This is apparently how an exchange with Trump looks like:

Text exchange between Trump and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Støre

Released by the office of Støre following a freedom of information request by the BBC, 18 January at 15:48 (14:48 GMT)

Gahr Støre:

Dear Mr President, dear Donald - on the contact across the Atlantic - on Greenland, Gaza, Ukraine - and your tariff announcement yesterday.

You know our position on these issues. But we believe we all should work to take this down and de-escalate - so much is happening around us where we need to stand together.

We are proposing a call with you later today - with both of us or separately - give us a hint of what you prefer! Best - Alex [on behalf of Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb] and Jonas

Trump's response, 18 January 16:15 (15:15 GMT):

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

47 minutes ago, CharonY said:

This is apparently how an exchange with Trump looks like:

Senile. 25th amendment?

14 minutes ago, exchemist said:

Senile. 25th amendment?

The 25th, they say it is the biggest amendment, huge. Even bigger than the 27th. Some say, it is the strongest. Hardly any president get it. Only the best. And the worst. Like sleepy Joe when he had his colonoscopy. My colon is so much better. A perfect colon. The doctors said they never had seen such a great colon. But you go to the toilet, and people are flushing toilets10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once. You turn on the faucet and you don't get any water. Just dripping out. But not like my colon. My colon is strong and it flushes out beautifully.

3 hours ago, Externet said:

The king of Denmark told me that you cannot afford the purchase of Greenland. As you are an expert in real estate, perhaps would prefer renting, about one thousand kilograms of gold per month, as your dollar printing machines cannot afford to make pennies.

WOW!!! This is what I've been thinking! Instead of telling Trump that Greenland is "not for sale", Denmark should tell Trump that the US can't afford Greenland, then proceed to name a price that is way beyond anything the US could possibly afford. And the price would be specified in something like gold, not US dollars which can't be trusted. And if Trump complains about the price, tell him that he made Greenland much more valuable by his desperate need to have it. I'm pretty sure that stating a desperate need to have something is not a negotiation tactic from "The Art of the Deal".

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/us-military-trump-greenland/685677/?gift=43H6YzEv1tnFbOn4MRsWYla2FHXUNgrTIgaQRWVp2do&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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The United States is a global superpower, and its military trains for war in every domain. During my years as a military educator, I saw American officers wrestle with any number of scenarios designed to challenge their thinking and force them to adapt to surprises. One case we never considered, however, was how to betray and attack our own allies. We did not ask what to do if the president becomes a threatening megalomaniac who tells one of our oldest friends, Norway, that because the Nobel Committee in Oslo refuses to give him a trophy, he no longer feels “an obligation to think purely of Peace” and can instead turn his mind toward planning to wage war against NATO.

As my colleague Anne Applebaum wrote today, Donald Trump’s threatening message to the Norwegian prime minister should, in any responsible democracy, force the rest of the U.S. political system to act to control him. The president is talking about an invasion that would require “citizens of a treaty ally,” as she put it, “to become American against their will,” all because he “now genuinely lives in a different reality.” And yet neither Congress nor the sycophants in the White House seem willing to stop him.

The U.S. military is obligated by law, and by every tradition of American decency, to refuse to follow illegal orders. But what about orders that may not be illegal but are clearly immoral and illogical? The president, for example, can order the Pentagon to plan for an invasion of Greenland; such an order would be little more than a direction to organize one more war game. (The military, as it sometimes does during war games, might not even use real place names, but rather use maps that look a lot like the North Atlantic as it organizes an invasion of “Verdegrun” or something.)

But after years of experience with American military officers, I believe that even these hypothetical instructions will sound utterly perverse to men and women who have served with the Danes and other NATO allies. Denmark not only was our ally during the world wars of the 20th century, but also, as my colleague Isaac Stanley-Becker has written, joined our fight against the Taliban after 9/11 and suffered significant casualties for a small nation. Their soldiers bled and died on the same battlefields as Americans...

Return "Mein Kampf" to the library and take out " How to win friends and influence people"

Edited January 21Jan 21 by OldTony

Dear Mein Drumpf,

Thank-you for alerting us to our 'GREAT STUPIDITY' in agreeing with Mauritius a 99 year lease on Diego Garcia at considerable cost to ourselves while allowing your military personnel to squat on the island FOC.

After due deliberation, we have decided to give you the option of continuing to make reasonable use of our facilities at the fair market rate (as determined by our diplomatic research team in Beijing) of $100 billion pa.

If you choose not to take advantage of these terms, please accept this message as a notice of eviction effective immediately, as we have an alternative tenant who is very keen to do business with us.

