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US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but acknowledged that there are doubts about his chances of winning it.

Regarding the 2026 prize that the Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce on Friday, Trump said, “I don’t know what their decision will be.” “They have a reputation that they might not give to people like me.”

Trump has repeatedly repeated since his return to the White House last year that he deserves what can be described as the highest status award in the world.

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, “The time has come... but I was very honored to receive it indirectly last time from the winner, who said that no one in history deserves it more than President Trump.”

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado handed over the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump in January, as part of her effort to obtain US support for her efforts in Venezuela.

Trump believes that he deserves the award after his involvement in efforts to resolve eight conflicts since he took office.

The leaders of Cambodia, Israel and Pakistan said they nominated Trump, but there is no way to verify this.

Parties in some of the conflicts that Trump says he has resolved are skeptical about the US president's diplomatic role, and clashes have broken out again in some of those regions, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo and on the border between Cambodia and Thailand.

Trump was unable to reach a solution to the Russian war in Ukraine, even though he promised to end it on the first day of his second term in the White House. US-Israeli strikes on Iran sparked a seven-month conflict, disrupting global energy supplies and rising gas prices ahead of the midterm elections in November.

It should be noted that Pope Leo, the International Criminal Court, and the Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories are among the most likely candidates to win the award this year.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth awarded the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln a high-level medal during a visit he made to the carrier on Wednesday, one day before it returned to its base in San Diego, after the longest deployment mission in its history in support of the war against Iran.

Hegseth said that the “Presidential Unity Medal,” which is the highest honor an American military unit can receive and is usually given in recognition of outstanding achievements in combat, was awarded to the “Lincoln” carrier and its accompanying ships in recognition of “40 days of combat operations and imposing a tight naval blockade on Iran in support of Operation Epic Fury,” referring to the symbolic name given by the Trump administration to the war with Iran.

The carrier spent a record 265 consecutive days at sea, and its extended mission received national attention following reports of crew members suffering from stress and mental health problems, as well as shortages in supplies, including food and personal hygiene products.

After a deployment that lasted more than 10 months, the “Lincoln” carrier stopped in Thailand at the beginning of last month, during its return from the Middle East.