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‘We base our decision only on…’: Norwegian committee on why Trump didn’t get Nobel Peace Prize

October 10, 2025

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, while addressing a question on Trump’s claim to the peace prize, said the decision is based on the work and will of Alfred Nobel.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuela’s opposition leader and democracy activist Maria Corina Machado, in a move that is likely to send ripples to the White House.

President Donald Trump, who claimed to have resolved at least seven international conflicts, had long coveted the prestigious prize and at times openly expressed his desire to get the prestigious award. His Democratic predecessor Barack Obama won the peace prize in 2009.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, while addressing a question on Trump’s claim to the peace prize, said that the decision on awarding the coveted prize is based on the work and will of Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize.

“This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates and that room is filled with both courage and integrity. So, we base only our decision on the work and will of Alfred Nobel,” Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the committee, told a press briefing.