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.”

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    Dear Santa, Considering you decided not to give me a PS5 for Christmas, even though I was a VERY good boy, I no longer feel an obligation to clean my room or not say cusses, although being good will always be predominant, but now I have to think about what is good and proper for me. Why do other kids get a PS5 anyway, and why do they have a “right” to keep them? There are no written rules, it’s just that Santa gave them one a long time ago because their parents asked nicely. But I asked nicely too, many times, and I reminded everyone constantly how nice I was. I have done more chores than any other child since chores were invented, and now Santa should do something for me. Christmas is not secure unless I have Complete and Total Control of a PS5. Thank you! Very Good Boy DJT

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    He got the FIFA peace price. He didn’t go to war with FIFA. The best president. The best. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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    How are we to tell our kids to “grow up” when they’re acting immature when one of the most powerful men on the planet are acting like this publicly?

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      Honestly, when folks at my job complain about Gen z work ethic, I just think…fuck man, why WOULD they. Like I’m old I get that I have to work to keep my community afloat based solely on principle and a desire to live in a moderately decent place but they don’t have decades of experience to teach them that. All they see is any opportunity for growth squashed more and more every day… Like why would they care? How could they motivate to even try? Edit: fat finger spelling

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        That’s why I have some hope for Gen Z and Alpha. They’re seeing all this and we need to tell them how things were before the billionaires truly tried to take over. Unfortunately we can’t get the Boomers to do anything because they’re too busy committing generational warfare.

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    8 wars PLUS! So many after 8 we stopped counting and now we don’t even know what the number is. Thank God that peace will still be predominant, despite Donald not feeling any obligation towards it.

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      I just don’t understand why he isn’t feeling that obligation after being awarded the Fifa Peace Prize, which is the only peace prize that matters.

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    The proof is that the entire upper tier of the Executive Branch has completely lost its shit and is crewed by morons. Last time around there were adults in the room that reeled in his worst impulses even though he’d sneak a gainer in once in a while. This time? They’re a clown car stuffed with ideologues, racists, and fools with the brake pedal ripped out.

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    Lol, that letter reads like something a third grader wrote.

    “Dear Santa, since you decided not to give me a Nintendo for Christmas, I no longer feel like I need to clean my room and not say bad words. I have done more chores than any other person…”

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    everyone is shocked I tell you SHOCKED! now what the fuck is going to be done about it? Is he just going to be allowed to steamroll and conquer neighboring countries forever while the news keeps saying “surely this is the last straw”? Why don’t other countries cut off the Untied States financially until it behaves?

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      Because they can’t. It well hurt they’re GDP and citizens. No more phones no more laptops. The world is to reliant on the US and it’s companies.

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        No more phones no more laptops.

        The only thing it would truly affect is Apple; Samsung could offer de-googled phones in the blink of an eye.

        Hell, we don’t even make the cellphones or laptops here. China has its own stuff. If a single one of the hardware manufacturers dedicated a couple of months to an open source driver project, we could have Linux phones by EOY.

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          A lot of the technology inside a phone is still dependent on US patents and/or manufactured parts. It may seem like one country makes this or that, but that’s not actually how it works. If you look online you’ll see the lowest number is around 40 countries for an iPhone.

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            I feel like if the US can ignore the sovereignty of Denmark, the founding principles of NATO and pretty much the entirety of international law, the rest of us shouldn’t really stress too much about US patents TBH.

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            US patents and/or manufactured parts

            US what now? We’re not making any parts. We are, at best, assembling some things; Tealistically, we’re just fucking boxing shit these days. And patents? Once you’re in an actual trade war, who in the hell cares about a country’s IP claims?

            You can get a black market iphone in China, not once piece has to pass through the US, the tricky part is getting the apple store and apps if they decide to blacklist your serial number.

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    Really? This is what does it.

    Not all his other deranged bullshit – this?

    Fine, I’ll take it, but you’d better be fucking serious, US, or your own credibility is gone.

    Do something about it! Now!

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      Not many people are in a hurry to get shot in the face.

      Many protests are going on, but nothing that will affect them.

      I worry that general strike won’t work because with so much WFH, anyone that can’t scab without being seen will

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    Someone in my family that’s defended trump tooth and nail since the first term on everythinghas done just told me they oppose what he’s doing to Greenland, and the flood of ICE agents in Minneapolis.

    I have never heard them speak a word against Trump. Not ever. And they have argued the craziest shit I’ve ever heard… Like, they think Renee was ‘asking for what she got’ levels of crazy, and that’s after they watched all the videos.

