US President Donald Trump’s obsession with winning the Nobel Peace Prize next month may have hit a hitch – the stubborn independence of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which insisted that it cannot be swayed.
Advertisement
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.
The 79-year-old billionaire has taken every opportunity to say he “deserves it”, claiming to have ended six wars, even though those in Gaza and Ukraine – which he says he wants to resolve – continue to rage.
“Of course, we do notice that there is a lot of media attention towards particular candidates,” the secretary of the committee, Kristian Berg Harpviken, told Agence France-Presse in an interview in Oslo.
“But that really has no impact on the discussions that are going on in the committee.”
Advertisement