President Trump said Tuesday that every United Nations leader nominated him for a Nobel Prize.
At a White House press briefing commemorating his first year back in office, he said he wished the U.N. “could do more.”
“But the United Nations, you know, with all the wars I settled, the United Nations never helped me on one war,” he said. “I mean, I guess I’m not blaming them. I didn’t call them to help, but I got, you know, the presidents and prime ministers together, we knocked heads. We got along, and they like me. I like them.”
He added, “Every single one of them nominated me for a Nobel Prize.”
Mr. Trump is the odds‑on favorite to win the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, according to new betting lines, outpacing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Pope Leo XIV, the late Charlie Kirk and global humanitarian aid groups. BetOnline lists him with 5/1 odds.
He has publicly shared his desire for the award, arguing that his accomplishments, many of which he touched on during Tuesday’s press conference, give him a leg up.
As he has openly campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado received the prize last year.
On Thursday, Mr. Machado presented her prize to the U.S. president, but the Nobel Foundation said it cannot be handed off to someone else, prompting backlash from the White House.
White House Deputy Secretary Anna Kelly said the foundation wanted “to criticize instead of recognize his incredible efforts towards PEACE,” while Director of Communications Steven Cheung said, “They should highlight the President’s unprecedented accomplishments.”
More recently, Mr. Trump wrote to Norway’s prime minister, saying that he no longer feels obligated “to think purely of Peace” because he had not been awarded the coveted prize.
“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” he wrote in the letter.
