With just hours to go before the announcement of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, all eyes are on Oslo — and on how US President Donald Trump might respond if his name is not called.

The prestigious award will be revealed at 11 a.m. CST (3 p.m. Bangladesh time) Friday, but tension is already high in Norway, where politicians and analysts are reportedly “prepared for anything” if Trump feels snubbed.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee confirmed on Thursday that it had already chosen the 2025 Peace Prize laureate — notably days before Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire under Trump’s much-touted Gaza peace plan. Given the timeline, most Nobel observers believe Trump’s chances are slim.

Kirsti Bergstø, leader of Norway’s Socialist Left Party, said Oslo must brace for potential diplomatic fallout.

Donald Trump is taking the US in an extreme direction — attacking freedom of speech, cracking down on institutions and the courts. When a president is this volatile and authoritarian, of course we have to be prepared for anything,” Bergstø told The Guardian.

She reminded that the Nobel Committee operates independently from the Norwegian government, though she expressed doubts about whether Trump understands that distinction.

Trump, who has repeatedly claimed he deserves the Peace Prize, once even called Norway’s finance minister and former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to ask about the award.

At the UN last month, he declared, “Everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize,” after boasting that he had ended “seven unending wars.”

But experts say the Nobel is likely to go elsewhere this year.

Nina Græger, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, named Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom as frontrunners.

While Trump deserves credit for his efforts to end the Gaza war, it’s too early to tell whether his proposal will bring lasting peace,” Græger noted. “His retreat from international institutions and democratic norms does not align with Nobel’s will.”

As the countdown to the announcement continues, the world waits — not just to see who wins the Nobel Peace Prize, but how Donald Trump reacts if he doesn’t.