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... The president is also unsure how the ongoing Iran war will impact his future chances of getting one.
Speaking with the Washington Examiner, Trump said he had "no idea" if the Iran conflict would "get him over the finish line" with the Nobel committee.
"I don't know," he added. "I'm not interested in it." ...
Throughout 2025, the president claimed he had stopped at least eight wars since taking office, though an Independent fact-check underscored how many of these claims were inaccurate, exaggerated, or premature.
That didn't stop nations and institutions seeking favor with Trump from playing into the president's well-known interest in a Nobel Prize, which reportedly is fueled in part by his anger that President Barack Obama won one first.
In January, Venezuelan opposition leader Mara Corina Machado symbolically gave her Nobel Prize to Trump during a White House meeting, though the prize organizers say she remains the sole holder of that year's honor.
The prior month, the international soccer organizing body FIFA gave Trump a newly created peace prize, which it announced weeks after Trump was snubbed for a Nobel and came as FIFA prepares to host the World Cup in North America in 2026. ...
