Today’s notice: So much for Trump the peacemaker. Don’t try betting at the White House. Even Democrats are embracing executive power. And: DOJ puts Don Lemon “on notice.”
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No more Mr. Nice Guy: President Donald Trump told Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in a weekend text message that he was pushing to acquire Greenland, at least partially because he had not yet been given the Nobel Peace Prize, saying the snub had freed him to no longer “think purely of Peace.”
Talk about bad timing: The stunning message, and a previous threat to impose across-the-board tariffs on a host of European nations unless negotiations on a sale of the semi-autonomous Danish territory begin promptly, came just as a bipartisan congressional delegation was wrapping up a trip to Denmark, part of a last-ditch effort to turn down the temperature between the two longtime allies. (Never mind that Norway’s government does not dole out Nobel Prizes).
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So much for that: “The fact that a small handful of ‘advisors’ are actively pushing for coercive action to seize the territory of an ally is beyond stupid,” Sen. Thom Tillis, one of just two Republicans who joined the trip, posted on X.