WASHINGTON DC (US): US President Donald Trump expressed disappointment over not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize last year, claiming that he should’ve been awarded the prize for stopping each of the “eight” wars.
Trump took shots at the Norwegian government for, as he believed, “deliberately” not giving him the prize, despite Norway PM Jonas Gahr Store’s clarification that the government holds no authority over deciding Nobel laureates.
“Should have gotten the Nobel Prize for each war. But I don’t say that. I saved millions and millions of people. Don’t let anyone tell you that Norway doesn’t control the shots, okay? It’s in Norway, Norway controls the shots,” he said.
Trump praised Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, for “presenting” him with the Nobel Peace Prize, admitting that the US President deserved it more.
“That’s why I have such respect for Maria, doing what she did. She said, I don’t deserve the Nobel Prize. He does,” Trump said.
However, after Machado’s gesture, the Nobel Foundation clarified that Nobel Prizes cannot be passed on or further distributed, days after the Institute issued a statement saying that a laureate cannot share the prize with others, nor transfer it once it has been announced.
