The White Home trashed the Nobel Peace Prize committee on Friday after it snubbed President Trump for the coveted award.
As Trump works to finalize a serious diplomatic victory with the Gaza ceasefire deal, communications director Steven Cheung accused the prize panel of proving “they place politics over peace” by failing to honor the president.
“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,” Cheung tweeted.
The peace prize as an alternative went to Venezuelan opposition chief María Corina Machado for what the committee known as “her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
President Donald Trump. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs)
Nobel Committee chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes stated the five-member panel seeks to close out public lobbying efforts, which many perceived as a dig on the president, although he was not talked about by identify.
“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,” he stated, referring to the Norwegian tycoon who based the prizes.
Trump has lengthy coveted the Nobel Peace Prize and has made no secret that he believes he deserves the accolade.
Since returning to the White Home, he has claimed credit score for fixing a number of conflicts world wide, though among the feuds aren’t armed conflicts and among the nations concerned low cost his position in cooling tensions with rivals.
Trump frequently complains that he’s being handed over as a result of the Nobel committee is managed by liberal “woke” pursuits.
“They’ll have to do what they do. Whatever they do is fine. I know this: I didn’t do it for that. I did it because I saved a lot of lives,” Trump stated Thursday.
Trump has obtained myriad nominations for the prize, however many of the boosts got here after the Feb. 1 deadline for the 2025 award.
He might nonetheless be honored in 2026 or some future 12 months for his position in forging the Gaza deal, which requires the discharge of Israeli hostages by Hamas in trade for Israel ending its conflict on the Palestinian enclave.
The White Home didn’t challenge any assertion about Machado’s honor.
Machado is broadly aligned with the U.S. stance of sturdy opposition to Venezuela’s authoritarian ruler President Nicolás Maduro. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has beforehand praised her as “the personification of resilience, tenacity, and patriotism.”
