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Claiming yet again that helium solved the struggle betwixt India and Pakistan, U.S. President Donald Trump has said that "no 1 successful past is much deserving than him" of the Nobel Peace Prize, arsenic helium criticised erstwhile President Barack Obama for getting the honour adjacent though helium “didn’t bash anything”.
Mr. Trump, during a gathering successful the White House connected Friday (January 9, 2026) with lipid and state executives to sermon plans for the Venezuelan lipid reserves, besides reiterated his assertion that 8 jets were changeable down successful the struggle successful May past twelvemonth without clarifying to which state they belonged.
“Look whether radical similar Trump oregon don't similar Trump, I settled 8 wars, large ones. Some going connected for 36 years, 32 years, 31 years, 28 years, 25 years, immoderate conscionable getting acceptable to commencement similar India and Pakistan, wherever already 8 jets were changeable retired of the air,” Mr. Trump said.
The U.S. president besides said that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who had visited the White House past year, credited him for redeeming millions of lives by stopping the struggle betwixt the 2 nuclear-armed neighbours.
This is the 2nd clip successful arsenic galore days that Mr. Trump has claimed recognition for stopping the struggle betwixt India and Pakistan, an assertion helium has present made innumerable times since May 10 past twelvemonth erstwhile helium announced connected societal media that the 2 countries agreed to a “full and immediate” ceasefire aft a “long night” of talks mediated by Washington.
India launched Operation Sindoor connected May 7 past year, targeting panic infrastructure successful Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir successful retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam onslaught that killed 26 civilians.
India and Pakistan reached an knowing connected May 10 to extremity the struggle aft 4 days of aggravated cross-border drone and rocket strikes. India has consistently denied immoderate third-party intervention.
Mr. Trump further said that nary 1 successful past is much deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than him since helium has stopped 8 wars wrong 8 months of his 2nd word successful the White House.
He rebuked Mr. Obama for getting the Nobel Peace Prize soon aft assuming bureau successful 2009 adjacent though helium “didn’t bash anything”.
“I can't deliberation of anybody successful past that should get the Nobel Prize much than maine and I don't privation to beryllium bragging, but cipher other settled wars. Obama got the Nobel Prize. He had nary thought why. He inactive has nary idea. He walks around, helium says, ‘I got the Nobel Prize’. Why did helium get a Nobel Prize? He got it astir instantly upon attaining office, and helium didn't bash anything, and helium was a atrocious president,” Mr. Trump said.
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Mr. Trump asserted that 1 should get a Nobel Prize for "every warfare you stopped. These were large wars. These were wars that cipher thought could beryllium stopped”.
Mr. Trump claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him helium had been trying to halt 2 of the wars for 10 years and wasn't capable to bash it.
"He couldn't judge it. So successful theory, you should get the Nobel Prize for each warfare you stopped. Every 1 of them was major. But I don't attraction astir that. What I attraction astir is redeeming lives. I've saved tens of millions of lives,” helium said.
Mr. Trump was asked astir Venezuelan absorption person María Corina Machado, who dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize past twelvemonth to him, and has said she wants to springiness the honour to him.
Mr. Trump said Ms. Machado volition beryllium coming to Washington adjacent week and "pay her regards to our country, truly to me, but you cognize I'm a typical of the country, thing else, and she's coming successful sometime adjacent week”.
He said “it's precise nice” that Ms. Machado wants to travel in, “and that's what I recognize the crushed is due to the fact that Norway is precise embarrassed by what took place. I mean, they're getting decimated”, referring to Ms. Machado’s connection to springiness her Nobel Prize to him erstwhile the Oslo-based Nobel committee did not honour him past year.
“But I'm honoured that she's coming here. I look guardant to gathering her,” helium said.
A time earlier, successful an interrogation to Fox News, Mr. Trump said again that helium stopped the warfare betwixt India and Pakistan, the 2 atomic powers "ready to spell astatine it big”.
