A desire to win the Nobel Peace Prize appears to be motivating US President Donald Trump’s efforts to facilitate a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Trump cold-called the Norwegian finance minister last month to discuss the prize, the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv reported.
Several countries have already nominated him for the award; Trump claimed credit for defusing border clashes between India and Pakistan in May and a long-running dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Trump is “obsessed” with the prize, Le Monde argued, partly because his first predecessor Barack Obama won one early in his presidency: He grumbled last year that “If I were named Obama, I would have had the Nobel Prize given to me in 10 seconds.”