Donald Trump’s supporters began rallying for him to win a Nobel Peace Prize—for his diplomatic work denuclearizing the Korean peninsula—as early as this April. But the president himself is pretty sure he’ll never get the award, because he has been down a similarly painful road like this before. When speaking to the New York Post about his odds, the president couldn’t help but cite his life’s bitterest loss: never winning an Emmy for his NBC program The Apprentice. Seriously.

“They’ll never give it to me,” Trump said of the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, before immediately shifting to what really bothers him: “We should have gotten the Emmy for The Apprentice, you know? I had the No. 1 show, The Apprentice.”

In its first two seasons, The Apprentice lost the Emmy for outstanding reality competition to The Amazing Race. And despite having, perhaps, a few more important things to worry about than a decade-plus-old TV Academy loss, it appears this is a grudge the president continues to nurse. “So they’re saying he’s done a magnificent job, this show has gone to the top of the heap . . . and the winner is, and I stood up . . . and they said Amazing Race and I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding?’” Trump continued. “That show was terrible. Amazing Race got it because Amazing Race was the establishment.”

During his time hosting The Apprentice, which premiered in 2004, Trump famously touted his show’s ratings even when its viewership had dropped well below first place. Even when corrected about that “No. 1” brag in a room full of TV reporters, he simply deflected the correction: “That’s just what I had heard.”

In case anyone was wondering, by the way, Trump also said he’s officially done with the program—one NBC booted him after Trump made racist comments about immigrants while announcing his presidential candidacy in 2015. In Trump’s mind, however, the blame rests firmly—surprise, surprise!—with Arnold Schwarzenegger, who took over The Celebrity Apprentice for one season before quitting in the face of lackluster ratings and presidential bullying. “Arnold Schwarzenegger blew it,” Trump said. “Big movie star. It was dead in two nights. I had it for 14 seasons.”

Trump is, of course, ignoring his own role in chasing away viewers and sponsors, which seems par for the course. Who, exactly, he’ll blame after losing out on the Nobel Peace Prize remains to be seen.

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