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"I also settled eight wars. How about this? So, you see that? Today they gave out the Nobel Peace Prize to a person. I never heard of the person. Nobody did. It's a mystery person. How about this, though? I settled eight wars with letters being sent from every president and prime minister from all..."
[0:00] I also settled eight wars. How about this? So, you see that? Today they gave out the Nobel Peace
[0:08] Prize to a person. I never heard of the person. Nobody did. It's a mystery person. How about this,
[0:15] though? I settled eight wars with letters being sent from every president and prime minister from
[0:22] all of those countries that I helped to stop. They sent them to the Norwegian Nobel Committee,
[0:29] Norway. And I'm about to settle or win two more, Iran and Russia and Ukraine. We're going to get them.
[0:39] Russia, Ukraine. We're going to get that all done, too. And that's happening quickly. And
[0:48] I will tell you what, Iran will be very quick one way or the other. Either they give us everything
[0:55] or they don't exist any longer. They know that. But Russia, Ukraine and Iran, they're moving along at
[1:09] rapid speed. But forget them. Forget them. Just forget them. It's the eight wars that I've already
[1:15] settled. Any one of which, in particular, like Pakistan and India, they were going at it eight days.
[1:22] Eleven planes were shot down. It was done one. That's two nuclear nations. That would have been bad,
[1:30] but would be far more necessary. Think of it. Any one of these eight wars, you get the Nobel Prize.
[1:38] I did eight. No president's ever done any. I settled eight wars. Kosovo and Serbia. The Democrat
[1:50] Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. That war was going on for many years. Millions of people were killed.
[1:56] They got it settled. Pakistan and India. I called them up. I said, if you guys don't stop killing each
[2:05] other, I'm going to charge you 250 percent in tariffs and we're not going to trade with you.
[2:11] They said, no, no, no, you cannot do that. I said, yes, I can. And by the way,
[2:17] the prime minister of Pakistan, a great gentleman, by the way, great man, actually,
[2:22] he said, if President Trump hadn't stopped this war, 50 million people would have been killed.
[2:29] Two nuclear nations. And I don't know if it was 50. It could be much more than that,
[2:35] you know? Could be much better. Israel and Iran, in a sense, because Iran is,
[2:48] we've wiped out their nuclear capacity, totally wiped it out. Egypt and Ethiopia over the dam.
[2:55] They have a big dam project. Ethiopia built that dam, one of the biggest in the world,
[3:00] financed, of course, by America and stupid thing to do. And they took all the water from a place
[3:07] called the Nile River. It's not too good if you're Egypt and the Nile River has no water in it,
[3:15] but I worked that out. Armenia and Azerbaijan, 32 years. In fact, Putin couldn't believe it. He said,
[3:23] I've worked for 10 years to settle that war and I couldn't do it. I got it done in two days.
[3:28] Israel and Hamas. Hamas is a much different Hamas now. But additionally,
[3:36] I stopped Iran from having a nuclear weapon and blowing up the entire Middle East and ultimately
[3:43] far beyond the Middle East, including Europe, perhaps us. And I saved more lives than anyone
[3:52] in history. And as Maria Corrina Machado, a very fine woman, she got the Nobel Prize last year,
[3:59] do you remember? And she stated to the media when she announced and they announced that it was given to
[4:06] Maria, a very fine woman from Venezuela, and she said, no, no, no, I don't deserve this.
[4:14] I didn't know her. I never met her. Didn't hear of her. I don't deserve this. The only one that's
[4:20] deserving of it is President Donald Trump, and I'm going to give it to President Donald.
[4:30] Fine woman. But based on my record of peace, a record like no one ever has had,
[4:37] and I'm not saying this, I'm just saying how crooked the whole Nobel Prize deal is.
[4:43] No one else has ever come close to achieving what we in our country. I'm representing you,
[4:49] what the United States has achieved. I got back all of the hostages in Israel,
[4:55] including the final 28, both living and dead. And I had to work with Hamas to do it. Think of that.
[5:08] I had to work with Hamas. I got back all of the hostages, living and dead. And you know,
[5:14] the parents of dead children that were the children to them, the parents of the dead children,
[5:20] they knew they were dead. They wanted the body of their child every bit as much as the parents of
[5:28] the living children. And we got them all back. Nobody can believe it. Nobody thought it was possible.
[5:36] I removed the world's evil dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela. And I'm in the process of making
[5:48] Venezuela a very rich democracy. And we're taking out for ourselves, we deserve it,
[5:55] to the victor, belong the spoils, right? We're taking out billions and billions and billions of
[6:02] dollars a day. In fact, Chris Wright could have testified to that. He's in charge of energy.
[6:08] Likewise with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe,
[6:14] and probably a piece of the United States before we obliterated them.
[6:19] I'm also preventing on a constant basis a war between South Korea and North Korea,
[6:26] and Japan and North Korea, and China and Taiwan. They haven't fought. And numerous other hot spots
[6:34] which have not been involved in wars, only because of a gentleman known as President Donald
[6:40] J. Trump of the United States of America. And I'm responsible for having NATO countries increase
[6:51] spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defense, another thing that everybody
[7:00] said it was impossible. I got them to 2%. And my first day, I got them to 5%. They said it wasn't
[7:06] possible. They're spending their own money. We're not subsidizing them anymore. Can you believe that?
[7:16] And I have negotiated the release and secured the return of more than 900 political prisoners from
[7:24] multiple countries in Eastern Europe. And additionally, I brought back 196 hostages home from captivity from
[7:34] all over the world. And I did it without having a paid ransom unlike Biden and Obama that used to pay
[7:42] billions and billions of dollars to get a single person out of a prison. I paid nothing. And on top of
[7:53] it all, I have created a soon-to-be very prosperous Arctic. And I also, by the way, got Greenland. I hope
[8:01] you're happy about that. Remember, they all said, oh, he's never going to get it. No, we got Greenland.
[8:13] And for the right price. You know what we paid, right? Zero. Despite all of this and all of these
[8:24] unbelievable accomplishments, the Nobel Prize was given out today to a liberal person who works at the
[8:32] United Nations who nobody has ever heard of. I've never heard of the person. I know a lot of people. I've never heard
[8:39] of this particular person, but congratulations anyway. In all of the wars that I have settled,
[8:46] I never spoke to the United Nations. They were of no help to me. The United States of America, represented by
[8:53] me as your president, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn't. And this is an indelible stain
[9:05] on the country of Norway and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision.
[9:15] The Nobel Peace Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy
[9:26] and really enemies of civilization. And we will not forget, Norway, that you didn't give this prize.
[9:33] With the greatest record in history, not eight wars. We should have had eight Nobel Prizes for each war.
[9:43] But that you didn't give the Nobel Prize for peace to the United States of America is just another sign of
[9:53] how Norway and all these others are ripping off our country.