Overview
- Jonas Gahr Støre publicly described receiving a reply from President Trump that cited being denied the Nobel Peace Prize and asserted a demand for “Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”
- Støre had texted Trump proposing to “de‑escalate” the crisis after the president threatened tariffs on European countries supporting Denmark over Greenland.
- The Norwegian leader said NATO colleagues alerted him minutes later that the White House had circulated Trump’s message to multiple European embassies.
- Støre recounted reminding Trump that Nobel selections are made by an independent committee and said the president “doesn’t listen on that frequency.”
- He said he declined to engage in a back‑and‑forth, replying only that he received the message and still believed a conversation would be useful.