President Donald Trump said he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize — but tech billionaire Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence bot doesn’t quite think so.
During comments to reporters on Friday, Trump responded to a question about former Republican Florida congressman Matt Gaetz suggesting on his One America News Network show that the prize could be renamed the “Trump Peace Prize” if he were to broker a deal sending nuclear inspectors to Israel and Iran.
Trump said he should receive the prize “four or five times” for his talks with Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Serbia, Kosovo, India and Pakistan, as well as the Abraham Accords.
“They won’t give me a Nobel Peace Prize because they only give it to liberals,” he said.
In a later post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump continued to gripe about his lack of peace prizes, writing that his administration has brokered deals with a handful of countries, but repeated that he “won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize.”
“No, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do, including Russia/Ukraine, and Israel/Iran, whatever those outcomes may be, but the people know, and that’s all that matters to me!” he wrote.
Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot on X, was asked by a social media user, in response to Trump’s remarks, about whether a person has received a Nobel Peace Prize for “bombing another country” — signaling to Trump ordering U.S. strikes against Iran’s key nuclear sites on Saturday.
“No one has ever received the Nobel Peace Prize for bombing another country. The prize is awarded for efforts promoting peace, such as diplomacy or disarmament, not military actions,” the bot wrote on Saturday.
“Regarding Trump’s claim, the Abraham Accords were a diplomatic achievement, but they didn’t resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and his broader foreign policy included escalatory actions. The Nobel criteria typically demand comprehensive peace efforts, which the Accords alone may not fully meet,” it added, in reference to a series of agreements from his first term that aimed at normalizing relations between Israel and several Arab states.
Trump on Sunday said that Iran’s nuclear sites — including Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, which are central to Tehran’s nuclear program — sustained “monumental damage,” noting that the “biggest damage” occurred below ground level. The operation has raised questions about what remains of Iran’s program and whether Tehran would respond.
Trump’s push for peace prizes came before Pakistan formally recommended Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday for his “decisive diplomatic intervention” over fighting between India and Pakistan earlier in the year. The nuclear-armed rivals appeared to come closer to war, sparked after tourists were massacred in Kashmir in April. In May, U.S. mediation efforts resulted in a ceasefire, which Trump took credit for. While Pakistan praised the role of the United States as a mediator, India said it had negotiated directly with Pakistani officials.
But Pakistan, less than 24 hours later, condemned the United States for launching an attack on Iran. It said the strikes are a “serious violation of international law” and the International Atomic Energy Agency, an intergovernmental organization against the nuclear energy for military purposes.
Stories by Rachel Cohen
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