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Trump news at a glance: president reveals the snub behind his Greenland ambitions

An anti-Maga cap embroidered with a slogan reading 'Now it's NUUK!' and 'Make America go away' is displayed for sale in Copenhagen
An anti-Maga cap embroidered with a slogan reading 'Now it's NUUK!' and 'Make America go away' is displayed for sale in Copenhagen. Photograph: Thomas Traasdahl/EPA

An extraordinary text message exchange between Donald Trump and Norway’s prime minister has revealed the US president no longer felt “an obligation to think purely of peace” because he didn’t get the Nobel peace prize, as he again declined to rule out seizing Greenland by force.

The disclosure of the exchange with prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre comes amid a concerted push by Trump to grab the territory, a largely self-governing part of Denmark. In recent weeks, he has said the US would take control of the Arctic island “one way or the other” and, over the weekend: “Now it is time, and it will be done!!!”

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