In this day and age, receiving a cold call at any time can be disarming, but Norway’s finance minister reportedly took a most surprising ring on the streets of Oslo earlier this month.
According to Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv, the cold caller was U.S. President Donald Trump, and the request for Norway’s Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg, was how the American leader could be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump has been publicly explicit about his desire to be awarded the prize, which some say is a driving factor behind his efforts to broker a peace deal for Ukraine and Russia, as well as his focus on Israel and Gaza.
But in June he took to Truth Social to complain: “No, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do, including Russia/Ukraine, and Israel/Iran, whatever those outcomes may be, but the people know, and that’s all that matters to me!”
This week, it will be Trump’s impact on the economy that will be in focus, as the group of Nobel Laureates that he seemingly hopes to join will meet for their annual event in Lindau, Germany.
