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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jon Henley and Patrick Wintour

Donald Trump links Greenland threats to Nobel snub as EU trade war looms

Donald Trump with María Corina Machado's Nobel peace prize medal
Donald Trump with the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who presented him with her Nobel peace prize medal. Photograph: Daniel Torok/The White House/Reuters

Donald Trump has linked his repeated threats to seize control of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel peace prize, as transatlantic tensions over the Arctic island escalated further and threatened to rekindle a trade war with the EU.

In an extraordinary text message sent on Sunday to the Norwegian prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, the US president wrote that after being snubbed for the prize, he no longer felt the need to think “purely of peace”.

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