Trump Renews Bid for Nobel Peace Prize, Claims He Has Settled Eight Wars

US President Donald Trump renewed his pitch for the Nobel Peace Prize at the Oval Office, claiming he had settled eight wars and “done stuff that nobody else has ever done”. Trump made the fresh bid at the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon, ahead of Friday’s announcement of the coveted award by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. “I’ve done stuff that nobody else has ever done. I’m not bragging, I’m just telling you the facts. No president has probably ever settled any wars. I settled eight wars,” Trump told reporters here. He then said that it would be a “great discredit” to the Nobel Committee not to honour him. “They have a reputation for maybe not giving it to people like me. But, whether I get it or not, I have done far more. And I think it would be a great discredit to them. And I’m not saying that out of scorn, I’m saying that when you settle eight wars, and nobody’s never,” the US president said. He said that his peacemaking efforts were continuing and hinted that he was on course to settle another war, apparently referring to the US-Iran conflict, which has now entered its eighth month. Trump then moved on to criticise former US President Barack Obama’s 2009 Nobel Peace Prize win, claiming Obama did not know why he had received the award. “Look, Obama got it, and he didn’t do anything. He still doesn’t know what he got it for. He got it when he got elected, right at the beginning, and he had no idea why he got it,” the US President said. He further recalled that last year’s Nobel laureate, Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado, handed her peace prize to him during a meeting at the Oval Office. “Last time they gave it to a young lady who’s a fabulous person, and she said she didn’t deserve it, that I deserved it, and she gave it to me,” the US President said. “I was very honoured to receive it indirectly. Last time by the recipient, who said nobody in history deserves it more than President Trump,” he said. POTUS then repeated that in the past year he had settled eight wars, secured the return of all hostages and used tariff threats to prevent conflicts.