Donald Trump has been saying he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for years. Yesterday, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado handed Trump her medal she received earlier this year, but is that really how it works? The Nobel Peace Center has issued a rare statement clarifying whether Trump can accept the award.
Donald Trump has long wanted the Nobel Peace Prize. In recent months, as the 2025 year’s prize was set to be announced, the President of the United States ramped up his tone about how he is worth getting it as he stopped “eight wars.”
In October, he even slammed former President Barack Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.
“He got a prize for doing nothing,” Trump said. “Obama got a prize, he didn’t even know what he got. He got elected and they gave it to Obama for doing absolutely nothing but destroying our country.”
Trump added, “He was not a good president,” claiming that his 2024 reelection was “much more important” than Obama’s victory in 2008.
The former real estate mogul didn’t receive the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Just days after his rant about Obama, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 2025 peace prize would be awarded to Maria Corina Machado.
