Here is the letter that trump sent to Norway linking Nobel Peace Prize to USA takeover of Greenland.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

trump is mentally ill

Link to tweet

CONFIRMED: Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has acknowledged Trump’s letter is real.

The letter reportedly ties Norway’s Nobel Peace Prize decision to Greenland, questions Denmark’s “right of ownership,” and declares the world isn’t secure unless the U.S. has “Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”

PBS’s Nick Schifrin reported the text was obtained from multiple officials and circulated by NSC staff to European ambassadors.

It reads like a meme.

It’s not.

Here is another version

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. ...

[malaise]

2. Stark raving mad

and dangerous to boot.

[Prairie Gates]

3. The grammar! My eyes!

Some close reading. I'm ignoring Trump's goofy capitalization, which has been well-explained as a pure power move to demonstrate that he's not even held to normal conventions of written language. I'm also not commenting on the italicization of the second letter, which is horrible and unprofessional: italicized typefaces should be reserved for highlighting a point; they should not be used to mimic handwriting, as they are here.

Why Dear Jonas? Why use a colon rather than a comma in the salutation if the salutation is so informal?

The "PLUS" transforms the second clause in the first paragraph into another dependent clause, so the whole paragraph is sentence fragment, despite its length:

Considering A and B, (main clause goes here). There is no main clause.

Why do they have a "right of ownership" anyway? I have seen many trolls on the internet, including - ahem - close to home, pretending to care about Inuit independence and Danish colonialism in order to forward this "why do they have a right to ownership" line. Be aware of that.

The comma after "documents" is a comma splice. You cannot connect independent clauses with a comma.

A boat landed there. Trump doesn't use the proper term: a ship. But notice that there is one Danish "boat" and plural boats attributed to the "we."

Trump's punctuation marks are as goofy as his capitalization, but the exclamation mark after "Thank you" stands out.

Notice that Trump lists himself as the 45th President, not the 47th. This is part of his continuing strategy to pretend the Biden term didn't exist.

[Ocelot II]

4. Someone has to be typing these letters for him - I can't imagine that he does it himself.

So is the minion who does the typing as functionally illiterate as he is (never mind the subtle stuff like colons vs. commas and boats vs. ships), or does he dictate a letter that the minion types up and he reviews to be sure it's what he believes to be correct? Just apart from the insane content, I don't know how such an ungrammatical, totally unprofessional mess can leave the desk of the so-called President.

[Blue Owl]

5. Holy Fuck -- Gramps McPedo has gone plum crazy

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6. MaddowBlog-Trump's weird letter to Norway's prime minister renews 25th Amendment talk

The last time the president confronted chatter about the 25th Amendment, it was in the immediate aftermath Jan. 6.

The last time Trump confronted public chatter about the 25th Amendment, it was in the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6.

It’s good to see at least some evidence of this returning to the fore. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-20T13:57:34.069Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-weird-letter-to-norways-prime-minister-renews-25th-amendment-talk

It was a message that might as well have been written in crayon. A day after Donald Trump announced new tariffs on several European countries — economic penalties that would remain in place, he said, until his demands to acquire Greenland are met — the president sent a truly ridiculous message to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, in which the Republican suggested part of his Greenland crusade is rooted in his failure to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

In fact, according to Trump, because Norway hurt his feelings by failing to give him an award he wanted but did not earn, he no longer feels “an obligation to think purely of Peace.”.....

The senator added regarding the American president, “He isn’t OK. He’s degraded significantly in the last year and he’s about to get us into a war with our allies.” Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii sounded a similar note, adding, “I don’t see how you can be a serious person and not find this extremely worrisome. He is not stable at all and his reality is warped.”

One senator, however, took an additional step down the same path. HuffPost reported:

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is calling on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet and Vice President JD Vance to remove him from office via the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution over his latest threat to Greenland. […]

‘Invoke the 25th Amendment,’ Markey replied, referring to a constitutional process by which the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet can declare a president unable to perform his duties. If the president contests that declaration, Congress would ultimately decide whether he remains in power.

....If the American president is aware of such concerns about his mental stability and fitness for office, he’s not showing it. On the contrary, hours after his bonkers message to the Norwegian prime minister reached the public, Trump leaked a private message from French President Emmanuel Macron and used his social media platform to promote weird images, including one that showed a map of the Western Hemisphere in which Greenland, Canada and Venezuela are under American control.

Lars-Christian Brask, deputy speaker of the Danish parliament, told Sky News, “If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate and the House to start to take control of the political power in America, because with this mad and erratic behavior, you have to ask the question: Is the president capable of running the United States?”

Under the circumstances, that need not be a rhetorical question.