US President Donald Trump said that the 44th US President Barack Obama was unfairly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and that his actions led to the destruction of the country.
“He got the prize for doing nothing“, Trump said of Obama during a meeting with his Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb at the White House. “Nothing but destroying our country”, the head of the Washington administration emphasized. He did not explain why.
“He was not a good president. The worst president was sleepy Joe Biden, Trump said. "How many months after being elected did they give him the Nobel Peace Prize? My election was much more important," the US head of state added.
Trump expressed confidence that he himself deserves to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. "I don't know what they're going to do," the US leader said, referring to the Nobel Committee. "But I know that no one in history has ever resolved eight wars in nine months." "And I stopped eight wars. I didn't do it for the prize."
Nobel Prize Week opened in Stockholm on October 6. The Nobel Peace Prize winner will be announced in Oslo on October 10.
Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2009 "for his outstanding efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." The Nobel committee also noted his "vision for a world without nuclear weapons and his work to achieve these goals." Obama took office in January of that year.