When U.S. President Donald Trump phoned Norway's finance minister last month to discuss tariffs, he also told him he wanted the Nobel Peace Prize, a report said Thursday.
Several countries, including Israel, Pakistan and Cambodia, have nominated Trump for brokering peace agreements or cease-fires, and he has said he deserves the Norwegian-bestowed accolade that four White House predecessors received.
"Out of the blue, while Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg was walking down the street in Oslo, Donald Trump called," the Norwegian business daily Dagens Naeringsliv reported, citing unnamed sources.
"He wanted the Nobel Prize – and to discuss tariffs," the report said.
Trump has openly and repeatedly sought the world's most prestigious award, however unlikely many observers think it is that the Norwegian committee would bestow the honor on the divisive president.
