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According to Reuters, (Finance Minister) Stoltenberg was walking down a street in Oslo when the unexpected call came through. Out of the blue, Trump launched into a discussion about trade and tariffs before shifting to a more personal request. He told the finance minister that he wanted the Nobel Peace Prize, an accolade awarded by Norway that has previously gone to four U.S. presidents. Trump has had a long-standing fascination with the award and believes that he has earned it through his foreign policy achievements.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-dangles-tariff-threat-while-begging-norway-for-nobel-peace-prize/ar-AA1KBz5I
I just read about how stopping USAID is killing children in Africa.
The abrupt freeze of billions in U.S. foreign aid has fractured decades of global health and development work. Programs for HIV, malaria, and maternal health have stalled, tens of thousands of skilled professionals lost jobs, and U.S. nonprofits cut deeply into their staff.
The impact reaches beyond vulnerable communities to U.S. influence, security, and American livelihoods.
https://www.newsweek.com/fallout-dismantling-usaid-10832387
I hope that someone will alert the Nobel committee that such actions are not worthy of any prize

VMA131Marine
(5,095 posts)Zip, Nada, Nil.
His only way to get a prize would be to start his own and make it so that he wins
just like with the golf tournaments he hosts.
Mr. Evil
(3,395 posts)Greta Thunberg was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. That would really bust his gut.
johnnyplankton
(571 posts)

Mr. Evil
(3,395 posts)rankle his cankles!
popsdenver
(594 posts)A friend of mine was just awarded a large gold medallion Nobel Peace Award for his work with the Hague and U.N........
Surely the Nobel Peace folks can send her one of those at least.............
homegirl
(1,867 posts)Scandinavia I can definitively comment that Donald Trump will NEVER receive a Nobel Peace, or any Prize.
SeattleVet
(5,755 posts)"The No-Balls Piss Prize"
question everything
(51,091 posts)UpInArms
(53,494 posts)Be a shame if something happened to your country
Irish_Dem
(75,786 posts)BidenRocks
(2,318 posts)That makes him a terrorist.
Given his penchant for destruction, right there with al Queda and Hamas with a side of McVeigh and Kaczinski thrown in.
DHS was created to stop terrorists.
Speak up Bush! This was YOUR onerous idea!
KS Toronado
(21,460 posts)until the tide turns against him. When the majority of elected Rs start saying NO to
dumpie, only then will Bush speak up. Bush is scared of how dumpie would retaliate
against him.
Shipwack
(2,871 posts)Not to be mean or anything (as justified as it may be), but I have a suspicion that he checked out a while ago.
Irish_Dem
(75,786 posts)I think he has had alcohol related dementia now for some time.
Celerity
(52,311 posts)
kimbutgar
(26,185 posts)The only award he should get is condemnation by The Hague for crimes against against humanity,
malaise
(289,805 posts)Let him show up for the award and arrest him for war crimes against those dead Venezuelan fishermen.
KS Toronado
(21,460 posts)Save us Norway since we can't seem to do it ourselves!
malaise
(289,805 posts)
Joinfortmill
(19,073 posts)BadgerMom
(3,335 posts)Hotler
(13,462 posts)tblue37
(67,270 posts)lostincalifornia
(4,667 posts)threatening.
-misanthroptimist
(1,457 posts)I still can't believe he's real. If he were a fictional character, I'd think the author went way over the line in creating an insecure villain.
Trump wants to be admired...but doesn't want to do the hard work and self-discipline necessary to be admired. But he'll be happy with the mere trappings of accomplishment.
niyad
(127,717 posts)in fiction, no publisher would have even considered it, except perhaps in the science fantasy genre set on another world. Fiction has to bear some relation to plausible reality.
Buns_of_Fire
(18,794 posts)Saturday, October 11: Lord Pissypants announces new 5000% tariffs against all Scandinavian countries.
popsdenver
(594 posts)Lord "Poopy Pants" which anyone forced to be near him, can attest to.......
usonian
(21,164 posts)
Created by a paisano, so no ethnic slur.
And I like anchovy pizza,
So I can have it all to myself!
Buon Giorno!
BamaRefugee
(3,858 posts)And I'm Scottish.
People don't know what they're missing out on. Those who've been to Italy and think the food is so good don't realize how many things have anchovies in ithem, which gives it that Italian umami.
