
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Speaker 1: Stoff right there. That is a threat. That is a military threat. That is I got a gun in my hand. Threat. That isn't remarkable. I don't feel an obligation to think purely of peace. It'll be a top of mine. But now I really got to think about what's good for us. That is gangster. We keep using gangston. This is mob stuff and all this stuff we're hearing. He is writing that we usually don't see this stuff.
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Speaker 2: Right again, if this was a Hollywood script, I would say you've gone too far. No, you as president would ever say that or write that to put in writing so that people could analyze and read it and reread it. Yeah, he put it in writing. That is remarkable. He goes on to say 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.
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Speaker 1: Also.
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Speaker 2: I have done more for NATO than any other person since it's 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.
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Speaker 1: He's putting world security. World security is based on the United States control in Greenland, is what he's saying. Look, we take that for what it is interpreted. However, whatever your political meanings are, maybe you're interpreting it one way or another, but it it stands on its face. Roades is that. I mean, what a weird threat. You didn't give me the peace prize, so I ain't got to think about peace.
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Speaker 2: Now, that's how his mind works.
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Speaker 3: He's all about retributions.
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Speaker 2: He has created this drama because we have heard from plenty of European leaders who have made it very clear that there is no interest, has never been any interest, and they are not aware of any interest from Russia or China to own Greenland, to overtake Greenland, to use Greenland. This is all, according to most of the European leaders who have spoken out, a manufactured drama, a manufactured conflict by President Trump.
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Speaker 1: And he's not letting you go. Things are going up, up, up up. He doesn't show any signs of backing down to this point. Now included here we talked about this Norway. The Norwegian Prime Minister was the one that put out that correspondence, but then came back and had to was getting questions about it and had to come out and put out a statement which I thought was pretty level headed but strong at the same time, saying confirmed that message is one he received from the President. Came in response to a short text like you just talked about, but said, we conveyed our opposition to his announced tariff increases against Norway, Finland and other countries. We pointed to the need to de escalate and proposed a telephone conversation. The response from Trump came shortly after the message was sent. It was his decision to share his message with other NATO leaders. There you go. So Norway's position on Greenland is clear part of Norway. Excuse me, Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway fully supports the Kingdom of Denmark on this matter. We also support that NATO is a responsible way. As regards to the Nobel Peace Prize, here you go, ropes. I have clearly explained, including the President Trump, what is well known the prize was awarded by an independent nobele Bail committee and not the Norwegian government. That he had to throw that in There seems the President knows right, he knows who does. He doesn't believe it.
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Speaker 3: He does, he doesn't believe it.
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Speaker 2: He thinks that the Norwegian government can control or sway or have an impact on who they choose for the Nobel Peace Prize. And I think he may think that in the same way he does politics here in the United States. When he wants something or he wants something to go a certain way, he does put pressure on politicians and using tactics of carrots and sticks. Yes, so that's how it works in his administration, and he is having a hard time understanding that that might not be how it works in Norway.
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Speaker 1: A few reactions from some European leaders. The Danish Foreign Minister's simply saying, you can't threaten your way to ownership of greenland. Really, I'm going to save this one in a file and see if that went ages. Well, you can't threaten your way to ownership of greenland. Really, Presidents thinks he can. I like what the German finance minister had to say. I thought this was this was called in therapy speak, boundaries. They created a boundary and they made it very clear. So this is what the German finance minister said. Germany and France agree, we will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed. Blackmail between allies of two hundred and fifty years, blackmail between friends is obviously unacceptable. We Europeans must make it clear the limit has been reached, has it? I would love to see them stand by that statement. Does everybody feel that thing, because there hasn't been a limit yet.
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Speaker 2: Well, now that they've said it and they've written it, now let's see if their actions back up their words.
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Speaker 1: Are they going to push back was we haven't reached it? You could argue in this country, there's not a limit to where we're not going to accept this. We're not going to take this anymore. We haven't reached that yet. We keep taking it, keep taking it. Eye, it's Trump being Trump. Oh here we go. Oh that's crazy, but oh it's just Trump. Here we are. We haven't demanded a damn thing. We go out the streets. You know what I'm saying, We just Yes, this is I hear. But I like that line. At some point, somebody's got to say, Okay, we are not going to go along with this or entertain this, even like the fact that there's a negotiation over something that ain't even for sale.
