Misleading claims have spread misleading claims that US President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Norway if he didn’t receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Posts about X and other social media platforms like X say Trump brought peace to the Israeli-Iran war “by blowing things up,” and says the same can be done in Norway to secure prestigious awards.
Claims may be shared with Trump photos and footage of various explosions.
Nevertheless, when searching Google for traces of Trump making such comments, I get very little results.
Searching for terms such as “Trump,” “Norway,” “Bomb,” and “Nobel Prize” does not indicate official communication by the US president. There is also no reputable news coverage of such comments, except that other fact-checkers also expose their claims.
The closest thing to see is the article Released on June 26th The Borowitz report has the headline that it warns that Trump would attack Norway if he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.
However, the website About Page says it is a satirical news site created by author and comedian Andy Borowitz.
“I’ve been writing satirical news since I was 18,” Borowitz said in the section. “This represents either a commitment to the genre or an arrested development.”
Chinese media reads that they once believed in the satirical story that Borowitz published about wrapping White House phones in Tinfoil.
Will Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize?
The US President has previously been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and has repeatedly argued that he deserves it. But he never won. Trump argues that the Nobel Committee intentionally ignores him and is politically biased.
In June, he published on his Truth Social Platform. “No, no matter what I do, including Russia/Ukraine or Israel/Iran, I will not win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Recently, Pakistan has moved Trump forward to receive an award for what he said is his role in resolving the conflict with India in Islamabad.
It described him as the nominated “real piece maker”, but a day later He criticized the president Because the United States violated international law after bombing Iran’s nuclear sites.
Republican politician Buddy Carter also nominated Trump for bringing a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
Oleksandr Merezhko, Head of the Foreign IGN Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament, during which He retracted his appointment Because for Trump, he said he “lost all kinds of faith and belief” to the president’s ability to secure a ceasefire between Kiev and Moscow.
Merezhko nominated Trump for the award in November shortly after his victory in the 2024 US presidential election.
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, consisting of five members appointed by the Norwegian Parliament, in accordance with the will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel.
This is unlike other Nobel Prizes, such as prizes in literature, physics and medicine, and is carried over by different Swedish bodies depending on the prize.
Norwegian Nobel Committee nominates a nomination and consults with experts before deciding on a winner of the Peace Prize. Annual Award nominations can only occur from individuals such as a specific recognized institution or national government, professor of law, history or religion, or past recipients.
Nobel said with his will that he should go to those who have done the most to abolish the army standing as “fraternity between nations.”
The US President has previously won the Nobel Peace Prize. Theodore Roosevelt first did so in 1906 because he mediated the end of the Russo-Appanies War. Later, in 1919 Woodrow Wilson founded the League of Nations (previous to the United Nations).
In 2002, Jimmy Carter received the award for decades of peaceful conflict resolution, promotion of democracy and humanitarian work, while Barack Obama received it in 2009 “for an extraordinary effort to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.”
Thus, in theory, as long as the valid Nobel Committee and its consulted experts have determined that they insist on a contribution to peace that is sufficient to justify the award, the award-winning Trump will not win the award as long as he receives a valid nomination.
