Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

The Washington Post ^ | October 9, 2025 | Marc A. Thiessen

[E. Pluribus Unum]

His Gaza agreement, though still fragile, adds to an unprecedented peacemaking record.

Not only does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but there has arguably never been an American president who deserved it more.

Four of his predecessors have won the prize. Barack Obama won seven months into his presidency essentially for not being George W. Bush — and even he said he didn’t deserve it. Woodrow Wilson won for creating the League of Nations, which proved to be a feckless disaster that the United States never even joined. Theodore Roosevelt won for ending a single conflict, the Russo-Japanese War, which began with Japan’s 1904 attack on the Russian fleet in Manchuria (Japan later launched a full invasion of Manchuria in 1931, and then a surprise attack on the U.S. in 1941). Jimmy Carter won in 2002, more than two decades after leaving the White House, for a lifetime of work in peacemaking, beginning with the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt.

Contrast this with Trump’s record. In his first term, Trump brokered not one, not two, not three, but four Arab-Israeli peace accords — the first such agreements in more than a quarter-century. He did it by rejecting the failed conventional wisdom of the foreign policy establishment, which said that there could be no separate peace without the Palestinians and that moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and confronting Iran’s aggression would inflame the region and put peace out of reach. Those moves did the opposite. The Abraham Accords alone were an achievement worthy of a Nobel Prize.

Since returning to the White House, Trump has brought leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda together...

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[RandFan]

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[1Old Pro]

Not only does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but there has arguably never been an American president who deserved it more.

I'd argue that they need to rename it to the Trump peace Prize he deserves it so much.

[Mr. Mojo]

The prize has been forever tarnished by it being given it to the father of modern terrorism, Yasser Arafat. Also Gore and Obama. I’d like to see Trump refuse it on those grounds.

[blackdog]

Heads exploding everywhere.

[Fido969]

Opinion column. Marc Thiessen has been a Trump supporter.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Opinion column.

Aren't they all?

[Spok]

Deserving it isn’t the criteria for the Nobel award. It’s a DEI decision now.

[rktman]

Pretty much a useless award considering who has gotten them.

[SkyDancer]

Not really worth it when 0bama got one for doing nothing but might do something something later.

[woodbutcher1963]

No, he needs to accept it just to make the liberals go crazy.

[Vermont Lt]

He certainly has been lobbying for it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone want a “prize” so much.

They will NEVER give it to him.

[SMARTY]

If Arafat and O’Bozo got one then Trump should get about 6

[Sirius Lee]

Trump should get about 6

And if he does he should melt them down snd turn them into a golden toilet seat.

[dfwgator]

And he should tell them what they can do with it.

[Political Junkie Too]

Watch Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize, and then the Democrats try to step all over it by crying "emoluments" if he accepts the prize money.

-PJ

[arthurus]

It should not be given. Its history makes it demeaning. If hwe is awarded it he should NOT go to the ceremony. If it comes to him in the White House, he should on camera accept and say something like, “Yeah. Well, it’s nice,” and put it down on a nearby table, then commence to give a speech or remarks on something totally unrelated.

[Pollard]

This from WAPO and it’s not token conservative Sunday?

[paudio]

I don’t think he really wants it. He seems to troll the Nobel Prize Committee and highlight their hypocrisy.

[SMARTY]

😁