His predecessor, Barack Obama, has a Nobel Peace Prize on his shelf. Donald Trump doesn’t have one. This still bothers the ex-president 15 years later.
Washington DC – After just nine months in office, Barack Obama was presented with one of the greatest awards circulating in the world of politics: the Nobel Peace Prize. The honor even surprised the then US President himself and expressed the hope that people around the world associated with the beginning of his term in office. The committee honored Obama for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation among peoples.”
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama was met with much criticism. Many felt it was too early and inappropriate for the head of state of a country that was at the time embroiled in two wars and numerous military operations around the world.
Donald Trump speaks out about the Nobel Peace Prize
But hardly anyone was as bothered by the honor Donald Trump. The candidate of republican for the US election 2024 and Obama’s successor comes forward almost every year when the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded with a clear demand: he wants his own Nobel Peace Prize.
That’s what happened this year too. Donald Trump is on tour during the election campaign and stopped in Detroit, the largest city in the hotly contested swing state of Michigan. Once there, the ex-president attacked his competitor in his usual manner Kamala Harris and casually announced that his daughter Tiffany Trump was expecting a child.
Trump: “If my name was Obama, I would have the Nobel Prize in ten seconds”
He then quickly talked about the Nobel Peace Prize: “If my name was Obama, I would have gotten the Nobel Prize in ten seconds,” Trump claimed and said: “He was elected and they announced that he would get the Nobel Prize. Do you remember? He said, ‘Oh, what have I done?’ He didn’t know what the hell he had done. He won the Nobel Prize for doing nothing. Because he was elected. But I was also elected.”
Donald Trump backed his demand with the Abraham Accords – a treaty between Israel and four Arab states that came about under his leadership in 2020. The aim of the Abraham Accords was to normalize relations between Israel and its neighboring states and ensure peace in the region. At the beginning of the year, Trump was nominated again for the Nobel Peace Prize by a party colleague because of the agreement. His prospects were probably rather slim from the start this year too.
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Donald Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize
For Trump, the Abraham Accords alone were reason enough for at least a Nobel Peace Prize. “That was unprecedented. Nobody thought that was possible,” said the ex-president, who now really vented his anger: “I’m not saying whether I [den Preis] Want it or not, I’m just saying that anyone else, liberal or Democrat, would have gotten it before the damn thing was even signed.” The fact that his achievements are being ignored is a clear sign of the “injustice in this world”. (dil)
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