Trump makes late Nobel Prize pitch: ‘Not bragging ... but I settled eight wars’

Donald Trump re-issued his call for the Nobel Prize committee to award him with the Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday as he leaned back into talk of his peacemaking efforts.Those peacemaking efforts, he says, are ongoing and will soon include “another one” — even though there’s no signs yet of meaningful progress in talks between the U.S. and Iran regarding another ceasefire.The president spoke to reporters at an announcement on his “Trump accounts” for children, after returning to Washington from a spree of campaign appearances across the country.“I’ve done stuff that nobody else has ever done. I’m not bragging, I’m just telling you the facts,” the president told reporters on Wednesday. “No president has probably ever settled any wars. I settled 8 wars."He then went after his predecessor, Barack Obama, whom he accused of not knowing why he’d received the 2009 Peace prize. The foundation in charge of awarding the prize gave the 2009 peace prize to Obama, then less than a year into his presidency, for his diplomatic efforts to reestablish ties with the Muslim world after nearly a decade of warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan led to a perception held by some that America was at war with the entire Muslim world.The 47th president said on Wednesday that he was more deserving of the prize than Obama.“Look, Obama got it, and he didn’t do anything-- he still doesn’t know what he got it for,” said Trump. “He got it when he was elected, right? Right at the beginning.”“Whether I get it or not, I have done far more [than anyone else],” the president said. This is a breaking news report. More to follow...