Did Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominate U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize? Trump seems to think so.

The U.S. leader said Friday in a wide-ranging speech from the Rose Garden of the White House that Abe had sent a "most beautiful" "five-page letter" to the Nobel committee to nominate him for the prize for his work to denuclearize North Korea.

"Prime Minister Abe of Japan gave me the most beautiful copy of a letter that he sent to the people who give out a thing called the Nobel Prize," Trump said. "He said, 'I have nominated you, respectfully on behalf of Japan, I am asking them to give you the Nobel Peace Prize.' "