Nobel Chair Defends Decision as He’s Grilled About Trump’s Campaign for Peace Prize

David Gilmour Oct 10th, 2025, 5:53 am

The chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes , pushed back against suggestions that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize decision was made to spite President Donald Trump’s public campaign for the award.

Frydnes was asked directly just moments after he announced this year’s prize would go to Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado , whether Trump’s repeated insistence that he “deserves” the prize had affected deliberations.

A reporter in the room asked: “During the past months, U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize and he’d like to have it. He even said it would be an insult to the Unite

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