Trump caught complaining about Nobel Peace Prize snub on hot microphone
President Donald Trump appeared in a bad mood about being ignored by the Nobel Peace Prize committee at a meeting with Israeli leaders at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday.
The president was captured complaining to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a delegation in a heated microphone moment, People magazine reported, at a meeting to discuss the US-backed ceasefire plan between Israel and forces in Gaza.
“Do I get credit for it? No,” he complained to Netanyahu, who was actually the one who nominated Trump for the Nobel Prize in June.
After crediting himself for ending “eight wars,” Trump was interrupted while saying that the prize committee “gave the Nobel” to someone else. The person in question was Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who dedicated the honor to Trump when she accepted the award in October.
Trump then asked the table, “What about India and Pakistan? So I did eight of them. And then I’ll tell you the rest.”
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Although Trump has repeatedly boasted that he has helped end eight international conflicts, his tally is not as simple as he would like it to seem.
He did participate in negotiating ceasefire agreements between Israel and Iran, as well as Cambodia and Thailand.
However, India and Pakistan maintain that their own militaries are solely responsible for temporarily resolving long-standing tensions between the neighboring nations in May, but each has accused the other of violating the terms of their armistice since then.
Meanwhile, the current conflict between rival factions in eastern Congo can hardly be considered over.
Experts maintain that there was no official military conflict to negotiate an end to between Serbia and Kosovo, another supposed peace deal on Trump’s list. Similarly, Egypt remains at odds with Ethiopia over access to the Nile River, although the dispute has yet to escalate into military violence.
He did participate in mediating an agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia, but that victory was partially tainted when the president confused Armenia with Albania during what was supposed to be a victory speech.
Talks are underway about a peace deal with Ukraine and Russia, as Trump offered security guarantees to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during another meeting at Mar-a-Lago on Monday.