Donald Trump complained on Thursday that he does not have a Nobel Peace Prize, but his fellow ex-president Barack Obama undeservedly does. (Watch the video below.)
Obama won the prize in 2009 “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation among peoples,” according to the Nobel Prize website.
During a campaign stop in Detroit, the Republican candidate groused about the perceived diss, saying he wasn’t doing “politics” for the honor.
He praised the Abraham Accords reached during his administration to normalize relations between Israel and some Arab countries. Then he took a detour in his jealous complaint.
“If my name was Obama, I would have received the Nobel Prize in ten seconds,” he said. ‘He got the Nobel Prize. He didn’t even know what he was in for. Remember, he was chosen. Well, I did that too. He was elected and they announced that he would receive the Nobel Prize. … He got the Nobel Prize for doing nothing, because he got elected, but I got elected too.”
The lack of a Nobel Peace Prize is a simmering problem for Trump, who has been nominated several times. (Thousands of people are eligible to nominate the candidates and he has been nominated twice by the same far-right Norwegian politician.)
Trump called the deal “unprecedented” and suggested he should have received the prestigious award for it.
“I’m just saying that if it had been anyone else, liberal or Democrat, they would have had it before the damn thing was even signed,” he said.
“I’m not making politics out of it,” he added. “I’m just saying there’s a lot of unfairness in this world.”
Trump: If my name was Obama, I would have won the Nobel Prize. He got the prize, but he didn’t know what he got it for. He was elected. Me, too. I was chosen too. There is a lot of unfairness in this world pic.twitter.com/ioR06AxlBr
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 10, 2024
