The president and his supporters cannot stop talking about the Nobel Peace Prize, but Trump denies that he wants it.
Benjamin Netanyahu nominates President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize
President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House.
Washington – He begged, and he pleaded. He is being cajoled and blackmailed.
But more than seven months after his term, President Donald Trump was unable to end two of the world’s most bloody ongoing conflicts.
On the one hand, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ignored the deadline after the deadline to end Russia’s war with Ukraine, has recently joined China’s authoritarian leadership, demonstrating massive power over the West.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing for a growing list of countries that say military attacks in Gaza are accompanied by hunger and support the Palestinian state.
In the middle, the president, who has promised to sleep in both conflicts, and the Nobel Peace Prize talks against the reality of the Gaza and the Ukrainian war.
As for his peaceful efforts, Trump says he just wants to stop the murder. He denied craving perhaps the most prestigious award in the world.
“You can’t put yourself in that position,” Trump told the daily caller on August 29th.
Despite Trump’s stagnation in Ukraine and Gaza, he has said many times that he deserves a prize to resolve small conflicts between his two terms as president. The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on October 10th in Oslo, Norway.
“They will never give me the Nobel Peace Prize,” Trump said at a February 4 meeting with Netanyahu in his oval office. “That’s a shame. I deserve it, but they never give it to me.”
Norwegian cold call?
In August, Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv reported that Norwegian financial finalist Jens Stoltenberg received an unscheduled call from Trump to discuss tariffs and the Nobel Prize.
Former Prime Minister Stortenberg told Reuters that the call was to discuss tariffs and economic cooperation. “I won’t go into further detail about what the conversation is,” he added. (The five Norwegian Nobel Committees who receive the Nobel Peace Prize each year are appointed by Norwegian Parliament.)
The Nobel pinning was ridiculed by some of Trump’s opponents.
“Trump is pleading with foreign leaders to put him for the Nobel Prize. Have you ever done something so pathetic to us? Does it sound like someone firing with every cylinder?” Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said in a September 2nd post on X.
Peacemaker playing cards
Trump says he deserves credit to end the Seven Wars. The White House says it counts conflicts that would have erupted if he hadn’t intervened.
He listed halts in combat between Israel and Iran. This ended after the US bombed Iran’s nuclear land. and an agreement between Thailand and Cambodia, Rwanda, Congo, India, Pakistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, Serbia and Kusobo.
“The president of history has never done anything more to advance the cause of peace,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told reporters on August 29, when he raised Trump’s Nobel nomination in response to questions about Putin’s faith.
Foreign policy experts say some of the White House examples do not qualify as war. The Serbia-Kosovo deal is an economic normalization agreement from Trump’s first term.
Trump’s role in halting cross-border violence between India and Pakistan is being contested by New Delhi. Still, Islamabad nominated him for the Nobel Prize in what he called the “stellar politician.” Leaders from at least four countries, including Netanyahu, say they will place Trump for the award.
Rep. Claudia Tenney, a Republican from New York, has nominated Trump twice for the Nobel Prize between several Arab countries and Israel in 2020 in Abraham Accord.
Nobel’s Dream And disappointment
Trump has been disgusted of not winning the ultimate recognition to stop the conflict.
“No, no matter what I do, like Russia/Ukraine or Israel/Iran, people know, no matter what those outcomes are. That’s important to me!” he said in a post on June 20th about the True Society.
In his Peace Prize speech, he also moved to change the name of the US Department of Defense to the Department of War.
In the footsteps of Barack Obama?
Only four US presidents and former presidents received the award: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama.
Carter won 20 years after taking office in 2002. Obama’s 2009 awards are just nine months after his presidency.
“He did more to win the Nobel Peace Prize than he did when Barack Obama got it, so I think it’s probably frustrating for him,” said Leslie Shedd, a former senior adviser to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who is now a non-resident of Atlantic Council.
John Alterman, a former State Department official and current Middle Eastern expert, is an expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), who said many past winners had been engaged in peace negotiations for years before they won the award.
“It’s partly about timing. It’s partly about situations. It’s partly about relationships,” he said. “Not so, you just came up with the perfect formula and we were done.”
There is no “Subaku” award
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who lost the 2016 Trump election, said she would personally nominate him if she could end the Ukrainian war without giving away territory to Russia in August.
“However, peace built on Russian terms is unlikely to win the Nobel Peace Prize for Trump. One person has not won the award for surrender,” wrote diplomatic relations president Michael Fromman in a recent column.
After an Alaska Summit with Putin in August, Trump was caught up in a hot microphone telling French President Emmanuel Macron that he would like to make a deal for me.
However, since then, Putin has said that when he comes to Moscow he will only meet with Ukrainian President Voldymir Zelensky. (Zelensky replied that if Putin didn’t want to meet, invite him to Moscow is a surefire way to do so.)
Touting a “very good relationship” with Putin, Trump thought on September 3 that he thought it was “much easier” to resolve the war.
Is Trump “too enthusiastic”?
Alterman, a CSIS analyst, said that making a deal “seems too enthusiastic or too urgent” could be a “tool used against you, rather than leveraging your favor” in negotiations.
In the case of Netanyahu, who rejected calls from Trump and other world leaders, he stopped his campaign to eradicate Hamas amid the destruction of Gaza and the deaths of more than 60,000 Palestinians, Alterman said Netanyahu is watching the fight for Israeli survival.
“For many Israelis, they said on October 7th they intensified that there was no cure for Palestinian hostility,” Alterman said.
In March, Trump gave Hamas an ultimatum, saying “paying hell” and “for you” if the hostages were not released.
He appears to have taken him to social media on September 3rd, and encouraged the Israeli government to “return it to Hamas immediately.”
“What a bloody confusion.”
However, after Trump pointed out that it was Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, he said it was time for the war to begin and Netanyahu to close his operation.
“It’s so bad that it gets, and no one can forget it,” Trump said on Oct. 7. “That being said, we have to get through it.”
In response to the ongoing war, leaders from Australia, Britain, France, Canada and Belgium announced plans to formally recognize the Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in New York, which Trump is scheduled to deal with, on September 23.
When Putin blew further Trump’s deadline, the president lamented that he was “disappointed” on September 2nd, saying they would speak quickly.
“Sometimes you never know in war,” Trump said the next day. “War is complicated, dangerous, and how confused. What a bloody mess.”
