US President Donald Trump has criticized the accomplishments of his predecessor Barack Obama, accusing him of “doing nothing” and “destroying our country” in his intense quest for the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump boasted to reporters at the White House about stopping “eight wars” and winning peace in Gaza, but he said he didn’t do it for recognition.
Trump lamented that Obama only earned the Nobel Prize a few months into his term, just hours before the award is set to be revealed.
“He received it without doing anything. Obama received a prize—he had no idea what it was—for winning the election, and they handed it to him for doing nothing but ruining our nation,” Trump claimed.
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The coveted honor was given to Obama in 2009, eight months into his first term. Many were taken aback by the decision; the liberal New York Times said the Nobel’should have a higher standard’ and that the acknowledgment was’very premature.’
According to Trump, “they gave it to Obama for absolutely nothing but destroying our country,” following the finalization of the historic peace agreement between Israel and Hamas mediated by the United States.
That’s never occurred before since I’ve stopped eight wars, but they’ll have to do what they do. It doesn’t matter what they do. I am aware of this: I saved many lives, so that’s why I did it,” he continued.
In Oslo, Norway, the Nobel Peace Prize will be presented Thursday at 5 a.m. EST. Trump’s attempt to sway Norway’s Peace Research Institute Oslo, which assists the Nobel Committee in evaluating Nobel Peace Prize applicants, has been anything but subtle since he arrived to the White House in January.
He frequently overstated his own importance while claiming credit for achievements and events. He virtually put himself forward for the Nobel Peace Prize last month, saying in his speech to the UN that he had “ended seven un-endable wars.”
The countries concerned have contested his role in mediating ceasefires in several of the other hostilities he has boasted about ending, even though he undoubtedly helped to establish peace between some long-standing enemies.
