Norway’s government does not award the prize, which is given out by an independent committee.
The American president’s declaration that he is no longer so fixated on playing peacemaker comes amid his increasingly aggressive saber-rattling on Greenland, the self-ruling Danish territory he has vowed to seize for the U.S.
Over the weekend, Trump announced he would slap punishing tariffs as of Feb. 1 on European countries that stood against his plans to annex Greenland, leading European Council President António Costa to call an emergency summit of EU leaders for this week.
Trump campaigned hard for the Nobel award, which former U.S. President Barack Obama won in 2009, and has repeatedly claimed to have ended at least eight conflicts, a figure that fact-checkers have disputed.
The prize ended up going to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who last week gifted her medal to Trump — though the Nobel committee subsequently issued a statement that while the physical medal may change hands, the actual honor itself is not transferable.