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President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]

“Dear Jonas: Considering 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. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”

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[–] bonenode@piefed.social 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You know, I've been thinking all this time that things won't get better if someone kills this guy. I changed my mind, Iran, please do your thing instead of just writing threats...

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A large part of the power comes from the cult of personality, they don't have someone they can just swap in.

That and he's surrounded himself with people who all think they're gonna be the one who comes out on top when he's gone. They're probably most likely to blow up very publicly and eat each other rather than actually succeed.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

..oh, that is definitely going to be a 3 buckets of popcorn show..

..bring plenty of butter and salt.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 15 points 1 week ago

Even if it doesn't get better in a global sense, I'll still feel quite happy that day.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Denmark, any NATO members, whoever wants to... Might win a Nobel Peace prize

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

I'm gonna go against the grain and say no, it would in fact be bad for everyone involved if someone killed Trump. Trump is evil, sure, but he's also stupid and there are plenty of non-stupid evil people who would want to take his place. Or, now that I think about it, it might good for Iran, but it'd definitely be terrible for everyone else.