Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) told President Trump to “spare us the pity party” Wednesday after video surfaced of him declaring on Air Force One that he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize more than anyone in history — comments she said were out of touch with a week in which an ICE agent shot and killed a Houston father of three, children remained locked in immigration detention centers, and the Iran war he promised to end continued into its 132nd day.
“This self-obsessed president keeps whining about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, but under his administration, a father was just killed by ICE, children are still locked away in detention centers, and this war he promised he’d end? It’s still going,” Crockett wrote on X. “Spare us the pity party. We deserve better.”
Trump made the Nobel remarks aboard Air Force One on his way back from the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, after a day in which he declared the Iran ceasefire “over,” threatened to reimpose a naval blockade and ordered additional strikes. “I would say I should have won that award more than anybody that ever received the Nobel Peace Prize,” Trump told reporters, according to the official White House video of the gaggle. “Nobody settled wars. I settled eight of them.”
The Houston Father ICE Killed
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston’s East End neighborhood on July 7 while on his way to a construction site with a crew of workers. ICE said agents attempted a traffic stop and that Salgado Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle, refused verbal commands and attempted to run over an officer, prompting the officer to fire in self-defense, according to a statement from ICE. The ICE officers involved were not wearing body cameras — a rollout DHS confirmed had been stalled by government shutdowns, with full deployment expected within 60 days.
The Harris County District Attorney’s Office opened its own independent investigation. The Mexican government announced plans to initiate legal and civil actions to protect the human rights of Mexicans in the United States, citing Salgado Araujo’s death and those of other Mexican nationals in immigration custody, according to a statement from Mexico’s Secretariat of Foreign Affairs. Salgado Araujo had lived in the United States for nearly 35 years and was in the process of applying for a work permit, according to his son Ronaldo Salgado, who spoke at a public news conference Wednesday.
Rep. Sylvia Garcia, whose district includes the area of the shooting, and Rep. Christian Menefee both called for a full and transparent investigation. “They make serious allegations against Lorenzo, but there are only allegations,” Garcia said at the news conference. “We need a full investigation and a transparent investigation.” Menefee said in an official statement that “ICE’s actions across the country have caused them to lose the faith and confidence of communities.”
Children Still Locked in Detention
The child detention figures Crockett referenced have surged under the second Trump administration. As of September 2025, nearly 60,000 immigrants were held in ICE detention — a 50 percent increase from the 39,000 held at the end of the Biden administration — according to KFF’s health policy analysis. The Trump administration has moved to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement, which sets minimum standards for the treatment of immigrant children in federal custody, though a federal court upheld the settlement, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on July 1, which included an unprecedented $45 billion for building new immigration detention facilities, according to the White House’s official OBBB page. Families have alleged in federal court filings food contaminated with worms and mold, limited access to clean drinking water and inadequate medical care at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas — the country’s main family detention facility. The Trump administration has shut down the DHS Immigration Detention Ombudsman office that previously conducted oversight on detention conditions, according to KFF.
The War Trump Promised to End
During his 2024 campaign, Trump repeatedly promised to end wars quickly upon taking office. When Operation Epic Fury began on February 28, the White House described it as a decisive military campaign that destroyed more than 85 percent of Iran’s defense industrial base. A ceasefire was announced April 8 and extended multiple times. Trump signed the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding on June 17, which the White House called a landmark America First agreement that prevented Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
The ceasefire collapsed July 8 when Iran attacked three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM confirmed a second round of retaliatory strikes hitting approximately 90 Iranian military targets. Trump declared the ceasefire “over” at a NATO press conference. As of July 9 — the war’s 132nd day — CENTCOM was conducting additional strikes and Iran was threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz again. The conflict has killed 13 U.S. service members and wounded 290 more, according to Rep. Jason Crow’s official press release on Iran war funding legislation.
The Nobel Prize Remarks
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in October 2025 to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who dedicated her award to Trump. The Nobel committee clarified that the honor is not transferable. Trump has since declined to support Machado as Venezuela’s interim leader and backed Nicolás Maduro’s vice president Delcy Rodriguez instead, according to a State Department briefing on Venezuela.
In his Air Force One remarks, Trump also initially referred to Machado as “him” before being corrected — one of multiple verbal errors during the day in Ankara that drew widespread criticism, including calling Iran the “Islamic Republic of Japan” and referring to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy as “President Putin,” both of which were confirmed in the official White House video. Crockett, who represents a Texas congressional district that includes parts of Dallas, used her post to connect Trump’s Nobel boasting directly to the week’s realities — a war that resumed, a father who was killed and children who remained detained.