What is the full text of President Trump’s letter to Jonas Gahr Støre and which officials confirmed its authenticity?

1. The text as published — the central paragraphs reporters reproduced

The letter as published and circulated to European diplomatic channels opens, “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I 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,” and goes on to say Trump believes he has “done more for NATO than any other person since its founding” and that “now, NATO should do something for the United States,” before linking that grievance to Greenland with the line, “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland,” and asking rhetorically why Denmark has a “right of ownership” ^{[5] [4] [6]}. Multiple outlets reproduced those passages and additional phrases from the document, and PBS reported the message was forwarded by National Security Council staff to European ambassadors in Washington ^{[1] [4]}.

2. How the letter was published and shared with diplomats

PBS’s Nick Schifrin published the letter and reported that National Security Council staff had circulated it to multiple European ambassadors in Washington, a detail echoed by other news organizations that said the note was shared beyond a private exchange between leaders ^{[1] [4] [7]}. Media coverage indicates the message reached journalists via that official forwarding and through confirmations to press outlets; outlets including The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Euronews ran the text and context, citing the published copy and diplomatic distribution ^{[2] [3] [8]}.

3. Who confirmed the message’s authenticity

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre publicly confirmed he received the message and told the Norwegian newspaper VG that it was genuine, an affirmation picked up internationally ^{[2] [9]}. News agencies also reported confirmation “by a source close to the matter” to AFP, and several major news organizations — including CBS News and the BBC’s U.S. partner — said they had confirmed the message and its contents, signaling multiple independent verifications beyond the Norwegian prime minister’s statement ^{[3] [9] [10]}.

4. Variation in reporting and open limits in the record

While many outlets reproduced identical or near-identical chunks of the letter, some presented slightly different verbatim quotations and framing; publications ranging from The New York Times and The Independent to smaller outlets printed long excerpts described as the “full” letter without an authenticated government transcript in the public domain, and PBS’s initial publication remains a key provenance point cited across coverage ^{[11] [6] [1]}. Reporting consistently notes confirmations by Støre and by unnamed close sources to AFP and CBS/BBC, but public release of an official White House transcript or a posted image of the signed letter has not been cited in the reporting assembled here, leaving a narrow gap between journalistic copies and a formal archival release ^{[2] [3] [9]}.

5. Reading the confirmations — what they mean and what they don’t

The confirmations from Støre and from sources to international agencies establish that the message reached Norway’s prime minister and was treated as authentic by multiple news organizations, and PBS’s account that NSC staff circulated it to embassies supports that it was distributed through official channels ^{[2] [3] [4]}. That said, the reporting available to this article does not show a publicly released, signed White House text stamped as an official presidential record; reporting relies on the version published by Nick Schifrin and on confirmations to press outlets rather than on a posted administration transcript ^{[1] [11]}.