Donald Trump has Nobel Peace Prize meltdown as he calls Norway a sh*thouse country

Trump still isn’t over losing out on the Nobel Prize

The US president has once again complained about being overlooked for the award, turning his disappointment into a foul-mouthed attack on the country and a declaration that he does not want Norwegian immigrants in the United States.

Trump has made little secret of his belief that he deserves recognition for his diplomatic efforts, repeatedly claiming to have ended eight wars since returning to the White House. 

But the Nobel committee has had other plans, awarding the 2025 prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado and the 2026 honour to South African jurist Navi Pillay for her work on peace and international law.

'What about me?'

The subject came up again on Sunday when Trump addressed a rally in Port Huron, Michigan. 

He told the crowd that he had expected to receive the prize, recalling a conversation with First Lady Melania Trump in the week before the announcement.

“I told the First Lady a week before, I said, ‘It’ll be a great honour to get the Nobel Peace Prize,’” he said, before repeating his claim that he had brought eight conflicts to an end.

Trump then questioned the decision to honour Pillay, describing the human rights lawyer as “a woman that nobody ever heard of”. 

He also appeared baffled that the committee had not found room to recognise him, asking: “What about me? Do they do two of them?”

“Norway has become a s**t house country, actually,” he continued. The phrase is one he has previously used when referring to Haiti, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

No prize, no welcome

He also brought immigration into his argument, blaming it for recent events in France and suggesting that some nationalities would be more welcome in the US than others.  Norway, it seems, has fallen out of favour.

“I much prefer Denmark. Denmark, we’ll take them. Sweden, Norway … I don’t think so because I didn’t get the Nobel Prize even though I ended it. So I don’t want anybody from Norway. I don’t want anything to do with Norway,” Trump said.

For now, however, his remarks have not been accompanied by any announcement of a new immigration policy targeting Norwegian nationals.

Norway’s foreign minister, Espen Barth Eide, responded by reiterating that the country’s government does not control the Nobel Peace Prize. 

Speaking to Norwegian broadcaster NRK on Monday, he made clear that the committee’s independence had not changed.

“He knows very well that the Nobel committee is independent. We have reminded him of that, in case anyone is wondering, and that is still the case,” Eide said.