Donald Trump Is Upset About Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize, Claims ‘He Got It for Doing Nothing, I Actually Did Something’

Donald Trump suggested he would have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize had he been elected U.S. president as Barack Obama.Trump campaigned in Detroit, Michigan, on Thursday at the Detroit Economic Club, where he compared himself to his predecessor over the accolade. “If I were named Obama, I would have had the Nobel Prize given to me in 10 seconds,” Trump said. “He got the Nobel Prize. He didn’t even know what the hell he got it for. Remember, he got elected. Well, so did I. He got elected, and they announced he was getting the Nobel Prize. He got the Nobel Prize for doing nothing, for getting elected, but I got elected too.”Trump purported that Obama only received the prize “for getting elected.” The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize in 2009 “for extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” less than a year into his first presidential term.“Thanks to Obama’s initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened,” the committee said in a 2009 statement.However, the award did draw criticism.After inheriting fraught international tensions marred...