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Speaker 3: Wow, When you put it like that, it seems ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: If somebody wants our home that we are paying for robes, our answers no, but they say let's have a meeting about it. Why would we.
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Speaker 2: Say yes, right, There is no there is no situation in which we would say yes.
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Speaker 1: That's just you're not going to just take our stuff. We're about to take this.
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Speaker 2: I think they thought that cooler heads could prevail, that they could talk with Marco Rubio, that they could talk with JD.
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Speaker 3: Vance, and that they could say, hey, we understand why you all are concerned. Let us offer this.
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Speaker 2: Let us you all can reopen your military basis here that have kind of crumbled and fallen into, you know, just disrepair. I think we have eight or nine military bases there that at one point we did that we could reassume they're saying, yeah, go ahead, put your shield up. Like I think they thought there were things we needed that could give Trump what he wanted, which is security for the United States, and he claims security for the world. So if they can give the United States as much access as they would like or need to create a larger military presence in Greenland, to have some of the security systems we want in.
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Speaker 3: Place that give us a logistic advantage to have it in the Arctic.
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Speaker 2: They were willing to seed some of these things and it was not up for discussion.
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Speaker 1: And he did want to have a discussion with NBC News just hopped on the phone with him. He likes MBC. I think he likes Kristen Welker over there that does the Sunday show. He does, He'll hop on the phone with him, but gave them an exclusive interview today. He was asked specifically about military action in Greenland. His response, no comment. He knew what that was going to create. He could have said things are on the table, or don't want to talk, no comment, and that was all he gave on Norway snull snubbing him for the Nobel Peace Prize, like you said, robes just about He keeps thinking Norway or saying Norway has something to do with it. He said, quote they like to say they have nothing to do with it, but they have everything to do with it. So mad at Norway and the government for not giving him the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Speaker 2: Which does he realize that he appears in that sense because he's so vocal about what he didn't get, and he didn't get what he wanted or what he thought he deserves, so he's going to go do that.
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Speaker 3: That That is literally a two year old tantrum. I mean that is a childlike response.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know if he really realizes that. I don't know how many people, but that's what you throw a fit when you don't get your a. But he said he deserves it, folks. And the reason he says he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize is because he has ended eight wars. How many times have you heard that he has ended eight wars? But has he really a lot of experts say you should probably cut that number in half. Stay here, we continue here on Amy and TJ. The United States of America in hot pursuit of Greenland, well at least the President's in hot pursuit of Greenland again, once again getting some updated I guess words from the President who is now saying that he deserves Greenland some kind of payback. Almost y'all didn't give me the Nobel Peace.
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Speaker 3: Prize, so you owe me this.
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Speaker 1: So I ain't got to think about peace no more. Got a big military over here. I want to keep thinking about peace but y'all might force me to do something else.
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Speaker 2: Keep saying this. That's gangster. That is gangster mentality. It is a not so veiled threat. It's past aggressive when you know that you can be aggressive whenever you'd like.
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Speaker 1: But does he have a case to make Robes Nobel Peace Prize? He has said so. Most people can know the number how many times we've heard him publicly say how many wars he's ended.
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Speaker 3: I think he's up to.
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Speaker 2: Eight and a half. Now, doesn't he say like eight? And like a little extra.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember what the extra was.
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Speaker 2: Something happened, there's some plus, like he goes, it's more than eight, but it's not quite nine.
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Speaker 1: There it is. So he has sold the eight we have here in front of us. Now, the experts will tell you that maybe maybe give him credit for four. Let's just not argue and let's just give him credit for four. Then another is a hard maybe, and the other three are give me a freaking break. They actually say a couple of them, folks weren't even fighting.
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Speaker 2: I didn't even know that. Yes, so to that point you have them listed here. I was like there was a war there. I didn't even know there were fighting, So I'm super confused.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, each of the Ethiopia is one of them. This is more so. They've been fighting over the river, the nile there and building a damn and all the So it is not an armed.
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Speaker 2: Conflict, war of words, not an actual physical fighting situation.
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Speaker 1: And argue that about Serbian Kosovo as well. This is not an armed conflict that they have to put their arms down. Now, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, he didn't end that one because fight is raging, fighting continues to raise.
