“I am honored to be nominated and I know it makes a huge difference,” Trump told Fox News Radio. White House correspondent John Decker… “I just think it’s great for our country. This shows that we are constantly trying to establish peace, not war. “
Trump’s nomination for the Peace Prize was submitted by Christian Tybring-Jedde, Norwegian MP who praised the president’s role in mediation world agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Trump said the so-called Abraham Agreement is just the beginning of a broader US effort to resolve protracted conflicts around the world.
“We are working on a peace agreement in Afghanistan, working directly with the Taliban, and this is going pretty well … we will probably find out about it pretty soon,” the president said. “So we are committed to bringing peace to the world, because the world has other issues to focus on.”
Tybring-Jeddah, in his letter of nomination for the Nobel Committee, said that the Trump administration “has worked harder to bring peace between countries than most other Peace Prize nominees.” But, as Decker pointed out, not everyone would describe Trump as a peacemaker.
Former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis recently described Trump as “the first president in my life who is not trying to unite the American people. Instead, he tries to divide us. “
“I think sometimes you have to break eggs to make an omelet,” Trump replied.
“Sometimes you really have to go and do the rough work … and then all of a sudden you get something very pretty.”
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“Sometimes you really have to go and do it, shuffle it, so to speak. And then all of a sudden, you get something very beautiful. “
The President claimed that his predecessors failed on the peace front because, as he put it, “we never had the talent to achieve this and make these deals.
“And I will tell you that other countries from the Middle East are dying to come. They, they want to come so badly, ”continued Trump. “We’re going to put it all together like a beautiful puzzle.
“It was a very difficult puzzle for many people. But I understood this, and I understand that they want peace. They have fought for decades and decades, and in some cases, they have fought for centuries. And they would like to see the world, and it will definitely happen. “
Addressing Wednesday’s announcement that 2,200 US troops will leave Iraq by the end of this month, Trump said the US military “is now at a stage where we can return very quickly. If something happens, we can come back very quickly.
“Militarily, this is a different century,” the president said. “We just spent $ 2.5 trillion on military equipment and other things related to our army … We have never had more modern equipment, and today this equipment is very different from what it was even 10 years ago, even Five years ago. back. And we don’t have to be there. “
However, Trump added, the leaders of Afghanistan and Iraq “have understanding, and they have all been told that if something happens we can return so quickly with a force that is much stronger than we have now.”
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