Nobel Chair Defends Decision as He's Grilled About Trump's Campaign for Peace Prize

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MEDIAite

Oct 10th, 2025, 5:53 am


The chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, pushed back against suggestions that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize decision was made to spite President Donald Trump’s public campaign for the award. Frydnes was asked directly just moments after he announced this year’s prize would go to Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado, whether Trump’s repeated insistence that he “deserves” the prize had affected deliberations.

A reporter in the room asked: “During the past months, U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize and he’d like to have it. He even said it would be an insult to the United States if he doesn’t get it. What [do you], as chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, think of this? And how has this campaign-like activity by the president and his supporters, domestically and internationally, affected the deliberation and thinking in the committee?”

He replied: “In the long history of the Nobel Peace Prize, I think this committee has seen many types of campaign, media attention. We receive thousands and thousands of letters every year of people wanting to say what, for them, leads to peace. This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates and that room is filled with both courage and integrity. So we base only our decision on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel.”

The remarks came moments after Machado was awarded the 2025 Peace Prize. Frydnes called her a “brave and committed champion of peace” who “keeps the flame of democracy burning during a growing darkness.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/nobel-chair-defends-decision-as-hes-grilled-about-trumps-campaign-for-peace-prize/

[EYESORE 9001]

1. ...

[DoBW]

35. love that gif nnn *nt

[Torchlight]

2. Maybe the committee could mail him a participation trophy

and bumper sticker reading, "I'm a stable genius" to better soothe his big-boy tantrum.

[BlueMTexpat]

9. See what Borowitz

has to say: https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-explodes-with-rage-after-gavin

From the link:

" ...Though the committee did not bestow its prize on Trump, it did recognize him with a laser printed 'certificate of participation.'

'Deciding who will win the Peace Prize is an exhausting and stressful process,' the committee stated. 'Donald Trump’s entry gave us many hours of welcome laughter.' "

[Captain Zero]

3. The simple defense is ...

look at the militarized police in the streets of American cities. Is that working for peace?

Trump is not creating peace anywhere. He is a sack of shit

[kerouac2]

4. I'm sure he gets the message...

[underpants]

5. A very polite and diplomatic STFU

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. TACO is JEALOUS because President Obama was awarded one.

Barack Obama lived up to that award during his 8 years in the White House.

Former President Obama's life work after college was what awarded him that Honorable award. NOT because he was the first African-American POTUS. The quest for peace takes many shapes and the Nobel Committee took that into consideration.

That, according to members of his regime, "Donald Trump has the heart of a humanitarian." Really? Who callously cuts USAID and then allows vulnerable people to die? To be a "Humanatarian", one has to be a HUMAN. TACO is incapable of any human qualities or emotions other than for ANGER.

Let the ketchup fly. This will eat at him for a long time as the rest of the world continues to laugh at him.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. When then-candidate Obama gave a rousing speech in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate in 2008

to reiterate and reinforce the ties between the U.S. and Europe, a couple hundred thousand showed up.







That caught the world's attention!

[electric_blue68]

37. Wow, what great photos! TY!

Missed some of his campaigning. Difficult year for me.

[BumRushDaShow]

38. It was pretty remarkable

And this is while he was still running.

2008

2013

Transcript - https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/06/19/remarks-president-obama-brandenburg-gate-berlin-germany

[Lonestarblue]

7. The comment about courage and integrity leaves Trump out forever. He has no integrity at all.

[MLWR]

31. And as far as "courage" is concerned, his moniker "Cadet Bone Spurs" says it all.

[lostincalifornia]

8. F**K the media. First of all this decision was made before the Gaza ceasefire/hostage agreement, and that

is still a work in progress.

Second, it is quite embarrassing that anyone would publicly brag about how deserving they are of such a prize. It would be refreshing if the LAZY, inept media would remind people what happened on January 6, and how trump refused to accept the results of that election, and incited an insurrection.

The prize encompasses a lot of things, not the least is the whole character of the person.

[Marthe48]

17. I didn't seen any strife felon interfered with get settled

And don't forget the 6 million Americans he killed because of Covid.

[lostincalifornia]

33. Healthcare in shambles, immigration in shambles, cruel and without due process, dismantling the progress

that had been made on global warming, dismantling civil rights, workers rights, etc. etc. etc.

