No peace: Trump’s smouldering Nobel obsession

Donald Trump has made no secret of the fact that he is obsessed with winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

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But so far the award has eluded him throughout his two US presidencies.

Trump’s push for the prize, whose 2025 winner will be named on Friday, is fuelled by a potent mix of a desire for prestige and a long rivalry with former president Barack Obama.

Sometimes Trump, who is often better known for his divisive rhetoric, anti-migration drive and embrace of foreign authoritarians, has appeared to acknowledge that he is an unlikely candidate. "Will you get the Nobel Prize? Absolutely not. They’ll give it to some guy that didn’t do a damn thing," Trump said during a speech to hundreds of the US military’s top officers in September.

Butin the same breath Trump revealed his true feelings.

"It'd be a big insult to our country, I will tell you that. I don’t want it, I want the country to get it. It should get it because there’s never been anything like it," he said at the same gathering.

in Amman, Jordan, Yaghi did not start out in ideal conditions to pursue an academic career.

“T grew up in a very humble home. And, you know, we were a dozen of us in one small room, sharing it with the cattle that we used to raise,” he said.

He said he thought his father had only finished sixth grade and that his mother could neither read nor write. For Yaghi, school provided a refuge, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in its statement.