Article 72Y8K Donald Trump links threats to seize Greenland to Nobel prize snub in letter

Donald Trump links threats to seize Greenland to Nobel prize snub in letter

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Jon Henley and Patrick Wintour
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US president says he no longer feels the need to think purely of peace' in letter to Norwegian prime minister

Donald Trump has linked his repeated threats to seize control of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel peace prize, as transatlantic tensions over the Arctic island escalated further and threatened to rekindle a trade war with the EU.

In an extraordinary text message sent on Sunday to the Norwegian prime minister, Jonas Gahr Store, the US president wrote that after being snubbed for the prize, he no longer felt the need to think purely of peace".

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