White House blasts Nobel Peace Prize committee over Trump snub
The White House has blasted the Nobel Peace Prize Committee for snubbing Donald Trump.
Steven Cheung, the White House Communications Director, said the committee “proved they place politics over peace” by overlooking the US President for the honour.
“He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will,” Cheung wrote on social media.
Asked about Trump’s desperate campaigning for the gong, Juergen Warne Frydnes of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said: “In the long history of the Nobel Peace Prize I think this committee has seen any type of campaign, media attention and we receive thousands of letters every year, from people wanting to say what to them means peace.
“This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates and that room is filled with courage and integrity. We base our decision only on the work and the will of Alfred Nobel.”
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