President Trump on Tuesday said it would be an insult to the United States if he doesn’t receive the Nobel Peace Prize after helping bring an end to seven global conflicts.
The president said he is hopeful that the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza will end with his 20-point peace plan that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled support for on Monday, which would mean he resolved eight conflicts.
“If this works out, we’ll have eight, eight in eight months. That’s pretty good,” Trump said during remarks to dozens of top generals and admirals in Quantico, Va. “Nobody’s ever done that. Will you get the Nobel Prize? Absolutely not.”
“They’ll give it to some guy that didn’t do a damn thing. They’ll give it to the guy who wrote a book about the mind of Donald Trump and what it took to solve the wars,” he continued. “The Nobel Prize will go to a writer.”
The president added, “No, but let’s see what happens, but it will be a big insult to our country. I will tell you that. I don’t want it. I want the country to get it. And it should get it because there’s never been anything like it.”
Qatar and Egypt transmitted Trump’s peace plan to Hamas for consideration, and although Netanyahu said he endorsed it, he promised to “finish” destroying Hamas if it fails to agree to the terms.
Trump would chair an international “board of peace” to govern and reconstruct the Gaza Strip as part of the plan. Additionally, the foreign ministers of Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar endorsed the plan but acknowledged the deal remained a work in progress.
The president has been raking up global support in his push for a Nobel Peace Prize, but ending the war in Gaza and the war in Ukraine are major diplomatic tests for him. He has garnered nominations so far from Pakistan, Cambodia, Israel and GOP lawmakers as he touts his role in talks to end various global conflicts.
The White House has publicly argued it is “well past time” Trump gets the prize as they push for it ahead of the decision in December by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.