Edited January 21Jan 21 by sethoflagos

Dear Acting President of all of the Northern and Western Hemispheres

very much obliged for your latest Taco recipe.

Safe passage on your next Emperor I transporter.

from all at the Circle of Nordic Clowns Federation

Just one question Mr President. How will we know when America is great again?

On 1/20/2026 at 9:20 AM, exchemist said:

Senile. 25th amendment?

With all the bullshit his whole cabinet commits on the daily, we need to use Article II, Section 4 to impeach, remove, and convict the whole lot of them for high crimes & misdemeanors. We know there's been bribery, and there is evidence TFG passed NATO secrets to Putin, so treason at the highest level is also there. We don't want Vance, we don't want Johnson. The rest of the succession list is equally horrific, so we need ALL of them booted and sentenced, including that walking anal polyp Stephen Miller. We need to hold them all up to future generations as abominations to humanity.

2 hours ago, Phi for All said:

With all the bullshit his whole cabinet commits on the daily, we need to use Article II, Section 4 to impeach, remove, and convict the whole lot of them for high crimes & misdemeanors. We know there's been bribery, and there is evidence TFG passed NATO secrets to Putin, so treason at the highest level is also there. We don't want Vance, we don't want Johnson. The rest of the succession list is equally horrific, so we need ALL of them booted and sentenced, including that walking anal polyp Stephen Miller. We need to hold them all up to future generations as abominations to humanity.

Nobody on the side of democracy and the Constitution has any real recourse to the law anymore. I think the only thing left is the 2A.

3 hours ago, StringJunky said:

Nobody on the side of democracy and the Constitution has any real recourse to the law anymore. I think the only thing left is the 2A.

I’m not sure the law is quite dead yet. There have been plenty of judgements against Trump’s administration, e.g. most recently the termination of that absurd plastic bimbo Lindsay Halligan. A lot will hang on this forthcoming Supreme Chicken judgement on tariffs. If they do not uphold the constitutional rights of Congress on that, then the US will be well on the way to despotism.

15 hours ago, npts2020 said:

Just one question Mr President. How will we know when America is great again?

Monochromatic populace. All others on the visual spectrum too afraid to come or stay. See also: My friends get richer, be damned everyone else.

12 hours ago, StringJunky said:

Nobody on the side of democracy and the Constitution has any real recourse to the law anymore. I think the only thing left is the 2A.

Not sure our right to arm bears will help us. 25A, maybe. Pens are mightier than the peashooters the 2A allows us. Also, what @exchemist said - SCROTUS hasn't herded all its cats in single file behind Mucilini yet.

1 hour ago, TheVat said:

Not sure our right to arm bears will help us. 25A, maybe. Pens are mightier than the peashooters the 2A allows us. Also, what @exchemist said - SCROTUS hasn't herded all its cats in single file behind Mucilini yet.

Maybe it won't help materially, but, philosophically, once its conditions are met for tyranny by the sitting government, bearing arms against that government is within the law. The moral position lies on the side of those who uphold the Constitution. Pro-Constitutionalists can have peace of mind knowing they are on the right side of the law. That can give people the inner strength and moral fortitude to meet the moment.

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6 minutes ago, StringJunky said:

Maybe it won't help materially, but, philosophically, once its conditions are met for tyranny by the sitting government, bearing arms against that government is within the law. The moral position lies on the side of those who uphold the Constitution. Pro-Constitutionalists can have peace of mind knowing they are on the right side of the law. That can give people the inner strength and moral fortitude to meet the moment.

On the practical end, the issue is that it might give an opening to invoking more extreme measures (such as the insurrection act). I highly doubt that the the 2nd amendment was viable in the face of modern military and weapons.

18 minutes ago, CharonY said:

On the practical end, the issue is that it might give an opening to invoking more extreme measures (such as the insurrection act). I highly doubt that the the 2nd amendment was viable in the face of modern military and weapons.

Won't it depend on how many military members actually support the government?

11 minutes ago, StringJunky said:

Won't it depend on how many military members actually support the government?

Well, there are some depressing precedents surrounding that. It is disappointingly common that the military either just follows orders or usurp power themselves if they don't. And also, military members have been heavily in favor for Trump and at least for the rank and file I am not sure whether that has changed much.

4 hours ago, StringJunky said:

Won't it depend on how many military members actually support the government?

I wondered if you were thinking in that context. I find it hard to read the current military mood. While it's true that Turnip has gotten some support from the rank and file, there's also been some alienation over some of his talk about fighting NATO, and over recent actions violating Geneva convention. (I've heard Air Force guys around here refer to him as Pres. Bone Spurs, so the level of respect is not all it could be) All soldiers do take an oath to defend the Constitution, so there's a question there as to how far they can watch it get crumpled up.