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Speaker 3: But is he claiming that that's all the lists.
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Speaker 2: He's claiming that he stopped the war between Rwanda and Congo.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And the other one is India and Pakistan. That's the one that's a maybe. He was certainly involved, the administration involved in that. But one side will say, yeah, we'll give him credit. The other side that he had nothing to do with this. So that's the one that's kind of a.
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Speaker 2: Maybe, all right, And the ones that he does get credit for, and I think we can all agree the Israel Hamas, Yes, obviously he had a huge hand in that and has been credited by Nettan, Yahoo and beyond for making that peace deal. Happen and stick Israel and Iran. That was a twelve day conflict, but.
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Speaker 1: That was one where we helped end the war. But we were dropping bombs during that one as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we yeah, we definitely put our military in action. That was.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've had a couple of those mornings. We've woken up to what.
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Speaker 2: The hell, what did we just where did we just fly into and what did we just do? Yes, that was one of them, but it did end the Iran Israel war, Armenia and Azerbajan.
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Speaker 3: I just want to make sure I said that correctly. Didn't know that was happening. What was that? I not fully up on that conflict.
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Speaker 1: But that's one where they give him credit, okay, for helping in some yes, fighting there. So those are the ones. But again eight overwhelmingly, folks will tell you that's a stretch. Four sure. Five maybe that he had a hand in, all.
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Speaker 2: Right, Cambodia and Thailand. This was also this all happened in the past calendar year. Okay, I mean, all right, look, he has some wins, but he has perhaps exaggerated the extent to which he saved the world and created long lasting piece.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna get nominated again next year and there will be a campaign again next year. How are they going to feel about it next year this guy. Are they going to say, oh, we better give it to him, or are they going to say, are you absolutely? Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 2: So?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want to hop on and give you this update because these were pretty significant. I guess temperature checks that we need to do here because the temperature has gone based on some of the words coming out of the White House and coming out of the President's mouth robes Greenland. He is not letting it go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and at this point, because he's used such strong language and he's put it in writing and the world is on notice.
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Speaker 3: Do you see him backing down?
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Speaker 1: You might have to. He's done it on few rare occasions where he's made some threat, but he's had to back down a couple of times. We'll see on this one.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 2: We will certainly keep our eye on this developing story.
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Speaker 3: There seems to be new Greenland headlines every day.
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Speaker 2: Never thought I would say that in my professional career, I have to say, never thought that Greenland would be just this hot topic that we were actually having to report on daily and sometimes more than once a day, but we'll be on it. We appreciate you as always listening to us. I'm Amy Roebuck alongside my partner TJ.
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Speaker 3: Holmes. We will talk to you soon
Speaker 1: Hey, that folks. It is Monday, January nineteenth, and since President Trump did not to win the Nobel Peace Prize, he says he no longer feels an obligation to think purely of peace, Greenland, watch out. Those words were for you. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. You read this. We're getting some new words, folks, from the President from a letter he sent to European leaders. And Robes, you just read it. This is just coming out. This is still a developing story that people are talking about. But Robes, you used a word that I'm seeing a lot of places. Extraordinary.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I mean you told me about this. I was off doing something else. I came back in. You described what this text said, what these this letter said, and you know, you say, my jaw dropped you You looked at me and you said, your.
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Speaker 3: Jaw is actually dropped. Right now that.
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Speaker 2: We say this, I feel like almost daily now, surely this can't surprise me. At this point, something he does or says can't be shocking anymore.
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Speaker 3: And yet somehow he still finds a way.
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Speaker 1: No way, you're shocked by this one too.
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Speaker 3: Yes, my jaw dropped and I didn't even know that my jaw had dropped. You pointed it out.
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Speaker 2: It was just a physical reaction to hearing the word choices.
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Speaker 1: All right, So the word choices, And this is what you need to know, folks, is that the president two headlines here. One of them is that he is still talking about Greenland. He's still talking about possible military action, but now he has linked military action to him being snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize. You're hearing me correctly, but you're going to hear the president's words in just a moment. The other headline is that, yes, he did a short interview a short time ago with NBC News by phone. They asked him directly or it was about using force in Greenland. Will tell you verbatim what he said. It was a short answer. But he's essentially not ruling out military action against Greenland. So this is where we are. How did we get here? It was a weekend really of developments. It was the meeting last week was that Thursday at the White House, JD. Vance and Marco Rubio with the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland.
