How Trump’s Nobel obsession is upending geopolitics

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  Steve, I'm reminded of that line from Cool Runnings.

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  Have you seen Cool Runnings lately about the Jamaican popslets?

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  It's been a while, yes.

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  It's a great movie considering the Winter Olympics are coming up,

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  but there's a line that John Candy's character says,

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  a gold medal is a wonderful thing,

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  but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.

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  And I wonder if the same kind of logic applies here to the Nobel Peace Prize.

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  Well, I can't say that I have an opinion about that,

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  but I can tell you I'm sure the president would not agree.

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  President Donald Trump has been interested in winning the Nobel Peace Prize for a very long time.

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  But that fixation took an even more astonishing turn over the weekend,

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  when a text exchange between Trump and Norwegian Prime Minister Yuna Skarstura was shared by PBS.

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  The two leaders had been messaging about Greenland,

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  the Danish territory that Trump really wants the U.S.

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  to own.

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  Trump has threatened to place tariffs on European countries that oppose a U.S.

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  takeover of Greenland.

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  And as justification for this, he brought up the Nobel Peace Prize that was not given to him.

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  He said since he was not given the prize last year,

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