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Posted on 10/09/2025 7:28:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On a season eight episode of The Simpsons, newscaster Kent Brockman interviews a man who’s woken up from a 23-year-long coma, and lets him know that Sonny Bono is now a Congressman and Cher has won an Oscar. The man dies soon after. If someone were to wake up from a coma today to find out that Donald Trump, who 23 years ago was hosting The Apprentice, is now the leading candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, it would have a similar result.
But who else deserves the award? If you can give Peace Prizes to Al Gore and Barack Obama for basically being Cool Liberal Guys Who Aren’t Dick Cheney, you can give one to Donald Trump. Look at who’s nominated him: Benjamin Netanyahu, the government of Pakistan, The Israeli Hostages Family Forum. It’s not exactly Rudy Giuliani, Kayleigh McEnany and an anonymous account from Barron’s burner phone. The “President of peace” does seem a little too eager to get his hands on the medal. “I should have gotten it four or five times,” he said in June.
But, again, who else should get it at this moment in history? Jimmy Carter deserved one in 1978 for brokering the Camp David Accords.
What Trump’s done is equally significant. The list of other deserving candidates is pretty small: They could always give it to Pope Leo, who seems like a nice Pope, or to Chef José Andres, who’s fed millions of refugees in need. If the Nobel Committee hands it to Greta Thunberg, it might actually cause World War III.
The only logical answer is Trump’s son-in-law, and the man who’s quietly done all the actual work on negotiating the Israel-Hamas peace accords: Jared Kushner. We’ve heard Kushner’s name in the Peace Prize conversation before. In 2022, Congressman Lee Zeldin nominated him for his role in brokering the Abraham Accords between Israel and the UAE, and the year before, Alan Dershowitz nominated him for the same reason. Then-CNN political writer Chris Cilizza, who’s never been nominated for anything other than “Weenus of the Year,” said that these nominations were “less of a big deal than you think.” But they were actually a pretty big deal.
In 2022, Jared Kushner was not anywhere near the seat of power. The Washingtonian wrote an article about him called “Javanka In Exile,” as he and Ivanka Trump tried to navigate their way in what a prematurely triumphant media considered to be a post-Trump Washington. And what was Jared Kushner doing in “exile”? Getting Nobel Peace Prize nominations while quietly going about his billionaire business trying to achieve an impossible 3,000-year-old dream of bringing peace to the Middle East.
Hamas’s horrifying October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel and Israel’s response in Gaza were the opposite of peace in the Middle East. If anything, it created a situation where regional war could explode into world conflict, with calls to “globalize the intifada.” The war between Islamic militants and defenders of Israel spilled off computer screens and into the streets of the world, sometimes violently. Once the Trump Restoration occurred, Trump sent Kushner back into the fray. In his calm, patient, non-spotlight-seeking way, Kushner has once again sought to bring peace where, as long as any of us have lived, there’s been war.
Of course Trump is taking credit. That’s what he does. “All I can do is put out wars,” he said at the United Nations recently. “I don’t seek attention. I just want to save lives.” Trump always seeks attention, and it might be hard to sell him to the Nobel Peace committee on a week where he threatens to arrest the Mayor of Chicago, orders the National Guard to Portland and brags about blowing Venezuelan drug boats out of the water. Even if he goes to Egypt this weekend and parts the Red Sea, it still might not be enough. But peace in our time, despite all that, is still within reach.
The late Tom Lehrer once said “political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize.” And it’s true, they gave the prize for ending the Vietnam War to the architect of the firebombing of Cambodia.
Political satire is now either obsolete, or maybe we all just live in it daily. Donald Trump didn’t start the fire in the Middle East, but he’s certainly doing all he can to end the conflict, or at least Jared Kushner is. Give Jared the Nobel Prize. Javanka is no longer in exile.
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Agreed!
Really underrated and under-thanked human being all around.
God bless him and his family.
Kushner’s also done a lot of behind the scenes work on US prison reform.
The Magik Knee-grøw had done NOTHING other than to grovel before the House of Saud.
Kushner certainly deserves credit, but all those involved in the negotiations have acknowledged that none of their efforts would have amounted to anything had Trump not been there to back it up. The Saudi royals seem to have developed a strong level of trust with Kushner, but that trust only exists because they trust Trump.
Not to downgrade or belittle Kushner, but Trump has worked on various conflicts in various regions that Kushner probably had little or no role in.
Marco Rubio is another obvious candidate!
All of the “Jew haters” around here would lose their minds.
To be clear, Jared Kushner may actually ruffle the feathers of neoconservatives and hyper-Zionists with his willingness to negotiate and personal friendships with Arabs.
In 1994, the Nobel committee awarded a Peace Prize to Yasir Arafat.
It is just not the award it used to be.
They will not be able to bring themselves to give it to Trump. They hate him too much. They will look petty and silly when they don’t which they are.
The reality is that Jared would get the award before Trump.
i read one article that greta thunberg had already been awarded the nobel piece prize for arranging this piece agreement ...
I think it would be a bit of a slight to give it to someone else instead of Trump. Trump persisted in seeking peace, came up with ideas, appointed Kushner and Witkoff, made threats when necessary, and built up trust since his first term. Besides, he intervened in several other wars, and he is trying to bring peace to Ukraine. If anyone deserves to be acknowledged for his efforts to bring peace to the world, it is Trump.
And I will be frank here-I want very much for Trump to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Not because I think the award means much any more, but because of this possible future:
JØRGEN WATNE FRYDNES: As the Chair of the Nobel Prize Committee, I would like to present the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to...President Donald J. Trump!
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Thank you. Thank you. I.... (everyone ducks and hits the ground as what sounds like few sharp pops swells into what appears to be automatic weapons firing)
JØRGEN WATNE FRYDNES: Mr. President, you must drop to the ground for safety! Please...
PRESIDENT TRUMP: (standing casually, unconcerned) Jørgen, Jørgen, nothing to worry about. It's not guns shooting at me. I know what that sounds like. But they could never hit me, you know. And I'm a big target. Big. Bigger than they have ever seen. And they try. They are just bad people. Bad shots. Bad people.
JØRGEN WATNE FRYDNES: Wha-what??? It's not g-g-gunfire?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Nooo. And it isn't champagne corks being popped either. It is the heads of my Leftist enemies exploding. Listen, now...from sea to shining sea! All over this big, beautiful nation of ours. A nation someday that may include both Canada and Greenland. If they want to. If they don't, well I don't know. Maybe I'll send the National Guard up there. Or maybe a few B-2 bombers. You know what those are, right? We have them. Nobody else has anything like them. But, you know, they just appear out of nowhere, and then you're dead. Blown to smithereens. Very dangerous planes. Very dangerous.
Do you think Trump or Kushner has any great interest in seeing Palestinian lifers set loose?
Do you think Trump or Kushner uses the European date format?
Some HAMAS guy is going to win a prize for the plan.
I wasn’t in the room, but Jared was...with Abraham Accords and now this...both were considered impossible. He’s listened, understood, and persuaded.
I hope he develops Gaza on the Med.
The Nobel Committee will ignore Trump and Kushners efforts that brought peace to the war torn Middle East. The Peace Prize became a joke when Obama was awarded it for doing nothing.
Very interesting. Is Kushner the real deal?
F Jared.
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