Trump says he deserves Nobel prize for stopping seven wars, including India-Pakistan
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New York: US President Donald Trump has reiterated his claim that he helped defuse tensions between India and Pakistan earlier this year through trade, arguing that he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “ending seven wars.”
Speaking at the American Cornerstone Institute Founder’s Dinner on Saturday, Trump said, “We are forging peace agreements, and we are stopping wars. So we stopped wars between India and Pakistan, Thailand and Cambodia.”
He claimed trade played a central role in preventing conflicts. “Think of India and Pakistan. Think of that. And you know how I stopped that — with trade. They want to trade. And I have great respect for both leaders. But when you take a look at all of these wars that we’ve stopped,” he said.
Listing conflicts he said had been resolved, Trump mentioned India-Pakistan, Thailand-Cambodia, Armenia-Azerbaijan, Kosovo-Serbia, Israel-Iran, Egypt-Ethiopia, and Rwanda-Congo. “Like with India, I said, ‘look, we’re not going to do any trade if you’re going to fight and they have nuclear weapons. They stopped,’” he added.
Trump also said he was told that if he could stop the war between Russia and Ukraine, he might be awarded the Nobel Prize. “I said, ‘Well, what about the seven others? I should get a Nobel Prize for each one’. So they said, ‘but if you stop Russia and Ukraine, sir, you should be able to get the Nobel’. I said I stopped seven wars. That’s one war, and that’s a big one,” he remarked.
The president further noted that he had once thought the Russia-Ukraine conflict would be the easiest to resolve, citing his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Because I have a good relationship with President Putin, disappointed in him, but I do. I thought that would be the easiest one, but we’ll get it done one way or the other,” he said.