The White House has responded after the news broke out that President Donald Trump has lost out on winning this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Despite claiming that he ‘deserved it’ for his involvement in the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, Trump hasn’t won the prize.
Instead, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who disappeared and went into hiding in August 2024 following elections in the preceding month.
Machado won the award for her contributions to promoting democracy in the country, which has been described as a dictatorship by some under its current leader Nicolás Maduro.
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Now, the White has broken its silence, and it seems like the Trump administration might not be too pleased with the outcome.
The White House Director of Communications, Steven Cheung, said: “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. The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.”
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Ahead of the prize recipient being announced, Trump was campaigning for it to be awarded to him, saying ‘everyone says I should get it’ and making a highly contested claim that he had ‘ended seven wars’.
The committee noted that campaigns and ‘media tension’ around the Nobel Peace Prize were nothing new, and insisted they based their decision ‘only on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel’ - the Swedish chemist after whom the award is named.
Speaking to the press, Jørgen Watne Frydnes was questioned about pressure from the US president and some in the international community to give the award to the 79-year-old, and whether the pressure affected their decision at all.
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He replied, noting that ‘in the long history’ of awarding the prize, the committee has experienced all types of ‘media tension’, even receiving thousands of letters each year from those who explain ‘what for them leads to peace’.
While Trump had previously claimed that he would have a Nobel Peace Prize ‘in 10 seconds’ if he was Barack Obama, there could be a more pressing reason why the president was snubbed this year.
A main factor could be the fact that nominations for the awards closed in January, just days after Trump began his second term as President of the United States.
In history, four US presidents, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.