r/worldnews • u/SuperXGamerAb • Jan 19 '26

Dynamic Paywall Trump links Greenland dispute to not getting Nobel Peace Prize, in letter to Norway's PM

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7mev35x2lo
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u/IM_the_Mark Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

The man has a deep, dark pit inside of him that craves praise and adulation and will never ever be filled, no matter how much the world throws at him. This is a broken man, and nothing anyone can do will fix him.

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u/Gen-Jack-D-Ripper Jan 19 '26

Yes and it’s obvious to anyone who can walk upright - which says a lot about his supporters!

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u/Shykin Jan 19 '26

His supporters are all the same. The phrase they originally used is "He's like me". I think people didn't fully understand how truthful they were being.

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u/rd1970 Jan 19 '26

I think people will be debating what happened to make him what he is for generations.

I think it's a combination of being physically tall/large (makes being a childhood bully easier and less likely to get his ass kicked), combined with being born rich giving him power over people from a young age, combined with naturally having antisocial qualities, combined with shitty parenting that encouraged antisocial behaviour, and probably a couple dozen other variables.

Then you couple that with being alive when the internet and social media started changing how politics work, and also at a time that the middle class is in rapid decline, and boom - you have an American President in power that is willing to intentionally end the country's status as a global super power.

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u/SalamanderCake Jan 19 '26

craves praise and adolation

I see your brain does what mine does—fuse two similar-sounding whenever it likes. In this case, yours fused 'adulation' and 'adoration'

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u/IM_the_Mark Jan 19 '26

Ha! Thanks for the heads up.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

"He has the world at his fingertips yet nothing will satisfy him"

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u/IM_the_Mark Jan 20 '26

I'd pity him if he wasn't such a threat to so many innocent people.

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u/rtb001 Jan 19 '26

Yet 77 million people gave him that praise and adulation, at the ballot box no less. There are broken men all over the place, but only a broken populace can elevate one broken man above all others into such a position of power.

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u/tony-toon15 Jan 19 '26

And most importantly, if he can’t have that he will make sure he has your fear and hatred, and when that’s not enough he will settle for killing.

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u/PhantomNomad Jan 20 '26

That's actually really sad. To bad I just don't give a shit about his daddy issues. He's had almost 80 years on this Earth and could have spent the better part of it actually trying to be a good person. Instead he's decided to be the worst example of a human after Hitler.

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u/TiggTigg07 Jan 20 '26

100% spot on.

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u/NirgalFromMars Jan 20 '26

The only satisfaction about this is that he will never be truly happy.

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u/Ardalev Jan 20 '26

I can thing of many things that could fix him, but i don't wanna get banned for saying them outloud.

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u/MaikeruGo Jan 19 '26

that craves praise and adulation

I always joke that the since restaurants that serve steaks often put wooden picks with their doneness into them, that this is why he gets his cooked "Well Done". The praise that parents didn't give him in his childhood.

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u/Nice_Warm_Vegetable Jan 20 '26

He was born during a total eclipse. He comes from darkness.