“Norway is bracing for the aftermath of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on Friday as the Nordic nation has faced increasing pressure from Donald Trump and his administration to award it to the US leader,” is an actual fucking sentence in the lede of Bloomberg’s Thursday morning story headlined “Norway on Edge Over Trump Ahead of Nobel Peace Prize Verdict,” as though it were 1940 and Vidkun Quisling was teasing a “special announcement” about the country’s defense.

They were definitely “on edge” back then. And this is not to mock Bloomberg’s reporting, just the fact that such language is an apparently necessary and accurate description of the situation there as, per their article, there are worries of an “economic and diplomatic fallout” coming in less than 24 hours when the Peace Prize laureate – who is in almost no conceivable scenario is named Donald Trump – is announced. “Even so, there is growing indication that pressure has been, if anything, counterproductive,” Bloomberg writes, adding that the foreign minister at least twice went out of his way to say that the Norwegian government has no say in the Nobel committee’s decisions.

Not that such piddling details will matter to the MAGA Reich and its Fuhrer. Oslo obviously recognizes this and are trying to figure out how Trump losing would factor into ongoing trade negotiations with the US to lower the 15 percent tariff and the 40 percent of Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund tied up in American assets, all of them potential targets of the toddler’s wrath.