The Trump campaign released an ad this week touting President Donald Trump's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, but Nobel was misspelled as "Noble."
The Facebook ad shows a smiling Trump with the text overlay: "President Donald Trump was nominated for the Noble Peace Prize." And a caption reads: "President Trump achieved PEACE in the MIDDLE EAST!"
The 2021 nomination came earlier this week from a far-right Norwegian lawmaker who praised Trump's role in fostering negotiations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates last month.
Christian Tybring-Gjedde told Fox News, "All efforts that lead to peace in that region should be awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize and also for Donald J. Trump."
Tybring-Gjedde previously threw Trump's name in the running in 2019 for his diplomatic efforts with North Korea.
The committee tasked with picking winners of the Nobel Peace Prize says two nominations it received for Donald Trump to be handed the honour were both forged.
Olav Njolstad, secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, told the NTB news agency someone using a stolen identity had put the US President forward for the award two years in a row.
Mr Njolstad said it appeared the same person had been responsible for forging both nominations and added Norwegian police had been informed.
"Every year, we get lots of invalid nominations, but these are nominations that are not valid because those who nominate are not qualified to do so", he told NTB.
"As far as I know, this is the first example of someone nominating someone by stealing another person's identity."
