Donald Trump says he deserves a Nobel Prize for ‘a lot of things’
- US president hailed his own negotiating skills and bemoans that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize
US President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that he deserves a Nobel Prize for “a lot of things” but complained that the committee that hands out the awards does so unfairly.
The comment came during a bilateral meeting in New York with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan after Trump said he was “ready, willing and able” to mediate between India and Pakistan in a decades-old dispute over the territory of Kashmir.
“If you can solve this outstanding issue of Kashmir, very likely and definitely you’ll be deserving a Nobel Prize,” a Pakistani journalist told Trump.
“I think I’m going to get a Nobel Prize for a lot of things, if they gave it out fairly, which they do not,” Trump said.
He also alluded to former president Barack Obama’s 2009 Nobel Prize, which the Norwegian Nobel Committee said was in recognition of work on nuclear non-proliferation and creating a “new climate” in international relations.
“They gave one to Obama immediately after his ascent to the presidency, and he had no idea why he got it,” Trump told reporters in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. “You know what, that was the only thing I agreed with him on.”