Here’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal.
Editor:
So much can, should, and will be said about this flabbergasting message that Pres. Trump sent to Norway’s Prime Minister: “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” (“Trump Links Greenland Threats to Missing Out on Nobel Prize,” January 19).
But one troubling implication that shouldn’t be ignored is that the President of the United States just admitted that in his quest for a personal award he was not thinking about what is good and proper for the United States of America.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Professor of Economics
and
Martha and Nelson Getchell Chair for the Study of Free Market Capitalism at the Mercatus Center
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