So many things that reflect his cruelty and lack of compassion.

You are right.

[Grins]

11. "Nobel Chair Defends Decision..."

The Nobel Chair doesn't have to defend its decisions; they stand on their own.

[MaineNative]

12. Donald is such an FTard

I am sure the panel took into consideration the invasion of blue cities by the military, and the abuse of people headed by Noem and her boy toys. The Epstein debacle is next in line to be followed by a massive implosion.

This is the turning point we've been waiting for, that and the shutdown. I feel it in my bones. The Remaglicans are in chaos.

[generalbetrayus]

13. It must REALLY bust Orange Julius Caesar's gut to see the prize go to someone I'm sure he's never even heard of.

It would probably have hurt his wittle feewings less if it had gone to someone prominent in world affairs like Vlad Putin or Kim Jong Un.

[BattleRow]

18. The orange has been squeezed juiceless.

[Clouds Passing]

23. Thread winner 🏆

[BattleRow]

25. You're too kind..thanks!

[Clouds Passing]

34. ...

[2naSalit]

24. It's a bigger burn than that...

She is a fighter for democracy, is a woman with brown skin AND from his favorite place to hate in South America, Venezuela.

I like it.

[Imalittleteapot]

14. Frydnes' key words:

“…courage and integrity.”

[Farmer-Rick]

15. A strike against a pedo dicktator

And a strike in favor of capitalism.

I very much dislike the elite capitalist María Corina Machado. She represents the money interest in Venezuela who are so upset they lost their wealth to the people. She is every inch a die hard capitalist who wants her easily manipulated, broken democracy back. It's like when they gave the economic prize to Milton Friedman.

But if pedo Trump was her only competition, I'm glad she got it.

[AverageOldGuy]

16. He was telling Trump to FO, he will NEVER see the Prize

This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates and that room is filled with both courage and integrity.

"courage and integrity." Trump loses on both counts.

[flashman13]

19. Poor Donnie didn't get his Noble prize. Nobel Committee Chair Jrgen Watne Frydnes says it all.

If I may quote, "This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates and that room is filled with both courage and integrity" when they make their decisions. I would say that leaves the Donald completely out of the running. He possesses neither quality.

[Ray Bruns]

20. I can't wait until 2026, 2027, 2028, and 2029 when he doesn't win in those years either.

[forgotmylogin]

21. Who knew we'd have a president who governs by tantrum...

and uses political capital making summary governance decisions to settle his grudges.

Very cool, very legal, very normal.

[iemanja]

22. Shame on the reporters for making this about this US.

This is the day for Venezuela's opposition, democracy movement.

[Mike Niendorff]

26. Other things Donald Trump "deserves" to win ...

* the World Series
* the Superbowl
* Dancing with the Stars (Every Season)
* The Lottery (Every One)
* The Papacy
* The Next Dalai Llama
* The Nobel Peace Prize (in Quantum Physics)
* The Nobel Peace Prize (in Literature)
* Prom King (retroactively, all proms, everywhere)

...


MDN

[republianmushroom]

27. Peace, trump is killing people in international waters.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. Nobel committee chair: We only give the award to people of courage and integrity.

Link to tweet

[MarineCombatEngineer]

30. Ouch!!

That's gonna leave a mark, especially on the walls of the WH.

So now will Been A Dick Donald deport Norway back to Norway?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. This made me smile

[sl8]

32. Fact Check: Nobel Chair Did NOT say Donald Trump Didn't Win Peace Prize Because He Lacked 'Courage And Integrity'

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/10/fact-check-nobel-chair-did-not-say-trump-didnt-win-peace-price-because-he-lacked-courage-and-integrity.html

Fact Check: Nobel Chair Did NOT say Donald Trump Didn't Win Peace Prize Because He Lacked 'Courage And Integrity'

Oct 10, 2025 by: Alan Duke

[MarineCombatEngineer]

29. He really doesn't have to defend anything,

the committee made their choice and that's that.
Been A Dick Donald isn't owed any explanation.

[JoseBalow]

36. They don't want to have to see his ridiculous ugly mug every day

"This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

39. This made me smile