“That’s completely unheard of,” Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor with the University of Oslo and a former politician, told public broadcaster NRK. “It’s a total lack of respect for the award, on her part,” she said, calling the act “meaningless” and “pathetic.”
LOL @ the both of them.
I hold he’s afraid of dying because he’s so close to death’s door that he’s doing the prosperity gospel’s thing of trying to look good for god. He’s siphoning all the money he can, getting awards and structures built for him thinking it’s his way into heaven. Because a man like that would see holy salvation as transactional.
Mostly because he sees everything as transactional.
When you’re a drag to be around, nobody hangs out with you unless they want something from you. And that just reinforces the worldview that everything is transactional.