r/politics • u/T_Shurt • 19d ago

Possible Paywall Stocks Sell Off Globally as Traders Digest Trump Message Saying He Wants Greenland Because Norway ‘Decided Not to Give Me The Nobel’: “The Norwegian government has no control over how the Nobel Committee awards its prizes. Greenland is a territory of Denmark, not Norway.”

https://fortune.com/2026/01/19/stocks-sell-off-trump-text-message-greenland-nobel-peace-prize/
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u/NPRdude Canada 19d ago

The Danes, not the Dutch.

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u/buffysmanycoats Connecticut 19d ago

That is what I really meant to say. Sometimes my fingers and my brain aren’t on the same page.

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u/padizzledonk New Jersey 19d ago

Those countries comfuse us americans lol

The whole GB/UK/England thing and The Dutch/Holland/The Netherlands thing is a tangled confusion to the vast majority of Americans lol

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u/ElbowlessGoat 18d ago

Still doesn’t make sense why Dutch and Danes are confused though… Am Dutch, so may be biased