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Speaker 2: The Greenland former minister left in tears and couldn't compose herself. Actually, she was so emotional doing an interview about that meeting, and.
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Speaker 1: That kind of started what's been a series of events that's led us to today.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and this is not, by the way, open for interpretation or here's what we think he means, or he probably meant to say this. This is direct. He is making it very clear how he feels that. He is absolutely blaming Norway for not getting the Nobel Prize and is absolutely holding that country and others responsible for his snub.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of people know the lead up. The President's been talking about this for a long time, it seems, now, wanting to acquire Greenland, says he wants to purchase it now talking about the possibility of military action. At least it's not off the table. But this has been talked about for a while, but we've in the last five or so days have really seen this thing get even more heated. Talked about that meeting at the White House, but after that there were demonstrations in Greenland out there protesting and saying we don't want They have made clear we have no interest in being Americans. Then after that, the President issued a tariff threat against eight countries if you don't support me, I say me, but the United States acquiring Greenland, then we're gonna hit you with a ten percent tariff starting February one, and we don't get it done by June one, it's gonna go up to twenty five percent. And then there was an emergency summit just yesterday among European leaders trying to figure out how to respond. That takes us now to this moment, and this letter rove that the President didn't put out publicly. I give the Norwegian Prime minister credit for this one. He received the response from President Trump, and he for whoever they decided to put it out there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that they sent him a text basically saying, hey, can we have a phone call? Can we bring the temperature down? And his response to that was this, Dear Jonas. This is President Trump to Norway's Prime Minister. Dear Jonas, considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped eight 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.
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Speaker 1: Stoff right there. That is a threat. That is a military threat. That is I got a gun in my hand. Threat. That isn't remarkable. I don't feel an obligation to think purely of peace. It'll be a top of mine. But now I really got to think about what's good for us. That is gangster. We keep using gangston. This is mob stuff and all this stuff we're hearing. He is writing that we usually don't see this stuff.
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Speaker 2: Right again, if this was a Hollywood script, I would say you've gone too far. No, you as president would ever say that or write that to put in writing so that people could analyze and read it and reread it. Yeah, he put it in writing. That is remarkable. He goes on to say 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.
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Speaker 1: Also.
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Speaker 2: I have done more for NATO than any other person since it's 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.
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Speaker 1: He's putting world security. World security is based on the United States control in Greenland, is what he's saying. Look, we take that for what it is interpreted. However, whatever your political meanings are, maybe you're interpreting it one way or another, but it it stands on its face. Roades is that. I mean, what a weird threat. You didn't give me the peace prize, so I ain't got to think about peace.
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Speaker 2: Now, that's how his mind works.
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Speaker 3: He's all about retributions.
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Speaker 2: He has created this drama because we have heard from plenty of European leaders who have made it very clear that there is no interest, has never been any interest, and they are not aware of any interest from Russia or China to own Greenland, to overtake Greenland, to use Greenland. This is all, according to most of the European leaders who have spoken out, a manufactured drama, a manufactured conflict by President Trump.
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Speaker 1: And he's not letting you go. Things are going up, up, up up. He doesn't show any signs of backing down to this point. Now included here we talked about this Norway. The Norwegian Prime Minister was the one that put out that correspondence, but then came back and had to was getting questions about it and had to come out and put out a statement which I thought was pretty level headed but strong at the same time, saying confirmed that message is one he received from the President. Came in response to a short text like you just talked about, but said, we conveyed our opposition to his announced tariff increases against Norway, Finland and other countries. We pointed to the need to de escalate and proposed a telephone conversation. The response from Trump came shortly after the message was sent. It was his decision to share his message with other NATO leaders. There you go. So Norway's position on Greenland is clear part of Norway. Excuse me, Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway fully supports the Kingdom of Denmark on this matter. We also support that NATO is a responsible way. As regards to the Nobel Peace Prize, here you go, ropes. I have clearly explained, including the President Trump, what is well known the prize was awarded by an independent nobele Bail committee and not the Norwegian government. That he had to throw that in There seems the President knows right, he knows who does. He doesn't believe it.
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Speaker 3: He does, he doesn't believe it.
