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The Nobel Peace Prize Trump Won’t Get — and Why It Matters
PJ Media ^ | 08/11/2025 | Jamie Wilson

Posted on 08/11/2025 9:45:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

By any reasonable historical measure, Donald Trump should be a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize.

In his first term, he brokered the Abraham Accords — a cascade of normalization agreements between Israel and multiple Arab nations that foreign policy elites had long claimed were impossible. In his second term, the pace has been even more remarkable: Armenia-Azerbaijan, Rwanda-DR Congo, Israel-Iran, Cambodia-Thailand, and India-Pakistan ceasefires or peace frameworks — some signed within months of his return to office, spanning three continents.

Trump has now received at least a dozen Nobel Peace Prize nominations in his lifetime, putting him squarely in the range of many past laureates.

In another era, that record would have made his selection almost inevitable. Today, it almost guarantees he will be passed over.

Why Trump would have been a lock in a different era

Past Nobel Peace Prizes have gone to leaders who, like Trump, combined force of personality with results that altered the political map. Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the 1906 prize for mediating the Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War. Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin shared the 1978 prize for the Camp David Accords — a peace between Egypt and Israel that has lasted to this day. Norman Borlaug’s agricultural revolution earned him the 1970 prize for feeding hundreds of millions.

By those standards, Trump’s record is not only competitive — it’s in some ways superior, with more deals concluded in less time and across a wider geographic range.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bloggers; nobel; peaceprize; trump
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1 posted on 08/11/2025 9:45:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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CONSIDER:

Most political leaders honored by the Nobel — Roosevelt, Sadat and Begin, Juan Manuel Santos — received the award for one flagship settlement , even if they had worked on other conflicts. That’s what makes Trump’s 2025 record so unusual: five separate agreements or ceasefires in less than a year, spanning three continents.


2 posted on 08/11/2025 9:46:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Just to point out how meaningless they are....o’bamski received one.


3 posted on 08/11/2025 9:46:48 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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And he received one for doing absolutely nothing discernable.


4 posted on 08/11/2025 9:48:37 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Pretty much describes his entire life......


5 posted on 08/11/2025 9:50:23 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s a bogus award.


6 posted on 08/11/2025 9:50:26 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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--- "The Nobel Peace Prize Trump Won't Get — and Why It Matters"

Once Obama was given that prize, the prize was sullied to the point that it no longer matters. It is not a worthy prize, any longer.

7 posted on 08/11/2025 9:52:22 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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The Peace Prize is one of those international institutions that started with noble sentiment, became corrupted over time, and now is decaying into irrelevance. (You could say the same thing about the UN.) Awarding it to Trump would do more for the giver than the recipient.


8 posted on 08/11/2025 9:55:51 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Agreed. I wouldn’t want an award in my name that was awarded to people like Obama, Al Gore, Arafat, and Sadat.


9 posted on 08/11/2025 9:56:28 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Jamestown1630

DEI Peace Prize.


10 posted on 08/11/2025 10:00:59 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump eliminated ISIS in six months during his first term. Obama could not do it in his entire 8 years. Instead Obama overthrew Libya and put al Qaeda in charge of it. He gets the Nobel Peace Prize, however.


11 posted on 08/11/2025 10:07:01 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: SeekAndFind

It doesn’t matter.


12 posted on 08/11/2025 10:09:11 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: SeekAndFind

If it’s not awarded for achievement, the Peace Prize is worthless.


13 posted on 08/11/2025 10:20:57 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The NPP is a joke after 0bama got one for not doing anything but will do something or other later.


14 posted on 08/11/2025 10:21:00 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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RE: Trump eliminated ISIS in six months during his first term. Obama could not do it in his entire 8 years

Obama UNDERESTIMATED ISIS, calling them a junior varsity team.

At the time, ISIS had just captured Fallujah, and Obama was responding to concerns about the resurgence of al-Qaeda-affiliated groups. He suggested that not every regional terrorist group posed the same level of threat as al-Qaeda under bin Laden.


15 posted on 08/11/2025 10:38:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Just to point out how meaningless they are....o’bamski received one.

And, to highlight how meaningless they are; he got nominated weeks before he even took office.

16 posted on 08/11/2025 10:39:27 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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17 posted on 08/11/2025 10:41:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Nobel, Oscar, Emmy, etc.
All self-congratulatory mutual whacking off.


18 posted on 08/11/2025 10:44:29 AM PDT by Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger
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To: SeekAndFind

It will go to the head of Hamas or the Ayatollah.


19 posted on 08/11/2025 10:51:22 AM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Guess he got it for obtaining the office?


20 posted on 08/11/2025 10:53:41 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍! Winning currently!)
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