WASHINGTON, D.C. – The White House has reportedly requested that the Nobel Committee “hold off just a little bit” on announcing this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
According to senior officials, the administration simply needs the Nobel Committee, which will announce the Nobel Piece Prize this Friday, to give the Trump administration “two weeks, and maybe another two weeks after that” to finalize some important peace-related developments that are “absolutely about to happen.”
The White House Press Secretary told reporters that the request was made “out of an abundance of optimism,” assuring the press corps that the President’s peace initiatives were “in the final stages of being drafted into a PowerPoint.”
When asked for details, the Press Secretary said the administration was close to something historic or at least historic-adjacent, and added that peace is a process, not a calendar event.
In Oslo, members of the Nobel Committee reportedly met the request with polite confusion.
“We were unsure whether this was satire or diplomacy,” said one committee member, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Usually, when a government asks us to delay, it’s because they’re planning a war, not a peace prize.”
The committee is said to be considering a compromise: announcing the winner as “TBD, pending U.S. scheduling.”
Meanwhile, White House aides have reportedly begun circulating internal drafts of a potential “Peace Framework Pre-Announcement Statement,” tentatively titled Operation Nobel Hold.
Sources say the President hopes to personally call the committee “as soon as the situation improves, or polling does, whichever comes first.”
Aides stress that the request should not be seen as a delay, it’s just a rolling, flexible, peace-adjacent timeline.
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