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LONDON \u2014 President Donald Trump warned Europe that he no longer feels \u201cthe obligation to think purely of peace,\u201d linking his hostile campaign to seize Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>, Norway’s leader has said.
The message was the latest move in the spiraling transatlantic tensions between the United States and Europe, which vowed Monday not to be blackmailed by Trump’s intensifying pressure to take over the Danish territory.<\/a>
As European powers scrambled to respond to Trump’s promise to implement tariffs on countries that stand in his way, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re went public with the president’s warning.
\u201cConsidering 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,\u201d Trump said in the message, the text of which was first reported by PBS<\/a> and confirmed as accurate in a statement by the Norwegian leader<\/a>.
The White House did not immediately respond to an overnight request for comment from NBC News. Later, Trump was guarded when NBC News asked how far he\u2019d go to take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory.
Asked if he would use force to seize Greenland, the president said, \u201cNo comment,\u201d in a brief telephone interview.
European governments weighed a strong response to their longtime ally ahead of an emergency summit in Brussels on Thursday.
\u201cGermany and France agree: We will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed,\u201d German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said. \u201cBlackmail between allies of 250 years, blackmail between friends, is obviously unacceptable,\u201d French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said at the same event.
\u201cWe Europeans must make it clear: The limit has been reached,\u201d Klingbeil said.
Later Monday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz cut a more measured tone, telling an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that we “want to avoid any escalation in this dispute at all if possible.\u201d
European governments are considering a range of options, including their own tariffs.
One is the European Union’s \u201cbazooka\u201d \u2014 officially known as the Anti-Coercion Instrument, which has never been used before.
This allows E.U. countries to take retaliatory action against any rivals seen as threatening the bloc, and could involve restricting American access to tenders or investment proposals.
Some geopolitical and historical experts believe Trump\u2019s pursuit of Greenland has now become the lowest ebb of transatlantic relations since the Suez Crisis of 1956, when the U.S. pressured Britain, France and Israel to withdraw after invading Egypt.
It was against this recent decline in relations <\/strong>that Trump\u2019s message to the Norwegian leader was made public.
\u201cI can confirm that this is a text message that I received yesterday afternoon from President Trump,\u201d the Norwegian leader said. He said it came in response to an initial communication from himself and Finnish President Alexander Stubb, in which they conveyed their \u201copposition to his announced tariff increases.\u201d
St\u00f8re also pointed out that \u2014 regardless of its merits \u2014 this backlash was misdirected, as the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and not the Norwegian government.
Trump has made no secret of his desire to become a Nobel laureate, or of his displeasure when it was instead awarded to the Venezuelan opposition activist Mar\u00eda Corina Machado last month.
Machado presented Trump with the award last week, after he left her out of his plans for Venezuela following the capture of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said that the coveted prize cannot “even symbolically, be passed on or further distributed.”
Trump says that he wants Greenland to counter what he calls a growing threat from Russia and China.
The U.S. already has huge leeway to establish military bases on the Arctic island or strike deals to mine its vast mineral resources.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended Trump\u2019s moves<\/a>, telling NBC’s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d<\/a> on Sunday that the president was using \u201cthe economic might of the U.S. to avoid a hot war.\u201d He said the goal was to avoid a future \u201cnational emergency.\u201d
On Monday, Bessent addressed the issue of Trump\u2019s feelings aboutt the Nobel.
It was a complete \u201ccanard\u201d to think Trump\u2019s actions on Greenland were due to the prize, Bessent told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, according to Reuters.
Alexander Smith is a senior reporter for\u00a0NBC News Digital based in London.
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