Did Barack Obama Deserve the Nobel Prize?
President Obama, at the time, did not feel he deserved the prize but was in an awkward situation. In the end, he had no choice but to accept it.
One thing the prize did ultimately end up doing, is driving Trump crazy. We all know that Trump has no concept of diplomacy, that he has allowed the Diplomatic corp to disintegrate through either not filling needed positions, driving people out, or bring people in who were far from qualified.
Yet even he realized that, if he ever wanted to prove himself better than Obama, he had to also win the Nobel Prize, and to do that, he had to do something Peaceful.
Trump probably felt that it would be very easy to negotiate a truce between the Taliban and the Afghanistan government, dismissing the fact that, if it had been that easy, the war woudl have ended years and years ago.
So, with an ignorance of diplomacy, a staff who was equally ignorant, a refusal to listen to anyone who does know about teh situation there, and his usual 'I can do anything, I aam the chosen one' attitude, Trump sent his people to dive right in.
The negotiations weren't going well, so trump had the bright idea to bring everyone to Camp David, in early September, around the time of the 9/11 memorial day.
He forgot the part that
a. It was 9/11
b. The Taliban were involved in that
c. The Negotiations weren't going well
d. The Taliban have no interest in photo ops with the US President.