By SCM Staff Writer I Friday, October 10, 2025
WASHINGTON – The White House has hit out at the Nobel Committee in an extraordinary attack, claiming the prestigious Peace Prize was awarded to the wrong winner and that the decision put ‘politics over peace’.
The fiery response came after President Donald J. Trump, who has been nominated for the award multiple times, was again passed over by the Oslo-based committee.
The Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado is the 2025 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
In a stunning statement, the White House argued that the President was the rightful recipient, declaring that Mr. Trump has “the heart of a humanitarian.”
The comments mark a highly unusual intervention by a sitting US administration into the fiercely guarded process of the Nobel Prize.
The controversy flared up after the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Venezuelan.
The President’s supporters have long argued that his foreign policy achievements—including brokering the landmark Abraham Accords between Israel and several Arab nations—should have secured him the gold.
The White House statement, which did not directly name the Nobel Peace Prize recipient, made it crystal clear where their grievance lay.
”The committee’s decision places politics over peace,” a spokesperson said, suggesting the President’s numerous peace-making efforts have been deliberately ignored for partisan reasons.
Mr. Trump has frequently hinted at his frustration over not receiving the prize, following in the footsteps of previous US Presidents like Barack Obama, who won the award in 2009.
While the nomination list is kept secret for 50 years, high-profile figures, including various world leaders and Republican allies, had openly confirmed they put forward the President’s name for his work on Middle East diplomacy.
Despite this choice, the White House remains defiant, insisting its man has the right character for the honour.
”President Trump has the heart of a humanitarian,” the spokesperson insisted.
“His diplomatic breakthroughs have saved countless lives and brought stability to volatile regions. To ignore these facts is to undermine the very concept of the prize.”
The official list of Nobel nominations for this year’s prize included 338 candidates.
