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Trump Is Still Seething With Jealousy Over Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

The former president prattled on about how his own accomplishments in office had gone comparatively unrecognized, but insisted he wasn’t sore about his lack of a shiny gold Nobel.

Barack Obama has a shiny gold Nobel Peace Prize, and Donald Trump doesn’t, but that doesn’t bother him in the slightest. Really. While stumping in Detroit on Thursday, Trump got to discussing his predecessor and quickly fixated on the prize he won in October 2009. “If I were named Obama, I would’ve had the Nobel Prize given to me in 10 seconds,” Trump complained. “... He got elected and they announced he was getting the Nobel Prize. Remember? He said, ‘Oh. What did I do?’ He didn’t know what the hell he did. He got the Nobel Prize for doing nothing. For getting elected. But I got elected too.” The former president recalled how the Abraham Accords, an historic set of treaties normalizing relations between Israel and four Arab nations, had been secured in 2020 under his watch—and noting acidly that his efforts hadn’t been rewarded by the Nobel committee. “Unprecedented. Nobody thought it was possible. I’m not saying ‘want’ or not, I’m not saying—I’m just saying, if it was anybody else, liberal, Democrat, they would’ve had it before the damn thing was even signed,” he groused, adding that he wasn’t “looking for it, politicking for it,” but merely that he was pointing out “there’s a lot of unfairness in this world.”

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