The letter from Donald Trump to Jonas Gahr Støre was published by Nick Schifrin, a reporter for PBS, and was quickly confirmed by Støre himself.
“Dear Jonas,” Trump begins. “Given that your country decided not to award me the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping over eight wars, I no longer feel bound to think only about peace, although that will always be in the foreground,” he writes. “I can now think about what is good and appropriate for the United States of America.”
The letter then connects these ideas to Trump's now well-known line of questioning about whether Greenland belongs to Denmark.
"I can confirm that this is a message I received from President Trump yesterday afternoon," Støre told VG.
It came in response to a short message to President Trump from me earlier in the day, on my behalf and that of Finnish President Alexander Stubb.
In the letter, Støre and Stubb requested a phone call with Trump, but Trump responded with the letter. The U.S. allegedly also spread the same message to “other leaders in NATO,” according to Støre.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate is chosen by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which consists of five people appointed by the country's parliament. However, Trump does not seem to accept that the Norwegian government is not involved in the process.
"Norway is in complete control of this, it doesn't matter what they say," Trump told NBC on Monday afternoon.
