Trump doesn’t know if Iran war will nab him elusive Nobel Peace Prize

But in a brief phone call with the Washington Examiner on Thursday morning, Trump claimed to have “no idea” if Operation Epic Fury will “get him over the finish line” with committee members.

“I don’t know,” he told the Washington Examiner flatly. “I’m not interested in it.”

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“No, I don’t talk about the Nobel Prize,” the president added when asked if the subject had been broached during any of the conversations he has had with foreign leaders since last Saturday.

Trump’s Thursday comments come as the United States is investigating a Tomahawk missile strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran, that killed some 175 school-aged girls on Feb. 28, the first day of the war.

The president himself has said he will accept the outcomes of the administration’s investigation into the strike, which is widely believed to have been launched by the U.S.

However, Trump has also suggested Iran itself may have been responsible for the strike. He told reporters in Doral, Florida, on Monday that Tehran might have found a way to obtain Tomahawk missiles, despite only three countries besides the U.S — Australia, the United Kingdom, and Japan — having them in their arsenals.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that preliminary findings in the Pentagon investigation have determined that the U.S. is to blame for the strike.

The president and other senior administration officials have made the case that Epic Fury will keep Americans safe and lead to stability in the Middle East. One of the operation’s stated goals is to prevent Iran from projecting power beyond its borders by backing terrorist groups and militias.

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“For 47 years, the Iranian regime has actively and intentionally facilitated the killing of Americans while chanting ‘death to America’ and funding other bloodthirsty terrorists seeking to destroy the United States and all of Western Civilization,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote in a statement last week.

“Prior American leaders were too weak and cowardly to do anything about it,” she added. “Now, President Donald J. Trump is correcting decades of cowardice and holding those responsible for the deaths of Americans accountable. Their brutal attacks and threats will finally end under President Trump. America will win — the terrorists will be defeated.”

Furthermore, the administration has argued that Epic Fury will, once the fighting ceases, drive down both domestic and global energy prices to below prewar levels.

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The Washington Examiner also sought to pick the president’s brain on his plans for Cuba, which Trump has stated is next on his list once he winds down operations in Iran.

The Washington Examiner specifically asked if military operations on the Caribbean island might induce further conflict with drug cartels and other anti-American actors in Latin America, to which the president responded simply, “That’s not going to happen.”