Trump posts clip comparing himself to Winston Churchill after Nobel Prize snub | World | News
Donlad Trump has taken to social media to post a video where he was compared to Sir Winston Churchill – hours after he was snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump previously claimed to have ended “seven ‘un-endable’ wars. However, the committee instead awarded the prize to Venezuelan opposition leader and politician María Corina Machado.
Now the US President has taken to Truth Social to share a video of Fox News contributor, Newt Gingrich, following the award announcement. In the minute-long clip, Mr Gingrich compares the 47th President to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President who led the US through the Great Depression and World War 2, and former UK Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, who held office from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. “I think that President Trump is now moving in to be a world figure in the sense that President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill were,” Mr Gingrich said. “He is achieving an orchestration of all of the major Arab states in order to support a peace agreement and he is bringing enough pressure to bare on Benjamin Netanyahu that the Israelis are going to go along… whether they wanted to or not.
“And, as a result, he is creating […] a forge of peace out of the sheer pressure of his personality and his ability to create friendships, friendships in Saudi Arabia, friendships in the UAE […] friendships in Egypt… this is an amazing orchestration by Donald Trump.”
“If it works, and I suspect it will,” he continued, “you’re going to see a moment of history that literally puts him in the same league as Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.”
Trump has made no secret of his desire to win the prize. “In a period of just seven months, I have ended seven ‘un-endable’ wars,” he claimed during his address to the United Nations General Assembly last month. “No President or Prime Minister — and for that matter, no other country — has ever done anything close to that.”
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, he raised the count to eight, adding the new Gaza ceasefire to his list.
Among the wars Mr Trump has claimed to have ended are the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, in which the US struck Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 22 and a ceasefire was announced two days later, India vs. Pakistan in May and the deadly border clashes between Cambodia and Thailand which broke out in late July, but ended four days later when Mr Trump threatened to withold trade deals if the fighting continued.
Pakistan said it would nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize while praising his contributions to global peace. However, like Israel‘s Benjamin Netanyahu, Pakistan’s nomination occurred after the February 1 deadline for the 2025 award.
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, María Corina Machado, was applauded for being a “key, unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided — an Opposition that found common ground in the demand for free elections and representative government,” by Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee.
He continued: “In the past year, Miss Machado has been forced to live in hiding. Despite serious threats against her life, she has remained in the country, a choice that has inspired millions. When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist.”
Four of the other prizes have already been awarded in Stockholm this week – in medicine on Monday, physics on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The winner of the prize in economics will be announced on Monday (October 13).
