{"id":288787,"date":"2025-10-09T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/288787\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:30:15","slug":"nobel-insiders-laugh-at-trumps-peace-prize-hopes-hard-to-take-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/288787\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Insiders Laugh at Trump\u2019s Peace Prize Hopes: \u2018Hard to Take Seriously\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump\u2019s demands for a Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> are being met with laughs in Europe, a new report has alleged. <\/p>\n

Trump, 79, has lobbied hard to be awarded the prize by the Norwegian Nobel<\/a> Committee, but the Financial Times<\/a> reports that \u201cfew\u201d in Oslo believe the president has a real chance of receiving the honor when its winner is announced on Friday. <\/p>\n

The prize committee<\/a>, comprising a human rights advocate, a foreign policy expert, and three former ministers, is expected not to look kindly<\/a> on Trump\u2019s ordering of American troops to patrol the streets of U.S. cities under Democratic leadership.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe five-person Norwegian Nobel Committee and its secretary. Geir Anders Rybakken \u00d8rslien\/Nobel Prize Outreach <\/p>\n

Another lateral move for Trump\u2019s hopes<\/a> of winning is his symbolic renaming of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, an unnamed European Diplomat told the Financial Times. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s winning the peace prize \u201cwould send out a strange signal,\u201d the diplomat added.<\/p>\n

The British newspaper also quoted a European diplomat as saying that Trump\u2019s outlandish claims, such as his assertion that he has ended as many as 10 global conflicts<\/a>, are not taken at face value across the pond.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been hard to take some of his proclamations seriously,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

That same diplomat added, however, that it would be a \u201cbig deal\u201d if Trump ended hostilities in Gaza before Friday\u2019s award announcement. The Financial Times noted that Trump has been pushing this week to do just that.<\/p>\n

Any success in the Middle East still may be for naught, however. The prize being awarded on Friday is technically based on actions undertaken in 2024. <\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer President Barack Obama, then 48, smiles with his diploma and gold medal during the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. President Donald Trump, 79, has raged that he has not also been awarded the prize. JEWEL SAMAD\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

There is precedent for the committee awarding the prize to a U.S. president during the first year of their term, however. Annoyingly for Trump, the prize was awarded to former President Barack Obama in 2009 for his \u201cextraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has said he believes the committee is biased against him. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf I were named Obama, I would have had the Nobel prize given to me in 10 seconds,\u201d he complained last year. Those complaints have since turned to pleas and veiled threats. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Trump reportedly mentioned the award in at least one call with the finance minister<\/a> and former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg. The pressure campaign compelled Norway\u2019s Foreign Minister, Espen Barth Eide, to emphasize that the committee is independent of the government. <\/p>\n

Nina Gr\u00e6ger, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, believes that Trump is only further hindering his chances by lobbying for the award with the help of his sycophants in Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPutting pressure on the committee, going on talking about \u2018I need the prize, I\u2019m the worthy candidate\u2019\u2014it\u2019s not a very peaceful approach,\u201d Gr\u00e6ger told the Financial Times.<\/p>\n

Others have also warned Trump that he is jeopardizing chances by so publicly\u2014and repeatedly\u2014calling for the award. <\/p>\n

Asle Toje, deputy leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee<\/a>, told Reuters<\/a> plainly that the committee does not like pressure campaigns.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome candidates push for it really hard, and we do not like it,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are used to work in a locked room without being attempted to be influenced. It is hard enough as it is to reach an agreement among ourselves, without having more people trying to influence us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump\u2019s demands for a Nobel Peace Prize are being met with laughs in Europe, a new…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":288788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[77,50,5199,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-288787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-donald-j-trump","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-nobel-peace-prize","11":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}