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Trump Demands Nobel Peace Prize, Cites Iran Deal, Teen Warns

7/5/2026

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President Donald Trump demanded a Nobel Peace Prize during his Fourth of July speech at Mount Rushmore.
He said the United States tops Olympic medals and Nobel Prizes yet lacks a peace prize, citing a memorandum of understanding with Iran signed at the Palace of Versailles.
A Western Sahara teenager warned that 2025 U.S. funding cuts left mothers dying without medicine, highlighting the human cost of his peace rhetoric.

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President Donald Trump demanded a Nobel Peace Prize during his Fourth of July speech at Mount Rushmore.
He said the United States tops Olympic medals and Nobel Prizes yet lacks a peace prize, citing a memorandum of understanding with Iran signed at the Palace of Versailles.
A Western Sahara teenager warned that 2025 U.S. funding cuts left mothers dying without medicine, highlighting the human cost of his peace rhetoric.