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Trump Throws A Huge Tantrum After Not Winning The Nobel Peace Prize

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Donald Trump threw a huge tantrum after he failed to secure the Nobel Peace Prize yet again.

South African lawyer Navi Pillay won the international award on Friday for her efforts to “promote peace and international law”.

She is the former UN human rights chief chaired the UN commission which accused Israel of genocide in Gaza in September last year.

But the US president has long insisted that the accolade should be his, because he believes he has settled “eight wars” and saved “millions of lives”.

Most of those conflicts are either not actual wars or have not reached a settlement yet.

Trump also started the disastrous Iran war at the end of February when he agreed to launch joint strikes with Israel aimed at Tehran.

That conflict is still raging – putting huge pressure of the global economy by restricting oil supplies as it does so – and now at risk of engulfing the wider region.

The total number of people killed for all parties since that war began ranges from 9,045 to 18,371, according to independent defence economics researchers at MilitarySpend.

But, speaking at a rally for other Republican candidates in New York, Trump decided to dedicate a lot of his time on stage to moaning over not receiving the Nobel Peace prize.

“The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t,” he said.

“And this is an indelible stain on the country of Norway, and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision.

“The Nobel Peace Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilisation.

“We will not forget, Norway, that you didn’t give this prize.”

Trump went on to insist he was “about to settle or win” two more wars, those in Iran and in Ukraine.

The president said: “I will tell you what. Iran will be very quick one way or the other: that they give us everything or they don’t exist any longer.

“Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a nuclear weapon and blowing up the entire Middle East and ultimately far beyond the Middle East, including Europe, perhaps the US and I saved more lives than anyone in history.”

Actually, US intelligence agencies reported to the US Congress in 2025 that Iran had suspended its pursuit of nuclear weapons back in 2023.

Trump has also been accused of siding with autocrat Vladimir Putin in his desperation to close the war in Ukraine – even if it means rewarding the Russian aggressor with more land.

The president tore into the actual Nobel Peace Prize winner, Pillay, saying: “Despite all of this and all of these unbelievable accomplishments, the Nobel prize was given out today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of.”

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Norway’s PM Says He Had To Explain To Trump How The Nobel Peace Prize Works After Greenland Rant

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Norway’s prime minister says he had to explain to Donald Trump how the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded after the US president wrongly blamed the government for not being given it.

Trump has held a grudge ever since Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado received the accolade last October.

In an extraordinary text message to Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre, Trump said the snub was what pushed him to try and seize Greenland.

He said: “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.”

Norway is one of the eight European countries – including the UK – which Trump has threatened with tariffs for opposing his plan to take over Greenland, which has been part of the kingdom of Denmark for more than 300 years.

Responding to the president’s rant, Støre said: “Norway’s position on Greenland is clear. Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and Norway fully supports the Kingdom of Denmark on this matter.”

He also said he had made it clear that it is an independent committee, rather than the Norwegian government, which decides who wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

“As regards the Nobel Peace Prize, I have clearly explained, including to president Trump what is well known, the prize is awarded by an independent Nobel Committee and not the Norwegian Government,” he said.

Nevertheless, Trump has doubled down on his comments in an interview with NBC News on Monday.

He said: “Norway totally controls it despite what they say. They like to say they have nothing to do with it, but they have everything to do with it.”

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FIFA Awards Trump Peace Prize Clearly Created Just For Him

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During the 2026 World Cup draw on Friday, FIFA awarded President Donald Trump its first-ever “FIFA Peace Prize” — a gold medal and large trophy that are absolutely, totally not a consolation prize after he lost out on the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino lavished praise on Trump while handing over the award “in recognition of his exceptional and extraordinary actions to promote peace and unity around the world.”

A video that played before Trump took the stage described him as “a dynamic leader who has engaged in diplomatic efforts that created opportunities for dialog, de-escalation and stability, and who has championed the unifying power of football on the world stage.”

Earlier in the day, when reporters asked about the upcoming award, the president repeated a version of his misleading claim, saying he has settled “eight wars.”

Trump gave a short acceptance speech after he was awarded FIFA’s obsequious new award, calling it “one of the great honours” of his life before pivoting to ticket sales for the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which he claimed are moving well.

“The numbers are beyond any numbers,” the president observed.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. Trump claims Machado called him afterward and said she accepted the prize in Trump’s honour because he was the one who “really deserved it.”

Infantino and Trump are close allies. So close, even, that in July, Infantino let Trump keep the Club World Cup’s 24-karat-gold-plated trophy, forcing FIFA to give a replica to the tournament’s actual winning team.

Trump’s acceptance of a peace prize coincides with rising furor over actions being looked at as a potential war crime carried out by his administration during an attack on alleged drug smugglers in September.

The president also recently pardoned a former Honduran president who had been sentenced to decades in prison for swamping the United States with hundreds of tons of cocaine.

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‘He’s Gonna Have A Meltdown’: Internet Reacts After Donald Trump Fails To Win Nobel Peace Prize

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Donald Trump has been passed over for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, despite mounting a not-so-subtle campaign to receive it.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was given the award by the Nobel committee on Friday.

In a post on X, the Nobel organisers said: “Democracy is a precondition for lasting peace. However, we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence.

“Maria Corina Machado has spent years working for the freedom of the Venezuelan people. The Venezuelan regime’s rigid hold on power and its repression of the population are not unique in the world. We see the same trends globally: rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarisation.

“In 2024, more elections were held than ever before, but fewer and fewer are free and fair.”

Their remarks have been interpreted by some as an indirect criticism of Trump, who has been accused of authoritarianism over his legal pursuit of his political enemies.

While the world waits for Trump’s own reaction to being snubbed, the internet reacted as you’d expect.

The announcement came a day after Israel and Hamas agreed to Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, which led to increased speculation that the US president could scoop the prize.

However, that was never a real possibility as nominations to the Nobel committee closed on January 31, just days after Trump returned to the White House.

Nevertheless, it is understood he was among the nominees for his work on the Abraham Accords, which normalised relations between Israel and Arab states, during his first term in office.

Trump also thought he was in with a chance, saying on Thursday: “I don’t know what they’re going to do, really. But I know this, that nobody in history has solved eight wars in a period of nine months.”

Asked about Trump’s campaigning following the announcement, Juergen Warne Frydnes of the Nobel Committee said: “In the long history of the Nobel Peace Prize I think this committee has seen any type of campaign, media attention and we receive thousands of letters every year, from people wanting to say what to them means peace.

“This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates and that room is filled with courage and integrity. We base our decision only on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel.”

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Democracy is a precondition for lasting peace. However, we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence.

Maria Corina Machado – awarded the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize – has spent years working… pic.twitter.com/URtYv9uBfV

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There is KARMA

The orange buffoon will lose what’s left of his diseased, corrupt, fascist mind!

Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize despite intense Donald Trump campaign pic.twitter.com/tDMWIGAawJ

— Rick (@colonelhogans) October 10, 2025

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There is KARMA

The orange buffoon will lose what’s left of his diseased, corrupt, fascist mind!

Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize despite intense Donald Trump campaign pic.twitter.com/tDMWIGAawJ

— Rick (@colonelhogans) October 10, 2025