President Donald Trump’s bizarre and threatening letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has sent shockwaves across the globe, prompting analysts, journalists and political commentators to openly question whether the president had suffered “some sort of serious mental breakdown....

Contents of said letter from daily beast: https://archive.is/YFBK3#selection-773.0-779.748

“Dear Jonas,” the president wrote to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre. “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.”

  • B-TR3E@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    Am I missing the joke? IKEA is Swedish which is “almost the same” ( not America, fish, strange language, somewhere in northern Europe, Eskimos and Penguins [both wrong, but who cares?]) as Norway but still not really the same.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      No that’s the joke. To Americans…Denmark, Norway, and Sweden may as well be one country.

      I always get Sweden and Switzerland confused but that’s mainly because of the alliteration. I gotta think twice about where my cheese comes from.