Which European ambassadors received the NSC-circulated letter and what did their governments say afterward?

1. What was circulated and who said it was circulated

PBS correspondent Nick Shifrin first reported that the text of a letter from President Trump to Norway’s prime minister was obtained by multiple officials and that NSC staff forwarded the document “to multiple European ambassadors in Washington,” a formulation repeated across outlets that cited Shifrin’s scoop ^[1]. The primary sourcing in the gathered reporting attributes the circulation claim to Shifrin/PBS; the chain of copies in international outlets largely repeats that attribution rather than naming individual embassy recipients ^{[1] [3]}.

2. Which ambassadors received the letter — the limits of available reporting

No source in the provided reporting publishes a definitive list of which specific European ambassadors in Washington received the NSC-circulated note; the language used across reports is consistently general—“multiple European ambassadors” or “several European ambassadors”—without naming embassies or ambassadors ^{[1] [3] [5]}. Given those consistent gaps in the reporting, it is not possible from the supplied sources to verify or identify individual ambassadorial recipients beyond the generic description used by PBS and those who reposted that account ^[1].

3. Norway’s response and the Nobel Committee clarification

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre confirmed the existence of the letter and publicly explained that the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by an independent committee, not the Norwegian government, effectively rebutting the premise that Norway as a state had denied Trump the prize—an explicit corrective reported by KNEWS citing Storeh’s confirmation ^[2]. That response directly addresses the letter’s core grievance and was the clearest national-level rebuttal documented in the coverage provided ^[2].

4. Broader European governmental reactions recorded in reporting

Beyond Norway’s confirmation, the available reporting records that EU institutions and some member governments discussed coordinated responses to U.S. pressure over Greenland and tariff threats, including invoking trade tools like the EU’s anti-coercion instrument and even talk of substantial counter-tariff packages, as part of the diplomatic fallout described in multiple outlets ^{[3] [4] [5]}. These items reflect the political context and follow-up discussions reported in the press, though the sources frame them as reactions to the U.S. campaign over Greenland generally rather than as verbatim responses solely to the circulated letter ^{[3] [4]}.

5. How media reuse and foreign outlets shaped the narrative

A cascade of republished accounts—some in English-language outlets and several through proxy sites—repeated the PBS attribution and amplified colorful descriptions of the letter’s content; many of those reposts (Pravda mirrors, regional outlets) emphasize or embellish themes like “deranged” wording or tie the letter to threats and tariff talk ^{[6] [7] [4]}. Those secondary outlets largely rely on the PBS/Shifrin report for the circulation claim without offering new documentary evidence of specific ambassadorial recipients, showing how one primary report can seed a broad but shallow international narrative ^{[1] [6]}.

6. Bottom line and evidentiary gaps

The verifiable facts in the supplied reporting are: Nick Shifrin/PBS reported the NSC forwarded the Trump letter to “multiple European ambassadors in Washington,” Norway’s prime minister confirmed the letter and clarified the Nobel Committee’s independence, and EU-level discussions about trade and diplomatic responses were under way in the same political episode ^{[1] [2] [3]}. The reporting does not, however, identify which specific ambassadors received the NSC-circulated letter, nor does it publish formal written responses from most European governments tied explicitly to the NSC distribution; those remain unreported in the provided sources ^[1].