BidenRocks
(2,318 posts)Along with avocados and raw tomatoes.
3Hotdogs
(14,640 posts)GiqueCee
(2,873 posts)I'll even eat 'em right out of the tin.
tavernier
(13,983 posts)that it contains anchovies.
question everything
(51,091 posts)
ananda
(33,489 posts)The attacks on boats from Venezuela alone,
notwithstanding the attacks on our own people,
make Trump deserving of nothing but contempt
and impeachment.
popsdenver
(594 posts)Renames the Dept. of Defense............the Dept. of War...............
I can hardly wait until Trump encounters the situation that Putin currently faces.........Putin cannot go to a number of countries without being arrested and sent to the Hague for crimes against humanity, as well as criminal acts covered under the Geneva Convention...........
One violation in particular was when Putin supplied outlawed chemical weapons, for his bestest buddy Asad in Syria, to drop on Syria towns.................killing every baby, child, women and men in entire towns........giving them all a horrific death from the chemicals.......(The Hague and U.N. investigated this, and has un-disputable evidence.....)
Vinca
(52,780 posts)CTyankee
(67,165 posts)PSPS
(15,000 posts)Yonnie3
(18,951 posts)If it is huge and gold he'll not notice.
genxlib
(6,003 posts)Is that the Peace Prize is rarely about stopping a war.
The vast majority of the time, it is about humanitarian efforts and human rights.
For every Kissenger there are about five Mother Theresa types.
He will never understand the distinction which is why he is fundamentally ineligible.
niyad
(127,717 posts)scum like charles keating, so far as I recall.
cojoel
(1,009 posts)The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which is responsible for selecting the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is appointed by the Storting (the Norwegian Parliament), but operates independently from the Government. Committee members are selected for six year terms.
Trump is barking up the wrong tree (which is often the case with Trump).
question everything
(51,091 posts)
BattleRow
(1,857 posts)edbermac
(16,348 posts)Literally.
lastlib
(26,803 posts)By cutting off aid to UN refugee programs, and supporting the blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza, thousands of innocent war victims have surely died. Same with USAID to African nations in need.
Justice matters.
(8,945 posts)For free.
Enough is never enough.
If he doesn't get it, he'll order another fishing boat murderous blast.
Trust_Reality
(2,249 posts)IbogaProject
(5,109 posts)To quote a book he and his followers like to wave around while breaching all of its ethical suggestions.
Fil1957
(244 posts)obsessed about it. According to him, no prize equals no afterlife.
Trust_Reality
(2,249 posts)His brain functions in a most astonishing manner.
swong19104
(532 posts)then stick his ass in the same prison as Andrrs Brevik. Brevik killed about 110 people. Dumpf has killed well over several million.
Ocelot II
(127,564 posts)Leavenworth would be a better fit. Or maybe CECOT in El Salvador.
Turbineguy
(39,463 posts)RWNJ's blowing up peoples' houses.
Nasruddin
(1,123 posts)He has to match Obama, but even better if he exceeds him.
So create a new prize, something like Nobel World Citizen, tell him it's beyond all the other prizes, and award it to him.
As long as he remains in power.
Just keep awarding it year after year until he's no longer relevant, then discontinue.
Nasruddin
(1,123 posts)Award the Nobel Peace Prize to Stephen Miller.
The fallout from this will definitely increase world peace.
FakeNoose
(38,877 posts)

COL Mustard
(7,628 posts)TSF would never accept that.
Trust_Reality
(2,249 posts)I am trying to imagine if there are any words in any language sufficient to characterize that behavior.
GoodRaisin
(10,556 posts)PCIntern
(27,665 posts)Joint prize awarded to Clinton, Obama, and Biden. Special Honorary mention to Kamala Harris.
Trueblue1968
(18,830 posts)Ocelot II
(127,564 posts)While not mentioning the president by name, Asle Toje, deputy leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said that influence campaigns are more likely to have a negative effect than a positive one when the panel decides who gets the annual award.
Some candidates push for it really hard and we do not like it, Toje told Reuters. We are used to work in a locked room without being attempted to be influenced. It is hard enough as it is to reach an agreement among ourselves, without having more people trying to influence us.
3catwoman3
(27,852 posts)...is the (Ig)Noble Piece Of Shit prize.
