{"id":150835,"date":"2025-09-12T06:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150835\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:37:12","slug":"trumps-push-for-the-nobel-peace-prize-wont-sway-us-says-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150835\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s push for the Nobel Peace Prize won\u2019t sway us, says committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump\u2019s obsession with winning the Nobel Peace Prize next month may have hit a hitch &#8211; the stubborn independence of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which insisted that it cannot be swayed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has made it clear he wants the prestigious accolade, which his Democratic rival Barack Obama won to the surprise of many shortly after taking office in 2009.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 79-year-old billionaire has taken every opportunity to say he \u201cdeserves it\u201d, claiming to have ended six wars, even though those in Gaza and Ukraine &#8211; which he says he wants to resolve &#8211; continue to rage.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOf course, we do notice that there is a lot of media attention towards particular candidates,\u201d the secretary of the committee, Kristian Berg Harpviken, told Agence France-Presse in an interview in Oslo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Protesters in Tel Aviv, Israel, hold signs depicting Donald Trump as they call for an end to the Gaza war and the release of all hostages. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a878c028-2fce-429e-947f-2befd82566c6_ef8fd1f9.jpg\" title=\"Protesters in Tel Aviv, Israel, hold signs depicting Donald Trump as they call for an end to the Gaza war and the release of all hostages. Photo: Reuters\"\/>Protesters in Tel Aviv, Israel, hold signs depicting Donald Trump as they call for an end to the Gaza war and the release of all hostages. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cBut that really has no impact on the discussions that are going on in the committee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump\u2019s obsession with winning the Nobel Peace Prize next month may have hit a hitch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[93040,23,93032,6794,8833,550,5620,93034,93037,12,5618,93033,93035,803,93036,93041,5855,3,93031,6803,93038,93030,93039,1208,21,19,22,20,25,24,6508],"class_list":["post-150835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-alfred-nobel","tag-america","tag-america-first","tag-azerbaijan","tag-barack-obama","tag-beijing","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-chinese-dissident-liu-xiaobo","tag-dagens-naeringsliv","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-halvard-leira","tag-ilham-aliyev","tag-israel","tag-jens-stoltenberg","tag-kristian-berg-harpviken","tag-nato","tag-news","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-norway","tag-norwegian-institute-of-international-affairs-nupi","tag-norwegian-nobel-committee","tag-oslo","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}