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Ally Throws Trump’s Foul-Mouthed Insult Back in His Face

Donald Trump threw a swearing, campaign-trail temper tantrum because he didn’t get the Peace Prize.

Norway’s foreign minister has issued a perfect response after President Donald Trump threw a foul-mouthed tantrum at the European country.

The 80-year-old, apparently still annoyed that the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to South African jurist and human rights champion Navi Pillay instead of himself earlier this month, branded Norway a “s--thouse country” at a campaign rally on Sunday.

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Now, Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide has delivered a swift reality check, suggesting Trump is just worked up because of his party’s stuttering election campaign.

Eide noted that the president “is currently in the midst of an election campaign that perhaps isn’t going very well for his party, and that leads him to say a lot of things.”

Speaking in a radio interview with national broadcaster NRK, Eide reminded Trump that “he knows very well that the Nobel Committee is independent.”

The foreign minister added, “We have reminded him of that, in case anyone is wondering, and that is still the case.”

The backlash comes after Trump flew into a rage during a political rally in Port Huron, Michigan, complaining that the Oslo-based panel snubbed him despite his claims that he “settled eight wars and I’ve got two more coming.”

“So I’m not in love with Norway. Frankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a s--thouse country, actually,” he told the crowd, suggesting he would ban immigrants from the Nordic nation over his bruised ego.

“I don’t want anything to do with Norway, because I didn’t get the Nobel Prize ... So I don’t want anybody from Norway.”

The bitter insults mark a dramatic U-turn. Just days earlier at a campaign rally in Perry, Georgia, the U.S. leader used the exact same “s--thouse” slur against Libya, Yemen, Haiti, and Somalia, while pining for Nordic arrivals instead: “Why can’t we take people from like, well, Norway, Sweden?”

The diplomatic spat highlights an ongoing fixation for the president, who aggressively lobbied for the diplomatic award and previously called his loss an “indelible stain on the country of Norway.”

In 2025, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who later gave Trump the physical award.

Organizations hosting the process took the commander-in-chief’s public campaign in stride. Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, noted that officials “register that the interest for the Nobel peace prize is high and that people are lobbying to get it in many different ways.”

Despite the administration’s childish insults, foreign officials are taking the high road. “We place great value on our long-standing relationship with the United States, and our foreign policy remains robust,” Eide said, dismissing the administration’s noise as the U.S. government shows no signs of adopting official policy changes on Norwegian immigration.

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