The President of the United States just sent a letter to Norway’s prime minister threatening to abandon peace because he didn’t win a Nobel Prize he wasn’t even eligible for. And now he’s using it as justification to potentially destabilize NATO and seize Greenland.
Read the unhinged diplomatic communiqué for yourself:
“Dear Jonas,” the 79-year-old president wrote to Norwegian 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… 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.”
He signed off: “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
OF COURSE, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is independent from Norway’s government and couldn’t have awarded Trump even if they wanted to—he literally violated their eligibility rules. And those “8 Wars PLUS” he claims to have stopped? They mostly exist exclusively in his aging mind.
“Now it is time, and it will be done!!!” Trump posted over the weekend, continuing his bizarre obsession with taking over Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark that—shockingly—does not want to be American.
BUT BUT BUT: The letter’s claim that Denmark alone protects Greenland is factually insane. The entire NATO alliance—continental Europe, the U.S., the U.K., and Canada—collectively defends member nations. That’s literally the point of mutual defense. Trump is threatening to blow up the alliance that actually keeps Greenland safe from the very Russian and Chinese threats he’s invoking.
THE DETAILS: This isn’t an isolated incident. The internet has been chronicling Trump’s deteriorating mental state for the past year: bruised hands, swollen ankles, falling asleep during high-stakes meetings, evidence that at least one doctor says is consistent with stroke effects. He survives on fast food and aspirin, stays up doom-scrolling until the early morning hours, and spent Christmas day rage-posting nearly 200 times on Truth Social.
Meanwhile, he’s occupying American cities with paramilitary forces, fantasizing about canceling elections, trying to lock up political rivals, and starting wars without congressional approval. He’s even creating a “Board of Peace” organization with a $1 billion buy-in—and Vladimir Putin has been invited to join. So the Russian threat is apparently grave enough to justify seizing Greenland, but not grave enough to exclude Putin from Trump’s peace club.
WHY IT MATTERS: The opinion piece argues these aren’t just impeachable offenses—they’re evidence of someone mentally “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” The 25th Amendment exists precisely for this scenario. Section 4 allows the vice president and a majority of Cabinet members to declare the president incapacitated.
Will it happen? Trump’s Cabinet was hand-picked for loyalty, and congressional Republicans remain terrified of crossing him. But the author argues that failing to even seriously discuss invoking the 25th Amendment means indulging “the dangerous alternative reality that Trump and his supporters are so desperate to construct.”
BOTTOM LINE: The constitutional tool exists. The evidence of incapacity is mounting. The only question is whether anyone with the power to act has the courage to use it.