Charlie Sykes: “Yes, it’s real. He really did write that letter to the Norwegian PM, whining (once again) about not getting the Nobel Prize and declaring that since he didn’t get the Prize, ‘I no longer feel any obligation to think purely of Peace.’ And no, you are not the crazy ones if you think we have fallen down a black hole of mad king dementia.”

“‘Unhinged’ doesn’t really capture this moment, where we find ourselves in a full-blown crisis because our president is butt-hurt about losing an award no one was ever going to give him. And now we are left actually wondering if our military commanders would obey an order to fire upon our closest allies.”

Anne Applebaum: “One could observe many things about this document. One is the childish grammar, including the strange capitalizations… Another is the loose grasp of history…”

“Yet what matters isn’t the specific phrases, but the overall message: Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Norwegian government and certainly not the Danish government, determines the winner of that prize. Yet Trump now not only blames Norway for failing to give it to him, but is using it as a justification for an invasion of Greenland.”

“Think about where this is leading.”

Katie Martin: “We should be in no doubt now that Donald Trump is ripping up global markets. The only question is how far the rest of the world goes in using it against him.”

“We really should have seen it coming. Before Trump retook the White House a year ago, one of his key financial lieutenants, Stephen Miran, wrote a detailed if baffling paper about a so-called Mar-a-Lago Accord — a recognition that for the US, the global hegemon, everything is ‘intertwined.’ Trade, finance and defense are three legs of the same stool, and each can be used to reinforce the other in the interests of America First.”

President Trump was back on Truth Social criticizing Denmark for supposedly failing to “get the Russian threat out of Greenland” and warning its leaders: “Now it is time, and it will be done!!!”

Playbook: “The irony, of course, is that Russian strategists are gleeful at this schism opening up in the Western alliance. Driving a wedge between the U.S. and western Europe has been a Moscow pipedream for the past 80 years, but it never looked remotely likely until now.”

French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly asked the EU to activate its “Anti-Coercion Instrument,” known as the “trade bazooka,” CNN reports.

It could block some of America’s access to EU markets or impose export controls, among other potential countermeasures.

Playbook: “Trump’s decision Saturday to unleash economic warfare on America’s European and NATO allies as they resist his advances on Greenland has tipped an awkward diplomatic clash into a crisis, and a reeling Europe is now weighing its response.”

Wall Street Journal: “Behind the scenes, European officials are searching for ways to respond to the president without escalating the situation into a broader trade spat or capitulating on security in the face of his trade threats.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to join President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” the committee that will oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, CNN reports.

President Trump has told Norway’s prime minister in a letter that he no longer feels obligated ‘to think purely of Peace’ because he had not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and he repeated his demand for control of Greenland,” Reuters reports.

Wrote Trump: “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.”

He added: “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.”

“President Trump video-conferenced into the World Economic Forum a year ago demanding lower interest rates from the global elites gathered and threatening tariffs against those making products anywhere but America,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“This year, he is heading in person to the Alpine summit with an entourage of U.S. officials against a backdrop of a world in flux, in large part because of his own unconventional actions at home and abroad. Suddenly, an event once dismissed as a talking shop for executives who think they can solve the world’s problems has become a must-attend gathering that people are eager to attend.”

“Trump is expected to address the confab in person for the first time in six years. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and special envoy Steve Witkoff also help make up what is likely to be the biggest U.S. delegation in years.”