President Trump has another life achievement he has set his eyes on: the Nobel Peace Prize. And he’s already complaining about how it’s a travesty that he hasn’t won one yet.
At a stopover in Morristown, New Jersey, President Trump dropped by Fox News to answer a few questions. The reporter brought up a topic that clearly had been on Trump’s mind beforehand. The question was why Trump has never won the Nobel Prize and, in true Fox News fashion, he was even asked if he thought the organization should just change the name of the award and call it the Trump Peace Prize.
Trump, to his credit, ignored the question about renaming the award. But the man currently flirting with waging war against Iran argued that his negotiations in the Congo-Rwanda conflict and along the Pakistan-India border make him deserving of the honor. He argued, “I should have won it four or five times,” and concluded that he never will because they only give the award to liberals — which isn’t even true, as Henry Kissinger is very famously a controversial recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump: "They should give me the Nobel Prize for Rwanda and if you look, the Congo, or you could say Serbia, Kosovo, you could say a lot of them. The big one is India and Pakistan. I should've gotten it four or five times." pic.twitter.com/4sOl8evheN
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 20, 2025
But of course, it didn’t end there. Trump then took to posting more “truths” about this very serious matter on Truth Social, where he went fully unhinged, shouting into the void about all the wars he believes he has stopped and demanding that each one is worthy of a Nobel Prize. It’s unclear whether he wants just one or separate Nobel Prizes for all his achievements. It truly reads like the adult version of a child crying for a toy at the supermarket — or Kanye West insisting that his 20+ Grammys aren’t enough and he was “robbed” of the ones he didn’t win.
Folks, I think President Trump really wants a Nobel Peace Prize. pic.twitter.com/AQoBIv9ou1
— Yashar Ali(@yashar) June 20, 2025
This comes mere days after Trump hosted Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir at the White House. After the meeting, Trump took questions from reporters and thanked Munir for ending the war with India while also tossing in a few pleasantries about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Since then, Trump has been declaring that he stopped a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan. It is worth mentioning, however, that officials in India deny any assertion that the U.S. played any part in mediating peace between the two neighbors.
The peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, on the other hand, is reportedly still in its early stages. So the goal remains to stay at the negotiating table until both parties reach a beneficial and mutually acceptable agreement. It hardly seems like the moment for Trump to be demanding an award from the Nobel Committee.
That being said, on the final day of every year, all Nobel Prize winners gather for a roundtable — economists, writers, peace advocates. They discuss the world’s ills and how they believe they could fix them, and the conversation is posted on the official Nobel YouTube channel. Can you imagine the architect of the One Big Beautiful Bill having a recorded two-hour conversation with an economist?
Maybe not getting this award is actually the best-case scenario for Trump.