    …and they just told me they are now against Trump on these two huge events. This is nuts. I need to go but a lottery ticket or something.

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      That is wild. I wonder why Greenland would be the tipping point?

      Usually conservatives practically swoon at the notion of invading and occupying things, despite all their talk about “America first”, it’s usually really Israel first, Americans dead last, and when it’s time to bomb/invade something, they are balls-deep on the cheer-leading.

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        As someone with experience with people who are in the MAGA reality bubble, this is because there is no in-canon explanation of Trump’s actions (yet, the story writers patch these up pretty quick). There was no setup for this, no laying the misinformation groundwork and no existing goal that this advances.

        Since Greenland wasn’t part of the story, it just came out of nowhere. Lacking any in-MAGA explaination, they are examining this situation as a normal person who knows normal facts and this is completely an unforced error by any measure as anyone can see.

        If this was something that was serious and planned then we would have started hearing about this months ago as they started preparing the lies and the misinformation seeding into social media via paid/artificial content creators or otherwise useful idiots. This is probably the strongest indication that Greenland is a distraction and not a real move. This is probably the case with Canada too, in my opinion.

        They would rather people talk about anything but the Epstein files and how they are very clearly covering them up and not complying with the law. They don’t want reporters to have time to report on all of the people that he has pardoned who also have made $2-5 million dollar donations to various MAGA PACs, some of them committing even more crimes and getting another pardon…

        They need to throw things into the air to distract people. Some of their planned events are polling negative (the Minnesota Invasion, Healthcare Subsidies) and they don’t have anything else so instead we get more random tariffs and more random military threats because they are something that the Executive Branch can do unilaterally and suddenly to ensure that they grab the next news cycle.

        This is the “Flood the Zone” tactic that Steve Bannon said that they were using during the first admin.

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          If this was something that was serious and planned then we would have started hearing about this months ago as they started preparing the lies and the misinformation seeding into social media via paid/artificial content creators or otherwise useful idiots. This is probably the strongest indication that Greenland is a distraction and not a real move. This is probably the case with Canada too, in my opinion.

          He did start babbling about it early in his second failed term. And I did see attempts to sanewash this talk about Greenland in places like The Atlantic, for example.

          But yeah, the messaging on this has been extremely scattershot.

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            He talked about buying Greenland as early as his first term. Don’t know if it was major news in USA, but here in Denmark it was pretty big news, mostly because it would literally not make any sense for anyone to sell Greenland. Might as well buy it from Azerbaijan as you might buy it from Denmark.

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        Not enough challenge. We “liberate” “armed” countries from their “oppressors” and go into the very bad places and make things “better”

        We’re now raiding Sunny Side Daycare. There’s no fairytale there.

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        Because Greenland is full of white people. If it were full of brown people, especially if they immigrate to the US frequently enough and “steal our jobs”, we might be hearing a different tune.

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        Conservatives seem to oscillate between isolationism and aggressive intervention. They’re both from the stance of American primacy, either using our military for our benefit and to enforce our wishes or saying the world has nothing to offer us we need and that we’re better off not extending effort or energy on the rest of the world.

        Currently our conservatives are swinging towards isolationism, which is why the anti immigration rhetoric and pulling out of international organizations was very popular. That’s not compatible with a plan to forcibly annex another country.

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    Remember that your 2nd amendment exists to make the people able to overthrow their government and not only to shoot gay people

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    dude is so pissed about not getting a peace prize hes going to war with the planet… as if to demonstrate why he would never, ever be deserving of such a prize.

    its hard to really wrap your brain around how stupid a human you would have to be to write that letter… and who is worse the clearly mentally deficient president, or the circle of sycophants enabling this bullshit?

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      I can’t believe I’m watching our own world’s version of the mad king threatening a lord of a northern country, to bend the knee.

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      I mean, it fits entirely however for anyone paying attention.

      He hated New York high society because New York high society snubbed him and wouldn’t let him in their club, because he’s a classless ass.

      He hated the US neoliberal democratic order because they snubbed him and wouldn’t let him in their club, because he doesn’t actually know what the fuck is he doing and doesn’t care about democracy.

      He vows to destroy any group or idea that would reject him. He views it as a personal affront and never feels like maybe he should be a better person.

      No, his solution is to destroy everything in his path, which is why he is also tearing apart NATO because he was snubbed by other democratic world leaders. He is such a giant fucking pussy baby bitch who can’t handle rejection at all.

