President Donald Trump's former national security advisor, John Bolton, warned in a new interview on Wednesday that the president will likely get bored with the multiple peace processes he's trying to juggle unless he wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Trump administration is currently trying to negotiate peace in two multi-year wars, one between Israel and Hamas in the Middle East and the other between Russia and Ukraine. Bolton said during an interview with Times Radio on Wednesday that Trump is likely to "find something else to do" unless achieving peace in at least one of these conflicts earns him a Nobel Prize.
"Well, as Simon & Garfunkel once said in one of their famous songs, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest," Bolton said. "And Trump wants to hear that his friend Vladimir Putin is going to do a deal with him."
"I think we've seen the same thing in connection with the Gaza peace process, he continued. "It's repeating in Ukraine. I don't think this is going to move Trump too much one way or the other. I think he's going to turn his attention to something else, like making the biggest trade deal in history with China, which is how he sees it."
"He's tried for nine months on Ukraine, and he's been frustrated at every turn," Bolton added. "In a world where there are only winners and losers, and Trump is only a winner, this is not going to be a winner. So he's going to find something else to do."
