Would you vote Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize? : Video
U.S. President Donald Trump is once again campaigning not for office, but for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Republican leader has spent recent weeks touting what he claims are major diplomatic achievements, insisting it would be an “insult” to the United States if he doesn’t win the award.
In his most recent public engagements, he told world leaders at the UN General Assembly that “everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize.” However, experts in Oslo, where the prize is decided, say Trump’s chances are practically zero.
“It’s completely unthinkable,” said Oeivind Stenersen, a historian who has studied the Nobel Peace Prize extensively. Speaking to AFP, Stenersen said Trump is “in many ways the opposite of the ideals that the Nobel Prize represents.”
“The Nobel Peace Prize is about defending multilateral cooperation, for example, through the UN,” Stenersen added. “Trump breaks with that principle. He follows his own path, unilaterally.”
Trump has claimed he ended “six or seven wars” during his presidency, a figure experts call grossly exaggerated. While he often highlights the Abraham Accords, normalisation deals between Israel and several Arab states, analysts say those moves alone don’t align with the prize’s mission to reward diplomacy, peacebuilding, and respect for international law.
The Nobel Prizes are considered among the world’s most prestigious honours and will be announced next week, starting with medicine on Monday and ending with economics the following Monday. The Peace Prize winner will be revealed in Oslo on October 10.
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