US President Donald Trump told Norway’s prime minister he no longer needed to think “purely of peace” after failing to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in a message published Monday.
“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace,” Trump said in a message to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.
The authenticity of the message was confirmed to AFP by a source close to the matter, and by Store to Norwegian newspaper VG.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado became the latest of the prestigious awards’ winners to join that list on Thursday, gifting her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump while meeting with him at the White House in the wake of U.S. forces capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Machado told Fox News that she gave the medal to Trump, who has long coveted the Peace prize and openly campaigned for it before it was awarded to the Venezuelan opposition leader, because “he deserves it.”
“I decided to present the Nobel Peace Prize medal on behalf of the people of Venezuela,” she said.
The move has drawn criticism from some politicians in Norway, where the prize is awarded. The Nobel committee itself clarified that “the Nobel Prize and the laureate are inseparable.”
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