Donald Trump's administration asked Japan's prime minister Shinzō Abe to nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize after he and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un met for a historic summit, according to a Japanese newspaper.
Trump boasted Friday during a White House Rose Garden press event that Abe had handed him 'the most beautiful copy' of a five-page letter about the nomination but concluded 'I'll probably never get it.'
The request came during the fall, months after the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore on June 12, according to the newspaper Asahi Shimbun.
Abe ultimately submitted Trump's name, citing his efforts to defuse decades-long tensions on the Korean peninsula.
'He said, "I have nominated you, respectfully, on behalf of Japan. I am asking them to give you the Nobel Peace Prize",' Trump told reporters on Friday. 'I said thank you.'
'Many other people feel that way, too. I'll probably never get it. That's okay,' he said.
President Donald Trump claimed Friday that his Japanese counterpart nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize
A Japanese newspaper now reports that someone in Trump's administration asked Prime Minister Shinzō Abe to submit the president's name to the Nobel committee
It's unclear how common it is for governments to lobby each others' leaders for award endorsements.
The Japanese Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump has made strides in opening talks with North Korea, saying consistently that the hermit kingdom's belligerence should have been countered by his predecessors.
Last year's meeting was the first between a sitting American president and a North Korean head of state.
A spokesman for Japan's Foreign Ministry in Tokyo told Reuters that it was aware of Trump's remarks but 'would refrain from commenting on the interaction between the two leaders.'
The Nobel Foundation's website says a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria, which includes current heads of states.
Under the foundation's rules, names and other information about unsuccessful nominations cannot be disclosed for 50 years.
But that wall of silence has been ineffective in at least one recent instance.
Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, pictured last year during their first summit in Singapore, will meet for a second time later this month; in his Nobel nomination, Abe cited the president's efforts to bring stability to the Korean peninsula amid nuclear saber-rattling
Former President Barack Obama posed with his Nobel Peace Prize on Dec. 10, 2009, less than a year into his presidency; a Nobel official later said the committee regretted giving him the prestigious award
The former non-voting secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize committee said in 2015 that members regretted giving the prestigious award to former president Barack Obama in 2009, less than a year into his first term.
Geir Lundestad told the Associated Press that the committee had hoped the prize would strengthen Obama, but instead it was met with ridicule since he hadn't yet had a significant impact on global affairs.
'No Nobel Peace Prize ever elicited more attention than the 2009 prize to Barack Obama,' Lundestad wrote in his memoir.
'Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake. In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for.'
Trump noted on Friday that 'they gave it to Obama.'
'He didn't even know what he got it for. He was there for about 15 seconds and he got the Nobel Prize. He said, "Oh, what did I get it for?"'
The surprising anecdote came as he hailed Pyongyang's 'tremendous' economic potential and his 'great relationship' with Kim ahead of a second scheduled summit between the two leaders late next week.
Trump also took a second dig at Barack Obama, suggesting his predecessor had been close to going to war with the nuclear-armed state.
Recalling a conversation he had with Obama shortly before his inauguration, Trump said: 'I don't want to speak for him but I believe he would have gone to war with North Korea.'
'I think he was ready to go to war, he told me he was so close to starting a big war with North Korea. Where are we now? No missiles, no rockets, no nuclear testing.'
'We've learned a lot. But much more importantly than all of it – much more important, much, much more important than that – is we have a great relationship. I have a very good relationship with Kim Jong-un. And I've done a job.'
Trump also ran through some of the highlights of the fiery rhetoric he and Kim exchanged in 2017 when tensions between the two countries were skyrocketing.
'It was a very tough dialogue at the beginning: "fire and fury," "total annihilation," "my button is bigger than yours",' he recalled.
'People said "Trump is crazy." And you know what it ended up being? A very good relationship. I like him a lot and he likes me a lot. Nobody else would have done that. The Obama administration couldn't have done it.'
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