After Alaska talks with Putin, Trump reacts to Hillary Clinton’s Nobel Prize nomination remarks

US President Donald Trump reacted to his former rival Hillary Clinton’s remarks about nominating him for a Nobel Prize on Friday (August 15, 2025) and termed her comments “very nice.” “I don’t want to be involved in such stuff,” he also stated, according to CNN. The development comes hours after Clinton, once a rival of Trump, said that she would personally nominate him for the prize if he were the “architect” of ending Russia’s war on Ukraine, but only if he could do so without Ukraine having to cede territory to Russia.

While reacting to the remarks made by the former secretary of state, Trump did maintain he is not campaigning for the award, CNN reported. The reaction from the US president came after he held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, where he reportedly failed to secure an agreement from Putin on Friday to end Russia's war in Ukraine, even after rolling out the red carpet for the man who started it.

“There's no deal until there's a deal,” the U.S. president said after Putin claimed they had hammered out an “understanding” on Ukraine and warned Europe not to “torpedo the nascent progress Trump said he would call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders to brief them on the talks. He had pledged confidently to bring about an end to the war on his first day back in the White House.

The U.S. president had offered Putin both a carrot and a stick, issuing threats of punishing economic sanctions on Russia while also extending a warm welcome at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, but he appeared to walk away without any concrete progress on ending the war in Ukraine, now in its fourth year.

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In a sign that the conversations did not yield Trump's preferred result, the two leaders ended what was supposed to be a joint news conference without taking questions from reporters. In a subsequent interview with Fox News Channel before leaving Alaska, Trump insisted that the onus going forward might be somehow on Zelenskyy “to get it done,” but said there would also be some involvement from European nations. That was notable since Zelenskyy was excluded from Trump and Putin's meeting.

Putin said Russia and the United States should “turn the page and go back to cooperation.” He praised Trump as someone who “has a clear idea of what he wants to achieve and sincerely cares about the prosperity of his country, and at the same time shows understanding that Russia has its national interests.” “I expect that today's agreements will become a reference point not only for solving the Ukrainian problem, but will also mark the beginning of the restoration of businesslike, pragmatic relations between Russia and the U.S.,” Putin was quoted by news agency AP as saying.

The Russian president, at a press briefing following talks with Trump, stated that the Ukraine war would have never happened if Donald Trump had been the US President instead of Joe Biden in early 2022. Putin’s remark echoed a claim Trump has made several times, blaming his predecessor, Biden, for the war.

Despite not reaching any breakthrough, Trump ended his remarks by thanking Putin and saying, “We'll speak to you very soon and probably see you again very soon.” When Putin smiled and offered, “next time in Moscow,” Trump said, “that's an interesting one,” and said he might face criticism, but “I could see it possibly happening.”

When Trump and Putin arrived in Alaska, they greeted each other with a warm handshake, chatting almost like old friends, and gripped hands for an extended period on a red carpet rolled out at the military base.