Trump Says It Would Be an ‘Insult’ if He Doesn’t Win Nobel Peace Prize

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending what he described as at least seven international conflicts, warning it would be an “insult” to the United States if he is overlooked.

Speaking to top military officers a day after unveiling a Gaza peace plan, Trump said that if the proposal succeeds, it would mark the eighth conflict he has helped resolve since taking office. “Will you get the Nobel Prize? Absolutely not. They’ll give it to some guy that didn’t do a damn thing,” he said. “It’d be a big insult to our country. I don’t want it — I want the country to get it.”

Trump has long expressed resentment that former President Barack Obama received the prize in 2009. In recent months, he has repeatedly claimed credit for mediating conflicts involving Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan, Rwanda and Congo, Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo. India, however, has denied Trump’s involvement in its 2019 clash with Pakistan.

While leaders including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have nominated him, experts say his chances are virtually nonexistent. “Completely unthinkable,” said Oeivind Stenersen, a historian of the prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which decides the award, stressed it is not influenced by campaigning.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner will be announced on October 10.