Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said there was no connection between Donald Trump’s quest for a Nobel Prize and his campaign to take over Greenland, even though the president himself linked the two in a message to his Norwegian counterpart.
“I think it’s a complete canard that there’s any kind of equivalence with the Nobel Prize,” Bessent told CNBC’s Squawk Box from the World Economic Forum in Davos. “This has been on the president’s mind since his first term. It’s been on the presidential mind for 150 years, 160 years [that] the U.S. has been trying to acquire Greenland. This is not something new.”
