U.S. President Donald Trump called Norway’s Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg out of the blue last month to discuss trade tariffs — as well as his bid to win the Nobel Peace Prize.And people in Hell want ice cream. 🍦 Which he’ll find out soon enough.
The call was first reported by Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv on Thursday and was later confirmed to POLITICO by a government official in Oslo. This was not the first time Trump had raised the prize in discussions with Stoltenberg, Dagens Næringsliv noted.
“It is true that President Trump called me a few days before his conversation with Prime Minister Støre. Several of the president’s staff members also participated in the conversation, including Treasury Secretary Bessent and Trade Representative Greer,” Stoltenberg, the former NATO secretary-general, told POLITICO in a comment.
“We discussed tariffs, economic cooperation, and it served as preparation for his call with Prime Minister Støre. I will not go into further detail about the content of the conversation,” he added.
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Every year, the Norwegian Nobel Committee selects laureates from hundreds of nominees. Its five members are appointed by Norway’s parliament in line with the instructions of 19th-century Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel. Winners are announced each October in Oslo.
I do wonder if he offered to trade tariffs for a Nobel. Signs point to: “OF COURSE HE DID!”
I wonder how Trump would reacted if they told him the best way to get a Nobel Peace Prize is to help Ukraine win the war (not that I exactly think that's possible).
ReplyDeleteIt would be a real Donald's Choice: caught between his bottomless need for trophies and his probably equally burning need to be Putin's good boy.