In this time and age, receiving a acold telephone astatine immoderate clip tin beryllium disarming, but Norway's concern curate reportedly took a astir astonishing ringing connected the streets of Oslo earlier this month.
According to Norwegian paper Dagens Naeringsliv, the acold caller was U.S. President Donald Trump, and the petition for Norway's Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg, was however the American person could beryllium nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump has been publically explicit astir his tendency to beryllium awarded the prize, which immoderate accidental is simply a driving origin down his efforts to broker a bid woody for Ukraine and Russia, arsenic good arsenic his absorption connected Israel and Gaza.
But successful June helium took to Truth Social to complain: "No, I won't get a Nobel Peace Prize nary substance what I do, including Russia/Ukraine, and Israel/Iran, immoderate those outcomes whitethorn be, but the radical know, and that's each that matters to me!"
This week, it volition beryllium Trump's interaction connected the system that volition beryllium successful focus, arsenic the radical of Nobel Laureates that helium seemingly hopes to articulation volition conscionable for their yearly lawsuit successful Lindau, Germany.
It could marque for uncomfortable listening for the White House, with 1 of the astir celebrated Nobel prize-winning economists, Joseph Stiglitz telling The Guardian that "the U.S. has become, I would say, a scary spot to invest." The administration's tariff argumentation risks triggering stagflation successful a determination that is making the Federal Reserve "clearly worried," Stiglitz said earlier this year.
Nobel Laureate Roger Myerson, who is besides attending the lawsuit successful Lindau, is much acrophobic by American politics, penning successful an opinion piece for The Hill that "when ample groups of voters person go convinced that lone 1 enactment truly cares astir them, past they whitethorn consciousness nary involvement successful ideology itself… and enactment their person successful shaking disconnected its inconvenient law restraints."
Meanwhile, Nobel Laureate Simon Johnson has besides voiced his concerns astir American isolationism, telling the Nobel Prize Conversations podcast that it is "…destroying quality superior and handing a monolithic vantage to geopolitical competitors. It's a self-defeating foolish enactment by the Trump administration."
It's a pugnacious assemblage for President Trump. He does person 1 improbable protagonist successful his bid for the bid prize though. Former Democratic rival and First Lady Hillary Clinton recently said if helium could extremity the warfare betwixt Ukraine and Russia "without putting Ukraine successful a presumption wherever it indispensable concede its territory to the aggressor… I'd nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize."
CNBC volition talk unrecorded to Nobel Laureates from the gathering successful Lindau connected Wednesday and Thursday, tune successful to perceive their views.
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