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A Nobel Dispute With Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre Offers a Window Into Trump’s Governing Style

 I n the theater of global diplomacy, few acts have been as revealing—or as absurd—as Donald Trump’s ongoing feud with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre over the Nobel Peace Prize.  What began as a misunderstanding has morphed into a full-blown diplomatic farce, offering a rare, unfiltered glimpse into how Trump governs: with grievance, spectacle, and a relentless need for personal validation.  What the Nobel spat with Norway ultimately exposes is more than a simple misunderstanding of how international institutions work. It offers a glimpse into Trump’s core approach to power. He does not treat the presidency as a trust, bound by democratic norms and independent systems. He treats it as a stage for personal validation, where every exchange—whether with a foreign leader, a federal agency, or a central bank—is something to be bent, claimed, or “won.” That perspective also sheds light on why Trump remains so preoccupied with his feud with Joe Biden. To him, the pres...

Fedlan News Calls It First: In Davos, Trump Signals No Military Plans for Greenland Fedlan News | FN Newsroom

While CNN, and other major networks flooded the airwaves with breathless coverage, parsing every stray remark Trump made about Greenland and wrapping it in a fog-of-war narrative, Fedlan News chose a different path. Instead of amplifying speculation, it offered a more measured view—laying out why the idea of the U.S. military attacking Greenland is not just unlikely, but implausible. That context mattered when President Donald Trump stepped onto the stage at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday. The audience was already primed for a speech that would drift well beyond interest rates and trade balances. Trump did not disappoint. What followed was a familiar mix of swagger, grievance, and off-the-cuff geopolitics. And tucked into it, almost casually, was the revival of one of the strangest notions of his presidency: the idea that the United States should acquire Greenland.  Throughout his speech, Trump repeatedly took aim at European leaders, accusing them of complacency, hypocrisy,...