The chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee addressed Donald Trump‘s desperate attempts to get the Peace Prize after awarding the honor to a democracy activist on Friday.
Jørgen Watne Frydnes defended the committee’s choice to give the 2025 prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado over Trump, who had pushed for the award for himself.
“During the past months, U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize and he’d like to have it. He even said it would be an insult to the United States if he doesn’t get it,” a reporter said to Frydnes at the announcement ceremony in Oslo.
“What [do you], as chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, think of this? And how has this campaign-like activity by the president and his supporters, domestically and internationally, affected the deliberation and thinking in the committee?”
Frydnes responded: “In the long history of the Nobel Peace Prize, I think this committee has seen many types of campaign, media attention. We receive thousands and thousands of letters every year of people wanting to say what, for them, leads to peace.”
He added: “This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates and that room is filled with both courage and integrity. So we base only our decision on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel.”
The White House reacted to the news, with a top aide saying Trump “will continue making peace deals around the world, ending wars, and saving lives.”
“He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will,’ Steven Cheung, White House Director of Communications, said in a post on X.
“The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.”
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