He is such an embarrassment to the US, and to the human race in general.
calimary
(87,999 posts)Hes trying to force being chosen for what may be the most prestigious award imaginable.
How pathetic is that? Calling one of the key people to place an order.
Hes the LAST person on this planet to be even ON the same planet with the rest of humanity.
applegrove
(128,575 posts)jeffreyi
(2,451 posts)Ocelot II
(127,564 posts)durablend
(8,547 posts)Two countries on fire (well...three....) will put a bigger smile on his face
eppur_se_muova
(40,239 posts)love_katz
(3,176 posts)DUzy!
jeffreyi
(2,451 posts)Guess that's why I never got one. And t***p won't, either.
Mr.WeRP
(986 posts)Make one drawn on paper in Sharpie marker along with a Trump Coin made out of lead with 1 million Trump dollars written on it.
Then when he is given this award and asked to come up to receive it, everyone talks baby talk to him in congratulations
Look evweewon! Teump finaweee got his wewaaard. Yaaaay!
And then immediately turn off his mic as everyone laughs at him.
North Coast Lawyer
(198 posts)Trump is nothing but a deluded senile geriatric gangster brazenly trying to shake down those he perceives as opponents. With each passing day the United States becomes more of a laughing stock.
Mblaze
(802 posts)GopherGal
(2,632 posts)but already holds one from 2020:
Medical Education: Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, Narendra Modi of India, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Donald Trump of the United States, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan, for using the COVID-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can. The announcement noted that this is the second time Lukashenko won the prize (the first time was in 2013).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners]
The 2025 Peace Prize Winner (awarded 18 Sep 2025):
Peace: Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for "showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person's ability to speak in a foreign language".
But also we can't rule out that he may have been involved in this 2025 Ig-Nobel-winning study:
Psychology: Marcin Zajenkowski and Gilles Gignac, for "investigating what happens when you tell narcissists or anyone else that they are intelligent"
Ms. Toad
(37,798 posts)This came out about a month ago when he was trying to extort a prize in exchange for favorable tariffs.
GiqueCee
(2,873 posts)... of a booby prize in recognition of his insufferable narcissism, or maybe his staggering stupidity. Then, of course, there's his world record for mendacity... oh, the list goes on, and on, and on, and... I need a drink.
Wicked Blue
(8,273 posts)Now THAT'S a nice, peaceful solution.
OMGWTF
(4,916 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(170,781 posts)bluestateboomer
(535 posts)Then he'd deserve the prize.
GreenWave
(11,747 posts)patphil
(8,330 posts)That's not going to get a Nobel Prize.
Zackzzzz
(154 posts)and now he has a drawer full.
That worked.
Maybe he will be 'gifted' a Nobel Prize.
Scalded Nun
(1,526 posts)LonePirate
(14,243 posts)Perhaps a posthumous award to Jimmy Carter for his work to eliminate the guinea worm.
question everything
(51,091 posts)Prize motivation: for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2002/carter/facts/
Bluetus
(1,634 posts)Beowulf42
(295 posts)He does not deserve a Nobel Prize. Being a man of peace is not in his repertoire.
Frasier Balzov
(4,605 posts)eppur_se_muova
(40,239 posts)"Putin blockerar Trumps nominering till världens högsta utmärkelse" .... oooops, now I've lost that highly secure email. Sometimes that happens.
I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that AS LONG AS PUTIN IS ALIVE, Turnip will never win the Nobel Prize in any catagory. If you don't believe me, check with any source in US government you know.
I've done multiple online searches on this, and they all seem to be *suspiciously* blocked -- even Snopes is in on it !
electric_blue68
(24,137 posts): orangejumpsuit: 👍
Clouds Passing
(6,004 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,647 posts)He would win it. If it was made of gold, he would accept it.
B.See
(6,888 posts)just about everyone else So why stop at Norway?
Aussie105
(7,279 posts)The Darwin award.
"The Darwin Awards honor individuals who contribute to human evolution by removing themselves from the gene pool through their own foolish actions, often resulting in death or sterilization."
We can stretch the reasons why, can't we?
Posthumous, of course!
AdamGG
(1,800 posts)Hope he stops by to pick it up.
Klarkashton
(4,210 posts)You lousy felon bastard. Try ALL your shit.
This govt is dead. You are nothing.