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President Donald Trump is waiting to hear if his dream will come true this week - whether his nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize becomes a reality.
He doesn’t have much longer to hold on - the announcement will be made on Friday.
His public campaign for the accolade started off with a joke in 2018: "Everyone thinks so but I would never say it,” he said of a possible nomination. “The prize I want is victory for the world.”
Five years on, his stance had changed to “I deserve it, but they will never give it to me” when asked about it in February this year after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “I should have gotten it four or five times” when quizzed in June.
But, despite polling suggesting otherwise, the former Apprentice star is a
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