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10. Trump doesn't want to piss off the Nobel Committee; he desperately wants that Peace Prize

not in small part because Obama got one - which is why he's tying himself in knots trying to stop Putin from bombing Ukraine without pissing him off, too. He figures the prize is in the bag if he can broker a Ukraine peace deal, but neither Putin nor Zelenskyy is cooperating. In any event, I can't think of another reason why he'd be meeting with the Prime Minister of Norway and its Finance Minister (the former SecGen of NATO) except to suck up to them, Norway being a small country without a lot of power (except for oil and money). But the Nobel Committee is nominated by the Norwegian Parliament, so he probably figures buttering up the PM and an important Minister might get him some pull with the committee. I very much doubt it. Stoltenberg already knows Trump too well from NATO.