      He doesn’t even care about ruling over the ashes, he just wants to see it all fall and neither understands nor cares to understand how any of it might impact him in the long run because he’ll be dead before consequences come knocking.

      The fact that a third of the country are exactly the same really exposes how deep the USA’s problems with mental health go.

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        The fact that a third of the country are exactly the same really exposes how deep the USA’s problems with mental health go.

        This last part is the scary part. Normal humans see Grandpa Klan Robe here raging out and calling for “retribution” and think - someone should take the keys away.

        Dumbass conservative apes with broken brains look at that and cheer him on and want to vote for him even harder. 1984 was all too prescient, but that’s because he was looking at quite recent events - “We’ve always been at war with [Greenland|Venezuela|Canada|Mexico]!”

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        I genuinely think there’s a chance that everyone is completely missing his motivation here.

        Trump turns 80 on 14th June 2026. He wants someone, be it Denmark or the US Army, to give him a country for his birthday.

        What better gift is there?

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        He hated the US neoliberal democratic order because they snubbed him and wouldn’t let him in their club,

        Huh?

        He was fully in the neoliberal club…

        He got the fucking Clinton’s to come to one of his weddings, neoliberals loved him because they were one of the few people he actually wrote checks too. Because he always got a return on it.

        The shit about him not liking the Clinton’s is just WWF play acting.

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          With the bad takes again? Neoliberals will take money from anyone. Thousands of average voters donated to neoliberal causes over decades. Were they ever in the club?

          One of the few good things the neoliberals ever did, was to say no to Trump when he demanded power. The fact that Obama ridiculed him, whatever you think of Obama. Should tell you how IN he was. It’s not like everyone by that point didn’t know he was a petulant manchild. They snubbed him. Figuratively and literally. Its why he ran in 2015 against them. Petty bitterness, like all his lawsuits. He just never thought he would win.

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            Yeah, he’s always been mocked and derided since at least the 80s. The local press knew who and what he was for sure. Magazines like Spy mocked him all the time.

            I’m sure with his fragile snowflake ego that he has never felt fully accepted by the typical elites, especially old money. Maybe creepy pedo weirdo elites like Epstein and the freak(s) he ran his beauty pageants with at least tolerated having him around.

            The guy has always come off as thirsty AF for approval by things like Hollywood and so on, too…

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          the WWF connection is real. Trump has been a close ally of the McMahon family for decades and he was breifly involved with the show directley a couple of times . The way he runs conferences, talks to people, etc, is very similar to how things get scripted on the WWF/WWE

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      It’s always been the sycophants who are worse. Slowly, deliberately, and methodically, America has been driven half-crazy stupid by extreme right wing xenophobia and ignorance. Reactionary ideology has fully engulfed the rotten brains of America’s least introspective imbeciles. Trump is the mirror of their desperate desire to be heard, to be catered to, to be rescued from every perceived threat, real or imagined.

      We can shatter the mirror, but the monsters live among us.

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      I could see someone with mushbrain blurting something like that out in the moment. But imagine being such a dumbass as to set that down, in writing?

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        I dunno, I was pretty embarrassed by Dubya, as well, so it feels like its been almost a solid two and a half decades of embarrassment.

        Dubya and his middle east clusterfuck is when other nations started questioning US stability and relations but was considered an anomaly.

        Trump turned the anomaly into a certainty.

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          What about non dubya. What about Reagan. Ford? Nixon… Its been a roughly embarrassing century. Longer actually. But at least a century.

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            I mean, I don’t disagree, but Reagan and Ford didn’t necessarily make Europe especially distrustful of the USA. Reagan made South America distrustful of the USA, but the USA weren’t specifically allied with many South American nations other than through imperial dominance anyway.

            The USA was mostly considered stable and relatively trustworthy, even with Reagan in charge. Dubya was when Europe really started questioning US long-term stability and trustworthiness as an economic partner and NATO partner.

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              Being European and old enough to remember, I’d say Reagan was not exactly popular in Europe. His “In five minutes we’ll start bombing” joke -in Berlin of all places in the world- didn’t go down very well in West Germany which used to be far on the pro-American side.

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              It’s a very narrow distinction, but I’ll give you that. Though it was Reagan that sold arms to the middle east and Iran. Perhaps they didn’t think the US would fall under him. But they certainly knew he wasn’t a dependable or upstanding person.

              Trump is very mask off in a way that many of those sociopath’s weren’t. Mostly because he’s incapable of masking.