Reporter Asks Trump If Nobel Prize Date Is ‘Circled On Your Calendar?’

Gray Television White House correspondent Jon Decker asked President Donald Trump if he has the Nobel Prize announcement date “circled on your calendar” at an event announcing a U.S.-brokered peace agreement.

The peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan was announced and signed at an event in the State Dining Room of the White House with Trump, Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, and Armenia Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

During the event, both leaders suggested Trump be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and vowed to help make it happen.

“I think President Trump deserved to have Nobel Peace Prize. And we will defend that. And we will promote — we will promote for that. And that’s obvious,” Pashinyan said when asked about the honor for Trump.

“So maybe we agree with Prime Minister Pashinyan to send a joint appeal to Nobel Committee to award President Trump with the Nobel Peace Prize,” Aliyev said, and went on to add “Who, if not President Trump, deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?”

Decker later asked Trump if he’s looking forward to winning:

JON DECKER: The Norwegian Nobel Committee will make their announcement as it relates to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on October the 10th. Friday, October the 10th. Is that date circled on your calendar, Mr. President?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I can’t say. I mean, a lot of people say no, no matter what I did because, you know, I’m of a certain persuasion. No matter what I do, they won’t give it up. And I’m not politicking for it. I have a lot of people that are I know, I mean, I read the same things as you do, but, it would be a great honor, certainly, but I would never politic. I’m not doing it for that. I’m doing it because of I really number one, I want to save lives.

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