Trump says not winning Nobel Peace Prize would be ‘insult’ to US
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US President Donald Trump addressing senior military officers in Quantico, Virginia, US, on Sept 30.
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- Trump believes it's an "insult" if he doesn't receive the Nobel Peace Prize for solving multiple wars, including the Gaza conflict.
- Trump claims to have solved seven wars since January and anticipates an eighth if his Gaza plan succeeds, despite Hamas's silence.
- Experts in Oslo consider Trump's chances of winning the prize to be "completely unthinkable" despite his campaigning efforts.
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QUANTICO, United States – President Donald Trump said on Sept 30 that it would be an “insult” to the US if he does not receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his self-proclaimed role in solving multiple wars.
Mr Trump, who has long sought the prize, which will be announced on Oct 10, made the latest push for his case a day after he announced a peace plan to end the war in Gaza.
“Will you get the Nobel Prize? Absolutely not. They’ll give it to some guy that didn’t do a damn thing,” Mr Trump said, during a speech before hundreds of top US military officers.
“It’d be a big insult to our country, I will tell you that. I don’t want it, I want the country to get it,” he added.
“It should get it, because there’s never been anything like it.”
Mr Trump, a Republican, has long been irked by the fact that former president Barack Obama, a Democrat, won the prize in 2009.
In his Sept 30 speech, Mr Trump repeated his recent claim that he has solved seven wars since his return to office in January.
Mr Trump said that if the Gaza plan he unveiled
Hamas has yet to respond to the plan.
But the chances of Mr Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025 are regarded as close to zero in Oslo, where the prize is based.
“It’s completely unthinkable,” Mr Oeivind Stenersen, a historian who has conducted research and co-written a book on the Nobel Peace Prize, told AFP.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has also insisted it cannot be swayed by Mr Trump’s campaigning for the prize.
“Of course, we do notice that there is a lot of media attention towards particular candidates,” Mr Kristian Berg Harpviken, the secretary of the committee, told AFP recently.
“But that really has no impact on the discussions that are going on in the committee.”
Mr Trump’s administration recently listed the seven wars it said he has ended as being between Cambodia and Thailand; Kosovo and Serbia; the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda; Pakistan and India; Israel and Iran; Egypt and Ethiopia; and Armenia and Azerbaijan.
But while Mr Trump has been quick to claim credit for some, such as announcing a ceasefire between nuclear-armed Delhi and Islamabad in May, many of the claims are partial or inaccurate. AFP
