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Fred Onyango

‘Corrupt, demented circus clown’: Nobel committee slams door on Donald Trump’s dream of stealing the peace prize

It’s Jan. 10, 2026, and Donald Trump is somehow still campaigning for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee had to break a 124‑year tradition of never explaining or revoking their picks in order to directly address Trump and tell him that their prizes cannot be “transferred.”

In the short time we’ve covered this year, President Trump has already abducted a Venezuelan president and released a statement that they are ready to consider military action to take Greenland away from NATO ally Denmark. Yet, he still is of the opinion that he was “snubbed” by the Nobel Committee for a Nobel Peace Prize. So much so that he even accepted a first‑of‑its‑kind peace prize from the global soccer organization FIFA, perennially accused of corruption. Some on the internet joked that it was like the NFL giving an award for physics.

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