Fact Check: Did Trump call Nobel Committee a 'total joke' after being denied the prize?
WASHINGTON, DC: Amid his repeated claims of stopping wars around the world and demanding a Nobel Peace Prize for it, a rumor is circulating online saying that President Donald Trump called the Nobel Committee a ‘total joke’ after not winning this year’s prize. The claim has triggered mockery and speculation, requiring a fact-check.
Claim: Donald Trump abused the Nobel Committee for not winning this year's prize
The claim surfaced in the form of a screenshot appearing to show a post by Trump on his official Truth Social handle.
The purported post read, “Look at the Nobel Committee-a total joke, completely RIGGED, just like the elections in the corrupt, failing Blue States! They just announced the Nobel Peace Prize, and they gave it to someone.”
“NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD OF! Meanwhile. I achieved TOTAL WORLD PEACE! I completely defeated Iran! I destroyed their Navy-wiped them out!"
"And then, just to be sure, I sent high-IQ, top-precision torpedoes to the bottom of the sea to blow up the sunken ships into tiny pieces so they can NEVER be rebuilt! Nobody has ever seen power like that!”
“I threatened to completely white out a civilization, and you know what happened? TOTAL PEACE! Total respect! And look at what else I did for peace: I attacked Venezuela for total peace!”
“I just sent elite troops into Colombia for peace! And I personally gave Netanyahu a massive batch of high-IQ missiles so he could finally bring total peace to Gaza! Incredible, historic moves! But the corrupt Nobel Committee ignores me totally! It's a complete FRAUD, just like the fake news and the Blue State mail-in ballots!”
The screenshot has been shared on multiple social media platforms with users appearing to believe it to be a real post by the president.
Fact Check: Donald Trump made no such post
However, the claim is false, as no such post appears on any of Trump’s social media accounts. A search for the post on Trump’s Truth Social account as well as on his commentary account on X, which archives his social media posts, yielded no results that match the text in the screenshot.
The screenshot has several signs of fabrication, including a watermark stating ‘satire.’ Other signs include the date and time being mentioned as the year ‘22026’ and ‘13: 62 AM.’
Trump’s username mentioned in the screenshot is also fake, which reads, ‘@realDotardTurmp,’ while his actual username is ‘@realDonaldTrump.’
