The White House has criticized the Norwegian Nobel Committee for awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado instead of U.S. President Donald Trump.
“The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung wrote on X on Friday.
“President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives. He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will,” Cheung added.
Trump, who began his second term in January, has repeatedly claimed credit for ending multiple global conflicts — assertions that analysts widely dispute. On Thursday, a day before the announcement, he reiterated his belief that he deserved the prize, citing his role in brokering the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire earlier this week, which he described as the eighth war he had ended.
“Whatever they do is fine,” Trump said. “I didn’t do it for that. I did it because I’ve saved a lot of lives.”
Nobel observers in Oslo had long dismissed Trump’s chances, noting that his “America First” foreign policy runs contrary to the ideals of the Peace Prize as outlined in Alfred Nobel’s 1895 will.
