Or pretending to sulk. Who knows his mind?
From The New York Times (gift link):
President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a text message he sent to Norway’s prime minister over the weekend.Nothing about Martin Luther King Jr. Day on the occupant’s social media. Of course not.
Jonas Gahr Store, Norway’s leader, received the text message on Sunday, an official in the prime minister’s office said on Monday.
“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,” Mr. Trump wrote in the message, which was first published by PBS.
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I don't have the book at hand, but during Trump's first term, syndicated columnist Gwynne Dyer noted that Trump had, for whatever reason destroyed (the?) three legacies of President Obama, including the one controlling Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Dyer implied that Trump was being weird about Obama. So maybe the peace prize thing is from weird Obama-jealousy. Meanwhile I haven't read of anyone else making Obama connection.
In the States, his Obama envy/resentment about the Nobel often gets mentioned, along with his anger about Obama's mockery of him at the White House correspondents dinner. He has often talked about Obama getting the Nobel for doing nothing. What a small, petty man he is.
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