Trump cold-called Norwegian minister to ask about Nobel Peace Prize

[LetMyPeopleVote]

American president angles for top diplomatic award while world watches his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

it's weird being part of a global laughingstock nation www.politico.eu/article/dona...

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) 2025-08-14T20:57:18.395Z

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-called-norway-finance-minister-ask-about-nobel-peace-prize/

U.S. President Donald Trump called Norway’s Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg out of the blue last month to discuss trade tariffs — as well as his bid to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

The call was first reported by Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv on Thursday and was later confirmed to POLITICO by a government official in Oslo. This was not the first time Trump had raised the prize in discussions with Stoltenberg, Dagens Næringsliv noted......

“They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize,” Trump complained during a February meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office. “It’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.”

During a press briefing on July 31, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt argued that it’s “well past time” that Trump wins the top gong.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Did Trump try to bribe or threaten the guy?

[B.See]

4. As in EXTORTION? I'm absolutely certain if it

even if done via implication. You don't call someone to 'discuss tariffs' and then throw in, oh btw, how 'bout my peace prize?

He's a quid-pro-quo-ing mfkr, and that's a FACT.

"Gotta make a deal."

[Irish_Dem]

5. Exactly. There was a bribe or threat.

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We shall see how it works out for him.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

7. yep

[Captain Zero]

22. Funny though, as the Norway PM probably has nothing to do with it.

I thought it was a committee, right?

Next, Trump should try sending hookers to all of them on the committee.

[Blue Owl]

2. Jesus Christ he's pathetic

And has zero shame — what a whiny, needy LOSER!

[Hey Joe]

20. You took the words right out of my

Keyboard.
In order to feel shame one has to have a conscience.

[CTyankee]

30. But his base is so stupid they probably think what he did was just fine.

[Deuxcents]

3. He calls asking for 11+ votes, 5 districts in Texas, begs for the Peace Prize..what is wrong with him?

He feels entitled to get whatever he wants when he wants it. A shameless, little and petty person

[B.See]

6. one word: PSYCHOPATH!

[Wounded Bear]

13. Obviously needed his ass kicked more when young...nt

[3catwoman3]

8. And I'm sure he wouldn't be happy with just one.

President Obama has one, so Donvict would want at least 2.

And the committee doesn't just give these awards, they determine who has earned them.

[LastDemocratInSC]

9. It's likely that the pre-conditions for the prize

exclude those convicted of felonies and suspected of sex crimes against children.

[cloudbase]

10. He might have a shot at an Ig Nobel.

All is not lost.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. No, Ig Nobels are required to "make you think" afterwards

and thinking "what a needy piece of shit" isn't good enough.

[muriel_volestrangler]

28. I must apologize - it turns out Trump already has an Ig Nobel prize!

Donald Trump, one of the nine co-winners of the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize for Medical Education is in news headlines worldwide yet again, for his educational endeavors with the Covid-19 virus. The Washington Post reports today (December 11, 2020):

White House orders FDA chief to authorize Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine Friday or submit his resignation

In the three months since winning his Ig Nobel Prize, Trump has continued to experiment in many ways, sometimes personally with the virus and with an assortment of drugs.
...
That Ig Nobel Prize for Medical Education was awarded to Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, Narendra Modi of India, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Donald Trump of the USA, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan, for using the Covid-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can.

https://improbable.com/2020/12/11/ig-nobel-prize-winner-trump-teaches-a-new-lesson/

[cloudbase]

32. I had no idea!

Bloody shame he has to share it with others.

[MrWowWow]

11. The Nobel Art of the Steal Prize?

Quite.

[Paladin]

14. Imagine the reaction, if Joe Biden went whoring after a Nobel Prize.

"It's too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me." There is literally no bottom point, no depths to which trump is unwilling to sink. Further proof of that, each and every day.

In God's name, what is this bestial sub-human doing as President of our nation? What are we willing to do, to make things better? Republicans better get ready for a hundred years of ineffective criticism of Democrats---we've got at least a century's worth of "Oh, yeah? You think that's bad? What about that time trump did this!" responses stacking up...

[Clouds Passing]

16. It would be sweet irony if the committee gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Joe Biden this year.

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Vote for me and I'll waive all Norwegian tariffs.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. trump begging "like a dog" for them to give him a Nobel Peace Prize

Link to tweet

[tanyev]

18. People need to just hang up on that moron.

[bmichaelh]

19. Nobel Committee make the award meaningless

As one writer has noted, if Trump does win the award, it will become meaningless.

https://www.alternet.org/trump-nobel-prize-norway/

[oasis]

21. Trump's inability to persuade Netanyahu to

moderate his actions towards the Palestinian population will likely cause him to come up short.

[Captain Zero]

24. Trump's total repudiation of ANY climate concerns disqualifies him

That's why former vice-president AL GORE won it in 2007 !

[AntiFascist]

33. Exactly, and we even have leverage in that situation n/t

[Cha]

23. Yeah, the Fucked up Fed Gov Cult But

I don't consider myself to be a part of that in any way shape or form

[LetMyPeopleVote]

25. Trump's next move will be cold-calling the Pope to lobby for sainthood.

Link to tweet

[bucolic_frolic]

26. That guy's phone is gonna ring

Who could we nominate?

[Firestorm49]

27. If he deserved it in any way, he'd get nominated. But he doesn't deserve and shouldn't be nominated.

A Nobel prize for turning a democracy into an authoritarian state? Who the F are you kidding?

[3catwoman3]

29. So unseemly.

Surely the Nobel committee will be smarter than the illions of American idiots who voted for this embarrassing excuse for a human being.

[MaineBlueBear]

31. Pathetic beggar!

I really wish our president wasn't a pathetic beggar.

Imagine Joe Biden doing this.

[spanone]

34. Needy Amin.