Donald Trump thanks Norwegian politician who nominated him for Nobel Peace Prize

The Norwegian MP cited Trump’s role in brokering an agreement to normalise relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates

Trump has previously complained that he has not been considered more seriously for the peace prize

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US President Donald Trump sent out a flurry of tweets and retweets celebrating the nomination. Photo: EPA

Published: 10:34pm, 9 Sep 2020Updated: 7:55am, 10 Sep 2020

US President Donald Trump revelled on Wednesday in his nomination by a right-wing Norwegian politician for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.

“Thank you!” he said in one of a flurry of tweets and retweets celebrating the nomination, which cited Trump’s role in brokering an agreement to normalise relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

Norwegian member of parliament Christian Tybring-Gjedde said he has nominated the Republican due to the “unique and historic agreement between Israel and the UAE – an agreement that, we hope, can be extended to other Arab countries so that we can have lasting peace in the Middle East”.

A member of the right-wing, anti-immigration Progress Party, Tybring-Gjedde is the deputy chair of the Norwegian parliament’s committee on foreign and defence affairs.

He unsuccessfully proposed Trump, along with another lawmaker, for the Nobel in 2018, citing his rapprochement with North Korea.

That spectacular attempt at breaking the US stand-off with the isolated, nuclear-armed dictatorship has since lost momentum.