Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Jorgen Watne Frydnes holds his smartphone with a photo of Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado, the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

The head of the Nobel Committee has hit back after the White House condemned its decision not to award this year’s peace prize to Donald Trump.

Jorgen Watne Frydnes was forced to respond after the president’s top spin doctor said they had “placed politics over peace”.

Trump has been openly campaigning to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming to have stopped as many as eight wars since returning to the Oval Office in January.

However, Watne Frydnes announced on Friday morning that the committee had awarded this year’s peace prize to Venezuelan democracy campaigner María Corina Machado.

In a post on X, they said Machado “has spent years working for the freedom of the Venezuelan people”.

“The Venezuelan regime’s rigid hold on power and its repression of the population are not unique in the world,” the committee said. “We see the same trends globally: rule of law abused by those........

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