22 minutes ago, TheVat said:

I wondered if you were thinking in that context. I find it hard to read the current military mood. While it's true that Turnip has gotten some support from the rank and file, there's also been some alienation over some of his talk about fighting NATO, and over recent actions violating Geneva convention. (I've heard Air Force guys around here refer to him as Pres. Bone Spurs, so the level of respect is not all it could be) All soldiers do take an oath to defend the Constitution, so there's a question there as to how far they can watch it get crumpled up.

One would hope that there are pro-Constitution military insiders creating networks as we post for them to share intelligence and mutual help within the lower ranks. I think it is imperative that doubters don't feel isolated and have recourse to support and advice. Remember, the regime went nuts when the ranks were advised by Kelly et al not to follow illegal orders. I'm sure Trump's mob will be looking out feverishly for dissent within the ranks

It is all deeply alarming - properly terrifying even - and the 'need' looks entirely fabricated in this case.

If bases for defending North America from Russia or China were needed - which seems very doubtful - all that was needed was to ask nicely, via NATO or through Denmark; via NATO the costs of Greenland defenses would be spread around.

If US mining companies want to mine minerals there they would almost certainly be permitted. They would (horrifying!) have to pay local taxes - not sure to what extent those would go to Greenland vs to Denmark. Anything worth the mining will make profits after taxes.

And if successfully 'conquered' and that is allowed by the EU that would be deeply alarming for Canada, Mexico, Cuba (and other Caribbean nations). Alarming for everyone. As an Australian should we be worried that our resources could be enticing to a USA that has abandoned any pretense promoting international cooperation? Coal and gas and iron ore and uranium - rare Earth's too - as well as all our wheat and beef and etc... A bit ironically I have less fear of China doing that to Australia than the USA.

I note that so far Australia's government is mostly keeping heads down and mouths closed, apart from assuring everyone treaty agreements with the USA remain strongly supported and we are still 'buying' those nuclear submarines at inflated prices. Personally I'd like something that would reassure the rest of the world that Australia's government thinks what the US is doing is deeply objectionable as well as dangerous.

2 hours ago, Ken Fabian said:

I note that so far Australia's government is mostly keeping heads down and mouths closed, apart from assuring everyone treaty agreements with the USA remain strongly supported and we are still 'buying' those nuclear submarines at inflated prices. Personally I'd like something that would reassure the rest of the world that Australia's government thinks what the US is doing is deeply objectionable as well as dangerous.

The problem is, look how many treaties and agreements our President has unilaterally changed without notice, even ones he had negotiated (think trade agreements with Mexico and Canada). The speech in Davos to some of the most prominent people in the world was identical to the ones he gives to yokels in rural America; the election (2020 but not 2024) was stolen, US gets nothing out of NATO, immigrants are destroying the fabric of society, US is "entitled" to Greenland and Canada would be better off as a state, "sleepy Joe Biden was the cause of everyone's problems and I've solved them all, I've solved 8 wars and should have gotten a Nobel prize, etc, etc. for a solid hour. Really happy it was just background noise while doing something actually useful. I couldn't imagine having to sit there and seem to pay attention, he reminded me of Biden during the debate that caused the latter's exit from the race.

Please spare a thought for the Translator at Davos who had to translate "If it was not for me, you would all be speaking German" into German.


Also, well done to Democratic president Harry S Truman for seeing this potential issue in 1951 and striking a deal with Greenland.

Dear Mister President, pleased to see that you have recovered from the run of disabilities that I read in the press prevented you from serving in the military during the Vietnam war.

As for Afghanistan, like many in the UK I have known someone who gave his life. He was a 19 year old friend of my grandson. It so happens his last moments were filmed and can be seen in the following video which was made by a BBC crew who were making a documentary in Afghanistan at the time.

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Edited January 23Jan 23 by OldTony

2 hours ago, John Cuthber said:

Please spare a thought for the Translator at Davos who had to translate "If it was not for me, you would all be speaking German" into German.

LOL. Brilliant. And how amazing that the 47th is able to always wrap himself in the glory of others. I guess that's the magic that happens when you courageously overcome bone spurs.

19 hours ago, Ken Fabian said:

note that so far Australia's government is mostly keeping heads down and mouths closed, apart from assuring everyone treaty agreements with the USA remain strongly supported and we are still 'buying' those nuclear submarines at inflated prices. Personally I'd like something that would reassure the rest of the world that Australia's government thinks what the US is doing is deeply objectionable as well as dangerous.

I'm hoping the Mark Carney virus is highly contagious.