Donald Trump used a White House dinner for Benjamin Netanyahu to toast the “tremendous success” of their relationship despite the lack of tangible progress on permanent peace deals with Iran and Hamas.
The Israeli prime minister praised Trump for “forging peace, as we speak, in one country, in one region after the other”. Netanyahu reached across the table in the Blue Room to hand Trump a letter he wrote to the Nobel Peace Prize committee proposing the US president for the award — an accolade the president covets.
“It’s nominating you for the Peace Prize, which is well deserved, and you should get it,” Netanyahu told Trump. “It’s a great honour,” Trump replied.