Trump: Not winning the Nobel Prize would be an insult to the United States!
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that not awarding the United States the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in resolving several conflicts would be an insult to the country.
Trump, who has long sought the award, the winner of which will be announced on October 10, made the statement the day after announcing a plan to end the war in Gaza.
“Will you get a Nobel Prize? Absolutely not… They’ll give it to someone who did absolutely nothing,” Trump asked in a speech to senior US military leaders.
“It would be a huge insult to our country… I don’t want it, I want the country to get it,” he continued, adding, “It should get it, because nothing like this has ever happened before”.
Trump has long expressed his displeasure at Barack Obama being awarded the prize in 2009, just months after he assumed the US presidency.
In his speech on Tuesday, Trump reiterated his claim that he had ended seven wars since returning to the presidency in January.
Trump noted that if the plan to end the war in Gaza, which he announced at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday, succeeds, “we will have ended eight wars in eight months… That’s a very good thing”.
Trump’s chances of winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year are viewed as virtually nonexistent in Oslo, where the prize committee is based.
For its part, the Norwegian Nobel Committee confirmed that Trump’s campaigns would not influence it.
The Trump administration recently listed seven wars it claimed to have ended: between Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo-Serbia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo-Rwanda, Pakistan-India, Israel-Iran, Egypt-Ethiopia, and Armenia-Azerbaijan.
But while Trump is quick to take credit, much of what he claims is a partial achievement or a false claim.
