The White House criticized the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday after it awarded the peace prize to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and overlooked US President Donald Trump.
“The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace,” White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung said on X.
“President Trump will continue making peace deals, 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.”
Since returning to the White House for his second term in January, Trump has often asserted that he deserves the Nobel Prize for his part in resolving various crises—a claim that analysts believe is greatly overblown.
On the eve of the peace prize ceremony, Trump reiterated his assertion that his brokering of the first phase of a truce in Gaza this week marked the end of his eighth war.
However, he stated on Thursday, “Whatever they do is OK. I know this: I didn’t do it for that; I did it to save many people’s lives.”
Nobel Prize experts in Oslo claimed in the run-up to Friday’s announcement that Trump had no chance, pointing out that his “America First” policies contradict the values of the Peace Prize as outlined in Alfred Nobel’s 1895 testament that established the award.
