Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton says he was “always worried” the president would take Theodore Roosevelt’s Nobel Peace Prize from the White House.
Trump has publicly obsessed about his incapacity to safe the distinguished award and campaigned to obtain one with inflated claims of ending eight wars across the globe.
Bolton grew to become a significant critic of Trump’s since he was fired by the president in 2019. He now faces18 separate fees of mishandling labeled info in a case introduced by Trump’s DoJ.
He made the declare throughout an look on CNN on Monday night time and was requested concerning the 2025 prize being awarded to Venezuelan opposition chief Maria Corina Machado.
Trump was just lately requested if he would set up her because the chief of the nation if she gave him her award at their assembly on Thursday.
“Well, I have to speak to her,” Trump mentioned. “I’m gonna have to speak to her. She might be involved in some aspect of it. I will have to speak to her. I think it’s very nice that she wants to come in. And that’s what I understand the reason is… I can’t think of anybody in history that should get the Nobel Prize more than me. And I don’t want to be bragging, but nobody else settled wars.”
Bolton was requested about it by host Erin Burnett, who reminded viewers that the prize is “not transferable.”
“Look, it’s always all about Trump,” Bolton mentioned.
“He cares less about Venezuela than he does the prize. And by the way, she can give him the medallion and still keep the prize, if that’s what he wants. Theodore Roosevelt’s Nobel medallion hangs on the wall of the Roosevelt room in the White House. I’ve always worried Trump would grab that if he can’t get another one. She could probably find a replacement somewhere.”
Roosevelt was awarded the prize in 1906 after he helped finish the Russo-Japanese War by way of the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth.
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