Donald Trump has many obsessions, which he frequently uses his many platforms to talk about. The tyranny of low-flow toilets. Windmills, and how they’re driving whales crazy. “The late, great Hannibal Lecter.” The Nobel Peace Prize, and how it’s basically a crime that he’s never gotten one.
Yes, Trump believes he should have been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize many times over, and it keeps him up at night that in his 79 years on earth, he’s never taken one home. World leaders have caught onto this—and also the fact that insisting the president has been robbed is an easy way to curry favor with him—hence Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to nominate Trump for a Nobel. Netanyahu announced the nomination at a meeting in Washington on Monday where he presented Trump with the letter he sent to the committee. On Thursday, the presidents of Guinea-Bissau and Gabon both endorsed the idea at a summit hosted by Trump in the White House. (Trump has previously been nominated by, among others, Pakistan, GOP representative Darrell Issa, and a Ukrainian lawmaker who later withdrew the nomination.)
Unfortunately, it’s not clear when or if the 47th president can expect his dream to come true, hence the literal years of complaining about the process being rigged against him.
February 2019
During a press conference at the White House, Trump claims that Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan, nominated him for a peace prize (reportedly because the US government asked Abe to), saying: “I think I can say this: Prime Minister Abe of Japan gave me the most beautiful copy of a letter that he sent to the people who give out a thing called the Nobel Prize. He said, ‘I have nominated you, or, respectfully, on behalf of Japan, I am asking them to give you the Nobel Peace Prize.’ I said, ‘Thank you.’ Many other people feel that way too. I’ll probably never get it. But that’s okay. They gave it to Obama. He didn’t even know what he got it for. He was there for about 15 seconds and he got the Nobel Prize. He said, ‘Oh, what did I get it for?’ With me, I probably will never get it.”
September 2019
Before a bilateral meeting with Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan, Trump tells reporters that he “would get a Nobel Prize for a lot of things, if they give it out fairly, which they don’t.”
January 2020
Days after assassinating Iran’s top general, Trump complains that even though he “saved” Ethiopia, it was Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed who got a Nobel Peace Prize. “I made a deal,” Trump told the crowd at an Ohio rally. “I saved a country, and I just heard that the head of that country is now getting the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the country. I said, ‘Did I have something to do with it?’ Yeah. But you know that’s the way it is. As long as we know, that’s all that matters. I saved a big war, I saved a couple of ‘em.”
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October 2024
At a campaign stop in Detroit, Trump rants: “If I were named Obama I would have had the Nobel Prize given to me in 10 seconds. He got the Nobel Prize. He didn’t even know what the hell he got it for. Remember, he got elected. Well so did I. He got elected and they announced he was getting the Nobel Prize.… He got the Nobel Prize for doing nothing, for getting elected, but I got elected too.”
February 2025
At an Oval Office meeting with Netanyahu, who was apparently taking notes, Trump declares: “They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.”
June 2025
Trump takes to Truth Social to tell his followers: “I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for this, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between India and Pakistan, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between Serbia and Kosovo, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for keeping Peace between Egypt and Ethiopia (A massive Ethiopian built dam, stupidly financed by the United States of America, substantially reduces the water flowing into The Nile River), and I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for doing the Abraham Accords in the Middle East which, if all goes well, will be loaded to the brim with additional Countries signing on, and will unify the Middle East for the first time in “The Ages!” No, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do, including Russia/Ukraine, and Israel/Iran, whatever those outcomes may be, but the people know, and that’s all that matters to me!”
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