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   Trump Demands The Nobel Peace Prize In Exchange For Lower Tariffs On Norway   
      
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   Your punishment will be lessend the more you priase him and give him gifts.   
   Der Fuehrer is a sensitive man and must be regularly flattered else the   
   tantrums begin.   
      
   Trump cold-called Norwegian minister to ask about Nobel Peace Prize   
      
   American president angles for top diplomatic award while world watches his   
   summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.   
      
      
   August 14, 2025 5:30 pm CET   
   By Elena Giordano   
      
   U. S. President Donald Trump called Norways 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 Nringsliv 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 Nringsliv noted.   
      
   It is true that President Trump called me a few days before his   
   conversation with Prime Minister Stre. Several of the presidents staff   
   members also participated in the conversation, including Treasury Secretary   
   Bessent and Trade Representative Greer, Stoltenberg, the former NATO   
   secretary-general, told POLITICO in a comment.   
      
   We discussed tariffs, economic cooperation, and it served as preparation   
   for his call with Prime Minister Stre. I will not go into further detail   
   about the content of the conversation, he added.   
   Trumps Friday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska could   
   prove to be the ultimate test for his Nobel Peace Prize case, as any   
   breakthrough or misstep on the Ukraine conflict would likely affect his   
   peacemaking credentials.   
      
   While oscillating on whos to blame for the Russian full-scale invasion of   
   Ukraine, Trump has appeared to harden his rhetorical position on Putin in   
   recent months.   
   Every year, the Norwegian Nobel Committee selects laureates from hundreds   
   of nominees. Its five members are appointed by Norways parliament in line   
   with the instructions of 19th-century Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel.   
   Winners are announced each October in Oslo.   
      
   Several countries, including Israel, Pakistan and Cambodia, have already   
   nominated Trump for brokering peace agreements or ceasefires since he   
   returned to office in January.   
   Trump has claimed credit for cooling tensions between nuclear-armed India   
   and Pakistan after skirmishes earlier this year, and last week hosted the   
   leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Washington to address ending decades   
   of hostilities.   
   If he were to win, the real estate tycoon-turned-politician would become   
   the fifth United States president to receive the prize, following Theodore   
   Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Trumps longtime rival Barack   
   Obama.   
   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. Its 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 its well past time that Trump wins the top gong.   
      
   https: //www. politico. eu/article/donald-trump-called-norway-finance-   
   minister-ask-about-nobel-peace-prize/   
      
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