The Guardian reports that he called Jens Stoltenberg out of the blue while he was walking down the street one day:
In a statement to Reuters, Stoltenberg, the former Nato secretary-general, said the call focused on tariffs and economic cooperation ahead of Trump’s call with Jonas Støre, the Norwegian prime minister.
“I will not go into further detail about the content of the conversation,” Stoltenberg said, adding that several White House officials including the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and US trade representative, Jamieson Greer, were on the call.
I would say this could have been misrepresented by the Norwegian press if it weren’t for the fact that he can’t stop talking about how he deserves to win the prize and said this publicly about the Kennedy Center Honors just two days ago.
Why would we think he’d be above threatening tariffs if he doesn’t win the Nobel Prize?