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Speaker 2: He thinks that the Norwegian government can control or sway or have an impact on who they choose for the Nobel Peace Prize. And I think he may think that in the same way he does politics here in the United States. When he wants something or he wants something to go a certain way, he does put pressure on politicians and using tactics of carrots and sticks. Yes, so that's how it works in his administration, and he is having a hard time understanding that that might not be how it works in Norway.
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Speaker 1: A few reactions from some European leaders. The Danish Foreign Minister's simply saying, you can't threaten your way to ownership of greenland. Really, I'm going to save this one in a file and see if that went ages. Well, you can't threaten your way to ownership of greenland. Really, Presidents thinks he can. I like what the German finance minister had to say. I thought this was this was called in therapy speak, boundaries. They created a boundary and they made it very clear. So this is what the German finance minister said. Germany and France agree, we will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed. Blackmail between allies of two hundred and fifty years, blackmail between friends is obviously unacceptable. We Europeans must make it clear the limit has been reached, has it? I would love to see them stand by that statement. Does everybody feel that thing, because there hasn't been a limit yet.
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Speaker 2: Well, now that they've said it and they've written it, now let's see if their actions back up their words.
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Speaker 1: Are they going to push back was we haven't reached it? You could argue in this country, there's not a limit to where we're not going to accept this. We're not going to take this anymore. We haven't reached that yet. We keep taking it, keep taking it. Eye, it's Trump being Trump. Oh here we go. Oh that's crazy, but oh it's just Trump. Here we are. We haven't demanded a damn thing. We go out the streets. You know what I'm saying, We just Yes, this is I hear. But I like that line. At some point, somebody's got to say, Okay, we are not going to go along with this or entertain this, even like the fact that there's a negotiation over something that ain't even for sale.
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Speaker 3: Wow, When you put it like that, it seems ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: If somebody wants our home that we are paying for robes, our answers no, but they say let's have a meeting about it. Why would we.
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Speaker 2: Say yes, right, There is no there is no situation in which we would say yes.
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Speaker 1: That's just you're not going to just take our stuff. We're about to take this.
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Speaker 2: I think they thought that cooler heads could prevail, that they could talk with Marco Rubio, that they could talk with JD.
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Speaker 3: Vance, and that they could say, hey, we understand why you all are concerned. Let us offer this.
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Speaker 2: Let us you all can reopen your military basis here that have kind of crumbled and fallen into, you know, just disrepair. I think we have eight or nine military bases there that at one point we did that we could reassume they're saying, yeah, go ahead, put your shield up. Like I think they thought there were things we needed that could give Trump what he wanted, which is security for the United States, and he claims security for the world. So if they can give the United States as much access as they would like or need to create a larger military presence in Greenland, to have some of the security systems we want in.
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Speaker 3: Place that give us a logistic advantage to have it in the Arctic.
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Speaker 2: They were willing to seed some of these things and it was not up for discussion.
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Speaker 1: And he did want to have a discussion with NBC News just hopped on the phone with him. He likes MBC. I think he likes Kristen Welker over there that does the Sunday show. He does, He'll hop on the phone with him, but gave them an exclusive interview today. He was asked specifically about military action in Greenland. His response, no comment. He knew what that was going to create. He could have said things are on the table, or don't want to talk, no comment, and that was all he gave on Norway snull snubbing him for the Nobel Peace Prize, like you said, robes just about He keeps thinking Norway or saying Norway has something to do with it. He said, quote they like to say they have nothing to do with it, but they have everything to do with it. So mad at Norway and the government for not giving him the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Speaker 2: Which does he realize that he appears in that sense because he's so vocal about what he didn't get, and he didn't get what he wanted or what he thought he deserves, so he's going to go do that.
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Speaker 3: That That is literally a two year old tantrum. I mean that is a childlike response.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know if he really realizes that. I don't know how many people, but that's what you throw a fit when you don't get your a. But he said he deserves it, folks. And the reason he says he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize is because he has ended eight wars. How many times have you heard that he has ended eight wars? But has he really a lot of experts say you should probably cut that number in half. Stay here, we continue here on Amy and TJ. The United States of America in hot pursuit of Greenland, well at least the President's in hot pursuit of Greenland again, once again getting some updated I guess words from the President who is now saying that he deserves Greenland some kind of payback. Almost y'all didn't give me the Nobel Peace.
