{"id":1378,"date":"2026-10-26T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/trump-blasts-norway-over-nobel-peace-prize-snub\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:50:02","slug":"trump-blasts-norway-over-nobel-peace-prize-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/trump-blasts-norway-over-nobel-peace-prize-snub\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump blasts Norway over Nobel Peace Prize snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Trump-blasts-Norway-over-Nobel-Peace-Prize-snub.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Trump blasts Norway over Nobel Peace Prize snub\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Trump-blasts-Norway-over-Nobel-Peace-Prize-snub.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AFP__20260806__C46C9Q2__v1__MidRes__UsPoliticsTrump-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AFP__20260806__C46C9Q2__v1__MidRes__UsPoliticsTrump-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AFP__20260806__C46C9Q2__v1__MidRes__UsPoliticsTrump.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US President Donald Trump attacked Norway during a campaign rally, calling it a \u201cshit house country,\u201d and said that Norwegian immigrants were not welcome in the United States because its Nobel Committee had not awarded him the Peace Prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a shit house country, actually,\u201d he said during Sunday\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since returning to the White House in January 2025, Trump has made no secret of his desire to win the prestigious Nobel Peace prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judge and former UN rights chief Navi Pillay of South Africa was this year\u2019s recipient of the prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has called the committee\u2019s choice \u201ca disgraceful and embarrassing decision\u201d and argued that the award should have gone to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said Sunday he would welcome immigrants from certain countries but not Norway \u201cbecause I didn\u2019t get the Nobel Prize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo I don\u2019t want anybody from Norway,\u201d he said during the rally in the Michigan town of Port Huron ahead of crucial US midterm elections on November 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no official indication of a new US policy on Norwegian immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide responded to Trump\u2019s comments about the Nobel prize on Monday, maintaining that the committee is independent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe knows very well that the Nobel Committee is independent. We have reminded him of that, in case anyone is wondering \u2013 and that is still the case,\u201d he told national broadcaster NRK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump came under fire in 2018, during his first term, after using similar vulgar expressions to refer to Haiti and certain African countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/10\/trump-blasts-norway-over-nobel-peace-prize-snub\/\">Trump blasts Norway over Nobel Peace Prize snub<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump attacked Norway during a campaign rally, calling it a \u201cshit house country,\u201d and said that Norwegian immigrants were not welcome in the United States because its&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}