The US president’s fervid pursuit of the award is believed to have been a key motivator in brokering peace deals in Ukraine and Gaza
Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize
Never before has a Nobel peace prize – or indeed any prize, decoration or gold star – loomed so large over a US president and their foreign policy.
Since his return to the White House, Donald Trump’s campaign to influence the Peace Research Institute Oslo in Norway has been anything but subtle – but with just hours to go before the award is announced, it has gone into overdrive.
As news broke of a landmark peace agreement that could end the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, his allies took to the airwaves in a last-ditch effort to win him the award that he has openly coveted for years.
