President Donald Trump has insisted nothing was standing in the way of the Nobel Committee awarding him this year’s peace prize, including the prize’s own rules.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to give a speech marking the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement, Trump complained that the committee should have taken the extraordinary—and logistically unrealistic—step of providing this year’s prize for events that took place within the last few weeks.

“Now, in all fairness to the Nobel Committee, it was for 2024. This was picked for 2024,” he said. “But there are those that say you can make an exception because a lot of things happened during 2025 that are done and complete and great. But I did this not for Nobel; I did this for saving lives.”

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