United States President Donald Trump reacted to not winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year, revealing that the laureate, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, had called to say she accepted the award in his honour.
“The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called me today and said, ‘I am accepting this in honour of you because you really deserved it.’ A very nice thing to do,” Trump told reporters on Friday.
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He then added with a hint of humour, “I did not say ‘then give it to me’ though,” prompting laughter from those present. “I think she might have. She was very nice, and I have been helping her along the way,” he said.
Machado, who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, had earlier dedicated her win to the people of Venezuela and to President Trump.
“I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!” she wrote in a post on X.
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Commenting on why the prize may not have been awarded to him, Trump suggested it could be because the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 was given during the time he was running in the presidential election.
“I am happy because I saved millions of lives,” he said.
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During the media interaction, Trump again highlighted his role in various international peace negotiations, claiming to have brokered eight peace deals globally, including between Israel and Gaza, and India and Pakistan. India has publicly and consistently rejected these claims.
“In the case of India and Pakistan, seven planes were shot down, it was a bad one, and I did it largely through trade,” he claimed.
He explained that he had used tariffs as leverage to de-escalate tensions.
“I talked tariffs. I said, look, if you’re gonna do this, we’re gonna put very big tariffs on your country. And they were both great, they stopped fighting, and they were two nuclear powers,” he added.
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