After years of scathing attacks and famously calling his supporters a “basket of deplorables”, Hillary Clinton suddenly became President Donald Trump’s biggest cheerleader on Friday.
In a shocking admission, Clinton told the “Raging Moderates” podcast that she would willingly nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize if he could bring an end to the war in Ukraine without allowing President Vladimir Putin to take territory from its neighbor.
If Donald Trump negotiates an end to Putin's war on Ukraine without Ukraine having to cede territory, I'll nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize myself. https://t.co/SYXKhhLqkS
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 15, 2025
“Honestly, if he could bring about the end to this terrible war, if he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it didn’t concede its territory to the aggressor, could really stand up to Putin — something we haven’t seen, but maybe this is the opportunity — if President Trump were the architect of that, I’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize,” Clinton told podcast interviewer Jessica Tarlov in an interview released today.
“Because my goal here is to not allow capitulation to Putin,” she added.
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Clinton’s shocking olive branch comes as Trump was already en route to Alaska for the landmark talks with Putin, where he hopes to bring about an end to the three-year conflict in Ukraine.
Clinton’s surprising remarks also comes after years of heated attacks directed at President Trump since she lost to him in the 2016 presidential election.
While campaigning during election, Clinton famously called his supporters a “basket of deplorables” — and said he was “not just unprepared – he’s temperamentally unfit” to be president.
Clinton also claimed Trump praised and admired Putin — well before the Russian president invaded Ukraine under former President Joe Biden’s administration.
“He praises dictators like Vladimir Putin and picks fights with our friends,” she said on one occasion.
Clinton also claimed Trump was too “thin-skinned” to have access to nuclear codes.
In February this year she continued her attacks, calling his administration “dumb.”
“Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Mr. Trump’s America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless,” Clinton wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times.
Last October, she said he was “more unhinged, [and] more unstable” now than he was when she lost the 2016 presidential election.
Fast forward to today, Trump has said he is confident Putin wants to make a deal to end the war, putting the chance of failure at just 25%.