In yet another fiery outburst just hours before the 2025 Nobel Prize winner announcement, former US President Donald Trump reignited his long-standing feud with Barack Obama, accusing him of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize “for doing nothing.”
Speaking to reporters at the White House in Washington on Thursday (local time), Trump mocked the Nobel Committee’s 2009 decision to honour Obama, saying,
“He got it for doing nothing. Obama got a prize — he didn’t even know what for. They gave it to Obama for absolutely nothing but destroying our country.”
Obama, who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 (not 2008, as Trump stated) for what the Nobel Committee described as “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
Trump, who often touts his foreign policy record, went on to claim that he has resolved multiple wars during his tenure, including what he described as “the 2025 India-Pakistan conflict.” He insisted that his approach of using economic tariffs and negotiations instead of military intervention helped prevent major wars across the globe.
“Nobody in history has solved eight wars in a period of nine months,” Trump said confidently. “That’s never happened before. But they’ll have to do what they do. Whatever they decide is fine. I didn’t do it for that — I did it because I saved a lot of lives.”
While Trump stopped short of explicitly saying he deserves the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, his remarks clearly hinted at his belief that his “peace through strength” doctrine has achieved more than any of his predecessors.
As of now, only four US presidents have been honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize — Theodore Roosevelt (1906), Woodrow Wilson (1919), Jimmy Carter (2002), and Barack Obama (2009).
Trump’s comments, coming just before the Nobel Committee’s announcement, have stirred global debate once again about political influence, diplomacy, and the value of the Nobel Peace Prize itself. Supporters of Trump hailed his remarks as “truth-telling”, while critics accused him of using the Nobel platform for self-promotion and political mileage ahead of the next US election cycle.
