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Russian strongman Vladimir Putin tried to cozy up to President Trump — slamming the committee who has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to people who “did nothing for peace.”
Asked by reporters whether he thought Trump was unjustly passed over for the prestigious award that was handed out on Friday, Putin replied that he wasn’t the one who made that choice.
“There have been cases where the committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to people who have done nothing for peace,” the Russian dictator said in a stinging rebuke Friday in Tajikistan, where he was attending a summit of former Soviet nations.
“A person comes, good or bad, and in a month, in two months, boom. For what? He didn’t do anything at all. In my view, these decisions have done enormous damage to the prestige of this prize.”
The Russian dictator appeared to try to score points with his US counterpart by also taking a jab at former President Obama, who famously received the Nobel Prize just nine months into his presidency.
Trump has often lambasted his presidential rival saying he “didn’t even know what he got it for” and that Obama “got the prize for doing nothing.”
Putin went on to commend Trump for brokering the Gaza cease-fire.
“He’s really doing a lot to resolve such complex crises that have lasted for years and even decades,” he said.
Putin added that if the Gaza deal is carried out, it would be a “historic” achievement.
Trump, who has has grown increasingly frustrated with Putin recently amid stalled efforts to end the war in Ukraine, took to his Truth Social network on Friday, posting a video of Putin’s comments and writing “Thank you to President Putin!”
He had been hoping to win the prestigious prize for brokering an orchestrating a long-coveted agreement between Israel and Hamas after more than two years of deadly conflict in Gaza.
The five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee internally made its decision on Monday — two days before the peace deal was struck — to bestow the award on Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
