John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser: ‘What he wants is the Nobel Peace Prize’

Few people know the inside of U.S. Republican administrations as well as John Bolton, who has worked on foreign policy in every one of them since the days of Ronald Reagan. Under George W. Bush, he served as ambassador to the UN, and in Donald Trump’s first term, he served as National Security Adviser for 18 months—“a record for that administration,” he recalls with a laugh. The relationship didn’t end well: Bolton, like many other senior officials in that administration, left before getting ousted. In 2020 he published The Room Where It Happened, about his time in the White House during that period, a move that got him on Trump’s blacklist. The former senior official believes it’s quite possible that the U.S. president will end up withdrawing permanently from the peace negotiations over Ukraine to focus on some other global hotspot where he expects quicker results. “What he wants is the Nobel Peace Prize” no matter what, Bolton ventures.

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