Well, President Donald J. Trump finally has his Nobel Peace Prize. Although the medal commemorating the prize can change hands, the committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute have made it clear that “[o]nce a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others.”Asked today why he would want someone else’s Nobel Prize, he answered: “Well, she offered it to me. I’m president, I’ll just take ‘em.”And then, of course, Trump says he wants Greenland, a resource-rich autonomous island that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. “I look at a corner, I say, ‘I gotta get that store for the building that I’m building,’ et cetera. As NATO allies, Greenland and the United States have always cooperated on defense matters—indeed, the U.S. Pituffik Space Base is operating in Greenland currently.

Source: New York Times January 17, 2026 08:46 UTC