CNN puts Trump on the spot over whether he deserves peace prize amid 'threats to strike'

President Donald Trump, who has long said he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, said that he didn't need such awards after CNN asked him if he deserved one during his ongoing threats to strike Venezuela.

"You're expected to get the FIFA Peace Prize, Mr. President," CNN's Kaitlan Collins told Trump at a Kennedy Center event on Friday. "What would you say to people who say that prize might conflict with your pledge to strike Venezuela?"

"Well, I think the Peace Prize, I mean, I settled eight wars," Trump replied. "I don't know that I'm getting it. I haven't been officially notified. I've been hearing about a Peace Prize, and I'm here to represent our country in a different sense."

"I can tell you I did settle eight wars and we have a ninth coming, but in which nobody's ever done before, but I want to really save lives, I don't need prizes. I need to save lives, and we're saving a lot of lives. I've saved millions and millions of lives, and that's really what I want to do, and I also want to run a great country, and the United States right now is the hottest country anywhere in the world, and one year ago, we had a dead country, and now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world."