"I love stopping wars. And sort of interesting, I'll be the only president. I don't think any president has stopped one war. I stopped eight wars in eight months. Did I get a Nobel Prize? No. Can you believe it? Even I said that's an impossible one. But it's alright, I suspect that next year will be better, but I don't know. You know what I care about? I saved maybe hundreds of millions of lives."
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last week. Over the past two years, she has reenergised a politically disengaged population after more than a decade of economic and social collapse.
The White House had criticised the Nobel Committee's decision to grant the peace prize to the Venezuelan opposition leader instead of Trump, who aggressively lobbied for the award and touted his role in brokering international ceasefire deals.
Trump repeatedly says he has ended eight wars since taking office and that he deserves the peace prize, though recently he had said he expected to be passed over.
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