Donald Trump on September 4, 2020 at the White House.

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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday enthusiastically welcomed the decision of an elected official from the Norwegian populist right to nominate him for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.

Coming from the Progress Party (FrP, a populist anti-immigration right), Christian Tybring-Gjedde explained that the US president deserved the award for his role in the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

With another elected official, he had already proposed Donald Trump for the Nobel in 2018 for the rapprochement - today in limbo - with North Korea.

Being nominated for the Nobel does not have an endorsement value from the Norwegian Nobel Institute.

The latter is required to accept all nominations as long as they have been sent before January 31 by a person authorized to do so, as is the case with Christian Tybring-Gjedde as a deputy.

Thank you!

https://t.co/S2kgsPh77l

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 9, 2020

"They gave it to Obama"

Jared Kushner, son-in-law and adviser to Donald Trump, welcomed this appointment at a press conference.

Just like the tenant of the White House who tweeted "Thank you" while relaying an article announcing this initiative.

In the process, he retweeted a series of messages on the same theme.

"President Trump was very, very honored to be nominated this morning for the Nobel Peace Prize," said Jared Kushner.

I think that's a really great thing.

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On several occasions, Donald Trump has already mentioned the prestigious award, believing to be badly treated compared to his predecessor Barack Obama.

“I could get the Nobel Peace Prize for a lot of things if they awarded it honestly, but that's not the case,” he said in September 2019 on the sidelines of the General Assembly of the 'UN, New York.

"They gave it to Obama immediately after he came to power and he had no idea why he received it," he said.

By receiving the Nobel Prize on December 10, 2009, the Democratic President recognized at the outset “the considerable controversy” aroused by this surprising award on the eve of his first term.

Four crowned American presidents

Asked by AFP on the reasons for his initiative, Christian Tybring-Gjedde considered that the Republican billionaire deserved it, "especially if we compare with other laureates of the past".

"Whether it is the Camp David agreement of 1978 or that of Oslo in 1993: the price of peace has been given to the protagonists and this agreement is at least as revolutionary for the Middle East", he said. valued.

Asked about the chances of the tenant of the White House to be crowned with laurels in a Norway generally little won on to its cause, Christian Tybring-Gjedde stressed that it was incidental.

“For Nobel laureates, whether in mathematics [there is no Nobel in this discipline], literature or chemistry, nobody questions their personality, he argued.

It is not the personality that makes the award, but what the person has actually done to bring peace to the world.

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In the past, some of the five awarding committee members have spoken negatively about Donald Trump.

Beyond Barack Obama, three other US presidents have already received the coveted award: Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, Woodrow Wilson in 1919 and Jimmy Carter in 2002, when he was no longer in office.

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