President Trump said he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize for resolving various conflicts before the 2025 winner was announced.
How is the Nobel Peace Prize decided?
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winners will be announced on October 10, with one winner out of 338 nominees. Let’s take a look at how the award works here. Alice Rizzo has more.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s dream of becoming a Nobel Prize winner did not come true this year.
The Norwegian committee that decides the winners of the prestigious award awarded Trump the coveted peace prize in hopes that he would win for normalizing relations with Israel and some Middle Eastern countries.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that it has awarded the prize to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Colina Machado. The award recognizes efforts to promote democratic rights and achieve democratic transition in their countries.
During his first term, President Trump brokered a historic agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates that formalized bilateral relations. Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan signed the agreement, and President Trump had hoped to extend it to other countries.
The U.S. president was also nominated for the Peace Prize this year for various agreements he signed to resolve crises and conflicts, but the nominations were submitted past the committee’s Jan. 31 deadline for Cambodia and Pakistan.
The committee’s decision not to award Trump the award was not surprising. Earlier this year, he thought he would “never” win the prestigious award, which has only been given to four U.S. presidents.
President Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office on February 4 and said, “They will never give me the Nobel Peace Prize.” “It’s a shame. I deserve what I deserve and they will never give it to me.”
Asked by reporters during a roundtable discussion whether he thought he would receive the award on October 8, President Trump replied, “I don’t know.”
“Maybe they’ll find a reason not to give in to me, and they will,” said Trump, who has resolved seven conflicts during his presidency and said he is working toward ending the war in Gaza.
Previous recipients of the prestigious award include Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama.
On October 9, at a meeting in the Oval Office the night before the memorial service, President Trump angrily said, “Obama received an award for doing nothing.”
The Nobel Committee did not reveal the names of the candidates who were not selected, but prior to the announcement, it had announced that there were 338 candidates, of which 244 were individuals and the remaining 94 were organizations.
New York State Representative Claudia Tenney, a Republican, has publicly announced that she nominated Trump for the Nobel Prize for his work on the Abraham Accords. Prime Minister Netanyahu also said during a visit to the White House in July that he would nominate Trump for a role in the deal.
President Trump wants to expand the agreement to include Saudi Arabia.
