Speaking independently of each other, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla both said this week that President Donald Trump deserved a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed, the program that distributed COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. and globally in 2020. 

“President Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed,” Cassidy said in a Wednesday statement on X.

“Operation Warp Speed restored consumer confidence, saved over $1 trillion in health care costs due to reductions in serious illness and avoidance of hospitalizations, and rapidly scaled up domestic production,” Bourla wrote a few hours earlier.

“This American leadership also delivered a new platform that may drive significant innovation in cancer research. Such an accomplishment would typically be worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, given its significant impact,” he added.

Good or bad?

Bourla credited Trump with saving 14 million people's lives around the world with Operation Warp Speed, which involved a partnership between the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

Now that some time has passed, however, and complications of the vaccines have come to light, the current Trump administration is distancing itself from the vaccines.

Now, Trump wants drug companies to "justify" the success of their COVID drugs.

“It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree!” the president said in a Labor Day post on Truth Social.

He'd like one

Trump has mentioned several times that he thinks he deserves a Nobel Prize, though not for the same reason Bourla and Cassidy mentioned.

Pakistan said he should get one for defusing tensions between it and India in May 2025, while House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he should get one for the crime crackdown in Washington, D.C. in recent weeks.

Given the proclivities of the Nobel Committee, however, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to bestow an award on Trump.

Of course, Democrats would be beside themselves if Trump got a Nobel Prize, which is probably part of the reason he wants one so much.

He surely doesn't need the $1.1 million dollars that comes with the prize.

Instead, it's all about the honor and recognition that he did something that changed the world for the better, instead of more allegations that he's harming it.