President Donald Trump activated thousands of troops in Los Angeles this month and is currently mulling a U.S. war with Iran, but complained Friday that he hasn’t been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yet — and said he should’ve gotten “four or five” of them.
Trump announced one day prior that he will decide within a couple of weeks whether the U.S. military will get involved directly in the conflict between Iran and Israel, prompting an intensifying rift between him and several of his supporters who vehemently oppose U.S. involvement.
Presumably aware of Trump’s desire to be seen as a “peacemaker,” former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz (R) argued on his One America News Network show Thursday that he could see the Nobel honor renamed to the “Trump Peace Prize” if he avoids war.
Trump was asked about this Friday after flying to New Jersey to spend time at his golf club.
“Well, they should give me the Nobel Prize for Rwanda,” he told reporters. “And if you look to Congo, or you could say Serbia, Kosovo, you can say a lot of them. You could say, I mean, the big one is India and Pakistan. I should’ve gotten it four or five times.”
“I would think the Abraham Accords would be a good one, too,” Trump added. “They won’t give me a Nobel Peace Prize because they only give it to liberals.”
The accords, a series of agreements signed between several Arab League nations and Israel that were negotiated by the U.S. during Trump’s first term in 2020, aimed to normalize relations between them to deescalate tensions in the Middle East.
Foreign officials and national security experts criticized the accords at the time, arguing that they unfairly boosted Israel’s standing in the region while angering and isolating Palestine even further — and said the approach made Israeli-Palestinian peace less likely.
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Trump further complained about his lack of a peace prize Friday on social media, arguing that his administration has brokered deals between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Serbia and Kosovo, Egypt and Ethiopia, and India and Pakistan.
Trump has appeared frustrated about his lack of a Nobel Peace Prize for quite some time now, reportedly claiming last year that if he “were named Obama,” he would have received one “in 10 seconds.” Former President Barack Obama received the award in 2009.
Trump has since signaled support for Israel’s ongoing campaign against Iran.
Trump was asked last week about the findings of his own Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who testified during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in March that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. The president said Tuesday, “I don’t care what she said.”
Gabbard has since changed her tune: Friday on X, formerly Twitter, she said the “dishonest media” took her testimony out of context — and stated the U.S. now has intelligence that “Iran is at the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months.”
