American president angles for top diplomatic award while world watches his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
U.S. President Donald Trump called Norway\u2019s Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg out of the blue last month to discuss trade tariffs \u2014 as well as his bid to win the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The call was first reported by Norwegian newspaper Dagens N\u00e6ringsliv 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 N\u00e6ringsliv noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is true that President Trump called me a few days before his conversation with Prime Minister St\u00f8re. Several of the president\u2019s staff members also participated in the conversation, including Treasury Secretary Bessent and Trade Representative Greer,\u201d Stoltenberg, the former NATO secretary-general, told POLITICO in a comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe discussed tariffs, economic cooperation, and it served as preparation for his call with Prime Minister St\u00f8re. I will not go into further detail about the content of the conversation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump\u2019s Friday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska could prove to be the ultimate test for his Nobel Peace Prize case, as any breakthrough or misstep on the Ukraine conflict would likely affect his peacemaking credentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While oscillating on who\u2019s to blame for the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Trump has appeared to harden his rhetorical position on Putin in recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every year, the Norwegian Nobel Committee selects laureates from hundreds of nominees. Its five members are appointed by Norway\u2019s parliament in line with the instructions of 19th-century Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel. Winners are announced each October in Oslo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several countries, including Israel, Pakistan and Cambodia, have already nominated Trump for brokering peace agreements or ceasefires since he returned to office in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump has claimed credit for cooling tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan after skirmishes earlier this year, and last week hosted the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Washington to address ending decades of hostilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If he were to win, the real estate tycoon-turned-politician would become the fifth United States president to receive the prize, following Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Trump\u2019s longtime rival Barack Obama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize,\u201d Trump complained during a February meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office. \u201cIt\u2019s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a press briefing on July 31, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt argued that it\u2019s \u201cwell past time\u201d that Trump wins the top gong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The White House did not immediately respond to POLITICO\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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