Trump is using language of an abusive husband

The US president's leaked letter to Norway's prime minister, Jonas Gahr Store, isn’t just “typical” Trump — it’s toxic, too.

- Victoria Richards, The Independent

Jonas Gahr Støre

It reads as a chest-beating, thundering display of silverback aggression; designed to belittle its target, undermine them—and coerce or manipulate them into doing what he wants. And it’s likely to send a shiver down the spine of anyone who's been in (or witness to) an abusive or controlling relationship. The letter, which was apparently forwarded to multiple European ambassadors in Washington before being leaked to PBS News, reads: “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, | 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. | 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.”