Every day his stupidity surprises me more than the last.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
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The only correct response is "WE DON'T NEGOTIATE WITH PEDOPHILES", then refuse all communications with the Trump regime. Narcissists are empowered with attention and recognition, so deny them both. Trump and the entire Republican Nazi party will never relinquish power, and will not be neutralised without violence. The Democrat parties majority are financed by the exact same criminally corrupt psychopath elite; they did not release the files either, to protect their wealthy pedophile donors. They are a controlled opposition who have consistently blocked or delayed legitimate progress whenever they've had full control.
The goal should be to implode America's domestic economy ASAP so the average American suffers the consequences of their own ignorant imperial boomerang and, hopefully, does something about it; containing future violence within US borders. Isolate them and let them deal with the consequences while their cancerous influence is purged from our own economies and politics.
But... all our political classes are also oligarch-financed-bootlickers who grovel at the feet of capital, so they'll continue to protect and defend nazis, pedophiles, psychopaths, narcissists, and authoritarianism, in general— allow their continued corporate-oligarch infiltration and corruption of our democracies — on behalf of their own greed and egomania in service to the almighty dollar.
I have zero doubt multiple EU members have copies of the files, and have known Trump is an intelligence-protected pedo for longer than he's been politically relevant. Late stage capitalist oligarchy is one big club of unlimited greed and narcissism, and we ain't in it.
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Aside from the actual message he is sending, this level of English is what I would expect from a 7 year old.
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After the child rapist in chief is dead (hopefully, soon), does anyone in that shit country expect we take them seriously when they talk to the world after the complete shitshow Mango Hitler is doing?
I mean, this is something I expect from a toddler that has zero negotiation skills but not from the fucking president of a superpower.
If he was the president of a less armed country, the world would be laughing at him openly
As someone (unfortunately) in the US, I fully expect the reputation of the US to be ruined for the rest of my life. I'm lucky to be in a decently progressive (by US standards) state, but I really would rather be anywhere but here in the US. We are fucked.
If it’s any consolation, Afghan, Iraq, Guantanamo and torture already meant the US was considered a turd world country. The only difference is Americans are now seeing what we’ve known for decades.
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Yeah I’ve got some bad news for you. For as long as I’ve been alive, at least in Canada, we’ve not had a high opinion of the US. And we like you guys more than most countries.
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Everyone who is not in a political position laughs at him openly.
The fact that any person reads this letter and thinks: "Wow, he is such a good diplomat, I am glad this man is in charge!" deeply troubles me.
This is some third grader shit.
Oh, he's saying it's THEIR FAULT he doesn't want peace anymore?
and WE were the snowflakes who wanted a prize for everything
"DON'T MAKE ME HIT YOU!"
{smack}
"NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE MADE ME DO!"
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I've known six year old children to have more maturity than this. "I'm going to invade Greenland because I didn't get a Nobel Peace Prize" is what this boils down to.
A literal child is in charge of the most powerful single country in the world.
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The fuck is the Norwegian prime minister to do with that load of shit? He's not even on the committee.
Apparently Trump doesn't even know what the fuck the Nobel prize is.
From what the various people who have explained to him how it works says, it seems that he does know.
He just doesn't understand why the Norwegian government won't be corrupt and influence it, because to him that's an obvious thing you'd do when you have power and influence.
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He thinks he stopped 8 wars? Which 8 wars?
He stopped them so early you haven't even heard of them! /s
I assume he dreamt about starting 8 new wars but didn't (or couldn't or forgot) and thus they were 'stopped'.
World War 3 to 10. He was going to start them but got distracted with an underage beauty pageant.
Maybe those he didn't start.
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Aside from the horrible implications of this letter. Can we address his writing style? For a man who was educated at the insitutions he attended, he sure doesn't show it. I know we are accustomed to reading his tweets, but Jesus Christ this is embarassing.
It appears he is just dictating letters to heads of state and not even having anyone give it a once over before slapping it on the white house letterhead and sending it.
These are the meandering thoughts of a lunatic.
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How does this guy even manage to put on his pants in the morning?
As most people who wear diapers, he has them put on by someone else.
Glancing over the rest of the comments, I don't see somebody explicitly pointing out how we know Trump is full of shit and also dumb as shit in this letter.
First, he campaigned on "America First," so he never felt an obligation to think "purely" of peace. It's just a lie.
Second, he's outright saying that he previously was giving the Nobel Prize committee an insane amount of control over American foreign policy because he wanted to be a Nobel Peace Prize. This is a dumb as shit thing to admit.
Third, is it Russia or China who we're worried about taking over Greenland? Does Trump not understand that these are two different countries? Surely if he is working on some sort of intel, he'd specifically choose one of them to be worried about. I think this demonstrates that there's no real intel about this, and he's simply lying.
Fourth, why isn't he waiting until Russia or China actually do something? If they actually did something militarily in Greenland, then America could swoop in and save the day. And then, he'd also have some actual reasoning behind statements that he could use to justify taking control of Greenland.
Also, NATO has done tons of stuff for the US. Why does America have the largest military budget in the world? It's because America has chosen to maintain military presence all over the world. NATO has always supported American foreign policy.
Everything Trump is saying in this letter reeks of bullshit.
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Is this satire?
Nope, it's real.
May a blood clot finally find its way...
I'm not sure it's even possible for me to cringe harder at this point
Every single 12 year old I know is more emotionally mature than the US president and it isn't even close.
Quick someone tell him no other president in history has ever immolated themselves. We might get lucky.
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for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS,
So....9? Is 9 the number you were looking for? Maybe 10? I assume this is based on him starting a war and bumbling it back out of a war between the time this was sent and received.
Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China,
Yeah, if only there was some sort of military force treaty organization that covered the North Atlantic so friends could help friends.
I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding,
Comedic line of the decade
The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.
lol, sorry, no, this is the comedic line of the decade.
The administration is still in violation of the law releasing the Epstein files.
Comical levels of stupidity aside, this message worries me. It really sounds like Trump is trying to justify being about to start a war to someone who he thinks is responsible for issuing out Nobel prizes.
Okay but why print his drunken texts? They mean nothing.
It's just embarrassing for everyone involved.
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That sounds a lot like a manipulative abusive husband. Oh wait he literally is.
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...
Even if it doesn't get better in a global sense, I'll still feel quite happy that day.
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.
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Fucking insanity as he tries to outdo himself in being fucking outrageous EVERY DAMN DAY to the point of not only pissing off everyone, but also giving others something to be entertained about... I can only imagine the laughter coming out of Kremlin.
Norway. The country which once managed to destroy a brand-new enemy battleship with guns and torpedoes never used in decades.
Trump is such a fucking loser
He's acting like me when I can't get a diplomatic win in civ 5 💀
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-letter-greenland-nobel-peace-b2903022.html
article in English, with full letter.
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trump rn
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