Trump criticizes Norway after Nobel Peace Prize snub

U.S. President Donald Trump used a campaign rally in Port Huron, Michigan, to criticize Norway, saying the country had treated him unfairly after the Nobel Peace Committee passed over him for the award. He claimed the Nobel committee’s decisions were a personal slight and expressed a lack of interest in immigration from Norway.

Trump also referenced the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, noting that she had visited the White House and presented him with her medal. > "And the person who got it, Maria, was very nice. She said, ‘I can’t believe I got it. This should go to President Trump,’ and she gave me her Nobel Peace Prize, that was so nice. It was very nice. I won’t forget that. It was very nice."

Norway’s foreign minister, Espen Barth Eide, responded by emphasizing the Nobel committee’s independence, stating that the president was reminded that the committee operates without political influence.

The remarks came amid broader comments from Trump on immigration, where he expressed a preference for migrants from Denmark over those from Somalia, Sweden or Norway.