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Speaker 3: Prize, so you owe me this.
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Speaker 1: So I ain't got to think about peace no more. Got a big military over here. I want to keep thinking about peace but y'all might force me to do something else.
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Speaker 2: Keep saying this. That's gangster. That is gangster mentality. It is a not so veiled threat. It's past aggressive when you know that you can be aggressive whenever you'd like.
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Speaker 1: But does he have a case to make Robes Nobel Peace Prize? He has said so. Most people can know the number how many times we've heard him publicly say how many wars he's ended.
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Speaker 3: I think he's up to.
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Speaker 2: Eight and a half. Now, doesn't he say like eight? And like a little extra.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember what the extra was.
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Speaker 2: Something happened, there's some plus, like he goes, it's more than eight, but it's not quite nine.
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Speaker 1: There it is. So he has sold the eight we have here in front of us. Now, the experts will tell you that maybe maybe give him credit for four. Let's just not argue and let's just give him credit for four. Then another is a hard maybe, and the other three are give me a freaking break. They actually say a couple of them, folks weren't even fighting.
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Speaker 2: I didn't even know that. Yes, so to that point you have them listed here. I was like there was a war there. I didn't even know there were fighting, So I'm super confused.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, each of the Ethiopia is one of them. This is more so. They've been fighting over the river, the nile there and building a damn and all the So it is not an armed.
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Speaker 2: Conflict, war of words, not an actual physical fighting situation.
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Speaker 1: And argue that about Serbian Kosovo as well. This is not an armed conflict that they have to put their arms down. Now, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, he didn't end that one because fight is raging, fighting continues to raise.
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Speaker 3: But is he claiming that that's all the lists.
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Speaker 2: He's claiming that he stopped the war between Rwanda and Congo.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And the other one is India and Pakistan. That's the one that's a maybe. He was certainly involved, the administration involved in that. But one side will say, yeah, we'll give him credit. The other side that he had nothing to do with this. So that's the one that's kind of a.
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Speaker 2: Maybe, all right, And the ones that he does get credit for, and I think we can all agree the Israel Hamas, Yes, obviously he had a huge hand in that and has been credited by Nettan, Yahoo and beyond for making that peace deal. Happen and stick Israel and Iran. That was a twelve day conflict, but.
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Speaker 1: That was one where we helped end the war. But we were dropping bombs during that one as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we yeah, we definitely put our military in action. That was.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've had a couple of those mornings. We've woken up to what.
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Speaker 2: The hell, what did we just where did we just fly into and what did we just do? Yes, that was one of them, but it did end the Iran Israel war, Armenia and Azerbajan.
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Speaker 3: I just want to make sure I said that correctly. Didn't know that was happening. What was that? I not fully up on that conflict.
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Speaker 1: But that's one where they give him credit, okay, for helping in some yes, fighting there. So those are the ones. But again eight overwhelmingly, folks will tell you that's a stretch. Four sure. Five maybe that he had a hand in, all.
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Speaker 2: Right, Cambodia and Thailand. This was also this all happened in the past calendar year. Okay, I mean, all right, look, he has some wins, but he has perhaps exaggerated the extent to which he saved the world and created long lasting piece.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna get nominated again next year and there will be a campaign again next year. How are they going to feel about it next year this guy. Are they going to say, oh, we better give it to him, or are they going to say, are you absolutely? Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 2: So?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want to hop on and give you this update because these were pretty significant. I guess temperature checks that we need to do here because the temperature has gone based on some of the words coming out of the White House and coming out of the President's mouth robes Greenland. He is not letting it go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and at this point, because he's used such strong language and he's put it in writing and the world is on notice.
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Speaker 3: Do you see him backing down?
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Speaker 1: You might have to. He's done it on few rare occasions where he's made some threat, but he's had to back down a couple of times. We'll see on this one.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 2: We will certainly keep our eye on this developing story.
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Speaker 3: There seems to be new Greenland headlines every day.
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Speaker 2: Never thought I would say that in my professional career, I have to say, never thought that Greenland would be just this hot topic that we were actually having to report on daily and sometimes more than once a day, but we'll be on it. We appreciate you as always listening to us. I'm Amy Roebuck alongside my partner TJ.
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Speaker 3: Holmes. We will talk to you soon