”The Nobel Committee has proven that they put politics before peace”, writes the White House's communications chief Steven Cheung on X after Friday's announcement.
Few people have been as open about wanting the Nobel Peace Prize as the US President Donald Trump.
”He (Trump) has a philanthropist's heart, and there will never be anyone who can move mountains with just the power of will like he can."
Counting on Trump
María Corina Machado has since then commented on the peace prize again on X, and mentions Trump.
”We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever before, we count on President Trump, the people of the US, the people of Latin America and the world's democracies as our most important allies to achieve freedom and democracy”, she writes on X.
The question is whether the decision will lead to other political reactions from the US. Now Norway is waiting for the consequences, writes Bloomberg in an analysis. The country still has no trade agreement with the US, and there is a risk that Trump will collectively punish Norway by threatening higher tariffs.
Trump's "eight wars"
As recently as Thursday evening, the President claimed that he had done something no one else had succeeded with: to "solve eight wars in eight months”.
This is about the conflicts between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, Kosovo and Serbia, Rwanda and Congo-Kinshasa, India and Pakistan, Egypt and Ethiopia, as well as Israel and Hamas.
Critics point out that several of the conflicts have ended with a ceasefire – not lasting peace. In addition, Trump has withdrawn the US from international organizations and agreements, initiated trade wars, sent the National Guard to American cities, and threatened to take control of Greenland with military means.
The US is also the largest supplier of weapons to Israel, weapons that are generally considered to have enabled the extensive destruction in Gaza.