Trump says he ‘may have to start liking’ Hillary Clinton after she reveals she would recommend him for a Nobel Peace Prize if he ends the Russia-Ukraine war

President Donald Trump graciously received the endorsement of Hillary Clinton, his 2016 Democratic presidential opponent and former Secretary of State, for a Nobel Peace Prize, Newsmax reported. Clinton said she would put forth his name if he met certain conditions in convincing Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war with Ukraine.

Trump met with Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday to begin talks about a possible peace deal. Ahead of that meeting, Trump had received several endorsements for the prestigious prize, including from Clinton. The former first lady said during a Raging Moderates podcast that she would recommend Trump if he secures an abrupt end to the war.

The president was asked about it while boarding Air Force One. “That was very nice. I might have to start liking her again,” Trump said of Clinton.

.@BretBaier: Hillary Clinton says if you can get a peace deal, she’ll nominate you for the Nobel Peace Prize…@POTUS: “I may have to start liking her again.” 😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/B91ZXJGqfc

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 15, 2025

Her Conditions

Although it was nice for Clinton to acknowledge Trump’s diplomatic prowess, she did so with specific conditions. Clinton said that if Trump “could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor, had to, in a way, validate Putin’s vision of greater Russia, but instead could really stand up to Putin, something we haven’t seen, but maybe this is the opportunity,” she stipulated.

“To make it clear that there must be a ceasefire. There will be no exchange of territory. And that, over a period of time, Putin should be actually withdrawing from the territory he’s seized in order to demonstrate his good-faith efforts, let us say, not to threaten European security,” Clinton went on.

“If we could pull that off, if President Trump were the architect of that, I’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize, because my goal here is to not allow capitulation to Putin, aided and abetted by the United States. I think that’s a terrible, terrible precedent,” she added.

However, Clinton’s conditions are hopelessly naive, as there is no scenario where Putin is going to give up the gains he made in the war so far. While some have declared the Alaska meeting a win for Putin following the meeting, Trump believes it has “set the table” for talks between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Trump also said that he would “walk away” from the table if the conditions were not favorable in such a meeting. While his naysayers celebrated the president’s failure, Trump pointed out that he has already succeeded in brokering peace in several nations, including defusing a conflict between Pakistan and India, which are both nuclear powers, that threatened to erupt.

Next Steps

The next step in the diplomatic effort will happen when Trump meets with Zelenskyy in Washington, D.C., on Monday to further hash out a peace deal between the two nations. It seems the president is optimistic about his prospects with the Ukrainian president and may bring Putin and Zelenskyy together if things go well.

“Our next meeting, we’ll have President Zelenskyy and President Putin and probably me. I would like to focus on doing our country, but you know, I get these interruptions,” Trump said.

“I have solved six wars in six months, if you think about it. That is from Pakistan to India; that was going to be a terrible one, planes being shot down. That was getting ready to flare, and then nuclear powers and so many others,” Trump pointed out.

It’s becoming clear through both of Trump’s presidential terms that there is a way for presidents to conduct business that stops wars rather than starting new ones. Trump is on his way to ending the war between Russia and Ukraine that only began because then-President Joe Biden was weak and Putin was opportunistic.

Things are going so well for Trump that even Hillary Clinton has to acknowledge that he is inching ever closer to becoming a great peacemaker of our time. This endorsement from Clinton may be something that previously seemed utterly impossible, but it’s well within reach as Trump continues to make the world a safer place by quelling one conflict at a time.