White Home communications director Steven Cheung accused the Norwegian Nobel Committee of putting “politics over peace” with its determination to not identify President Donald Trump because the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
As a substitute, it awarded the prize to Venezuelan opposition activist María Corina Machado.
In a press release shared on X, previously Twitter, Cheung claimed that Trump “will proceed making peace offers, ending wars, and saving lives.”
Trump “has the guts of a humanitarian,” he argued, including that “there’ll by no means be anybody like him who can transfer mountains with the sheer pressure of his will.”
A JHB request for additional touch upon the snub obtained the Trump White Home press workplace’s canned, partisan, out-of-office response it has been utilizing to answer enquiries because the authorities shutdown started final week.
It learn: “Resulting from workers shortages ensuing from the Democrat Shutdown, the everyday 24/7 monitoring of this press inbox could expertise delays. We ask to your persistence as our workers work to area your requests in a well timed method. As you await a response, please keep in mind this might have been averted if the Democrats voted for the clear Persevering with Decision to maintain the federal government open. The press workplace additionally can not accommodate waves requests or escorts right now. Thanks to your consideration to this matter.”
Trump and his allies had lobbied exhausting for him to win the Nobel Peace Prize, citing his makes an attempt at ending the Israel-Hamas warfare and different conflicts.
However the nomination course of ended on Jan. 31 this yr, shortly after Trump returned to the White Home to start his second time period. Former President Barack Obama, nevertheless, did win the prize in 2009 following the identical timeframe.