Kamal Ghorui
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday changed his long-standing stance on Nobel Prize, and said that he “did not care” about the peace prize. This comes only a day after he wrote to the Norway PM in which he had that said he no longer felt bound to “think purely of Peace” on Greenland after the Nobel Committee’s decision not to award him the prize.Up until now, the US president had repeatedly insisted that he deserved the award and even campaigned for it last year, claiming credit for helping resolve “eight wars.”
“I don’t care about the Nobel Prize. First of all, a very fine woman felt that I deserved it and really wanted me to have the Nobel Prize, and I appreciate that. If anybody thinks that Norway doesn’t control the Nobel Prize, they are just kidding,” Trump told a reporter.Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado presented Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize medal last week, an award she was conferred months ago.In the letter Monday, Trump said, “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.”Norwegian PM Støre responded, emphasising that the Nobel Peace Prize decision does not rest with the Norwegian government.Trump’s letter to Støre comes after a series of public statements in which he accused Denmark of failing to counter what he describes as a Russian security threat in the Arctic.
