{"id":68827,"date":"2025-08-14T23:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68827\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T23:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:34:07","slug":"trump-reportedly-called-norwegian-minister-out-of-the-blue-to-ask-about-nobel-prize-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/68827\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump reportedly called Norwegian minister \u2018out of the blue\u2019 to ask about Nobel prize | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Donald Trump cold-called Norway\u2019s finance minister last month to ask about a nomination for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nobelpeaceprize\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nobel peace prize<\/a>, Norwegian press reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Norwegian outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dn.no\/politikk\/fredsprisen\/nobelprisen\/jens-stoltenberg\/kilder-til-dn-trump-tok-opp-nobelpris-i-tolltelefon-med-stoltenberg\/2-1-1857308\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dagens N\u00e6ringsliv<\/a>, citing unnamed sources, reported: \u201cOut of the blue, while finance minister Jens Stoltenberg was walking down the street in Oslo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> called \u2026 He wanted the Nobel prize \u2013 and to discuss tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The outlet added that it was not the first time that Trump had raised the question of a Nobel peace prize nomination to Stoltenberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/trump-told-norwegian-minister-he-wants-nobel-prize-newspaper-says-2025-08-14\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement <\/a>to Reuters, Stoltenberg, the former Nato secretary-general, said the call focused on tariffs and economic cooperation ahead of Trump\u2019s call with Jonas St\u00f8re, the Norwegian prime minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI will not go into further detail about the content of the conversation,\u201d Stoltenberg said, adding that several White House officials including the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and US trade representative, Jamieson Greer, were on the call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Each year, the five-member Norwegian Nobel committee reviews hundreds of candidates before choosing laureates. The committee members are appointed by Norway\u2019s parliament according to the will of Alfred Nobel, a 19-century Swedish industrialist. Laureates are announced in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Trump has previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/all-the-times-trump-complained-about-not-getting-a-nobel-peace-prize?srsltid=AfmBOopsv6Rg4POeaBJjiHA7gSc2JzR4zKVLWA8dsPlNHHEqNxOw_Pf6\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">complained multiple times<\/a> about not receiving the Nobel peace prize, an award which four of his predecessors, including Barack Obama,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/jica\/learn\/historyculture\/nobel-peace-prize-presidents.htm\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> have received.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In his most recent tirade, Trump took to Truth Social in June, saying: \u201cNo, I won\u2019t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do, including Russia\/Ukraine, and Israel\/Iran, whatever those outcomes may be, but the people know, and that\u2019s all that matters to me!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump cold-called Norway\u2019s finance minister last month to ask about a nomination for the Nobel peace prize,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-68827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}