Trump makes stunning Nobel claim after boasting he saved the world

U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 2, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

President Donald Trump is not giving up on the Nobel Peace Prize and is making what could be his biggest claim yet on why he believes he deserves the honor.

“There’s never been anybody in the history of the Nobel Prize that deserves it more,” Trump said. “I settled eight wars. I stopped the total obliteration of the world because Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.”

His statement comes just two days before the Norwegian Nobel Committee's planned announcement of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Friday. The committee never publicly names its candidates, and it keeps its discussions confidential for 50 years, so any external assertions about who is under formal consideration cannot be independently verified.

Despite this, Trump’s rival and neighbor Mark Carney has been rumored to get the nod.

Trump has repeatedly maintained that his foreign-policy record entitles him to the award. In July, he told reporters that he should have been the one to win the prize "more than anyone else ever to have done so" since, as he stated, he had settled eight wars.

Independent fact-checkers and political commentators have questioned the claim. Trump has listed off the conflicts and disputes between India and Pakistan, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Israel and Iran, Cambodia and Thailand, Serbia and Kosovo, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Gaza.

Although his administration has been involved in reaching ceasefires and diplomatic agreements in a number of instances, in some cases the situations were not ongoing wars, and in others the disputes remained unresolved, or violence continued.

After Trump repeated the claim in his 2026 State of the Union address, CBS News looked into it and discovered that the president had exaggerated the record. The outlet pointed out that in some instances the matters in question were diplomatic disputes and not wars, and that several agreements had not resulted in a definite end to the fighting.

The fact that Trump has been seeking the Nobel Prize in such an open manner is notable. When María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, she gifted Trump her medal at a meeting at the White House in January. The Nobel Committee has made it clear that a prize cannot be transferred or shared once awarded.

Nevertheless, Trump accepted the gift and has kept on referring to Machado's gesture as a reason for the committee to recognize him directly.

According to the Norwegian Nobel Institute, the Peace Prize for this year will be announced at 11 a.m. Central European Summer Time on Friday, 9th October. The committee states that 287 candidates were submitted this year, comprising 208 individuals and 79 organizations, although it maintains the identities of these candidates confidential.

For Trump, though, the verdict seems already to be in.

On Wednesday, he did not say only that he should be regarded as one of the candidates; rather, he asserted that, considering the whole history of the Nobel Prize, no one had been more deserving to receive it than himself.

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