What are Trump's chances to receive the Nobel for Peace? “I deserve it, but they will never give it to me”
The thirst for international prestige, the rivalry with Obama and maybe a splash of challenge: all of these are found in Donald Trump's obsession for the Nobel Peace Prize, writes AFP, taken over by News.ro. “It is more than the time for Donald Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize,” Karoline Leavitt said on July 31, during the Routine Press Conference at the White House, raising half -reactions, half ironic from the opponents of the Republican leader.
Leavitt has estimated that, since his return to power, on January 20, the US president has sponsored the conclusion of “an armistice or peace agreement per month”, giving exams his mediation between India and Pakistan, Cambodia and Thailand, Egypt and Ethiopia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Serbia and Kosovo.
Karoline Leavitt also mentioned Iran, where Trump ordered American blows against nuclear installations, as an illustration of decisions that, in her opinion, contributed to world peace. It was silent, however, the conflict in Ukraine or the war in Gaza, which Trump had promised to stop quickly and where things actually got worse.
A US president's flattering technique
The mention of the prestigious prize has become, for some foreign leaders, a sign of diplomatic goodwill towards an American president who has over the international order. Pakistan, for example, nominated on Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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During a meeting in the beginning of July, at the White House, a journalist asked the presidents of Liberia, Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau and Gabon if the American leader deserves this award. Listening to the generally flattering answers of African leaders, Trump, delighted, confessed: “I could do this all day.”
Thousands, even tens of thousands of people can propose a name to the Nobel Committee: parliamentarians and ministers, some university professors, members of the Committee itself, former laureates. The nomination must be submitted before January 31, to be announced in October – this year, on October 10.
The law teacher Anat Alon-Beck proposed the name of the US president to the five personalities who compose the committee, designated by the Norwegian Parliament. She told AFP that she did this because of the “extraordinary authority” and the “strategic talent” of which, in her opinion, she showed in “promotion of peace and ensuring the release of hostages” detained in the Gaza strip. Academician, who teaches at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, said he acted “as a law teacher, but also as American-Israeli citizen.”
Trump himself is skeptical
Trump himself regularly brings this topic into question. “Whatever I do, I will not receive the Nobel prize,” he complained in June on his social social network.
In February, in the presence of Benjamin Netanyahu, he said: “I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.” “Trump has the reputation for being particularly passionate about rewards and prizes, so he would be delighted with this international recognition,” commented for AFP Garret Martin, professor of international relations at the American University. “In addition, since he declared his presidential ambitions ten years ago, he presents himself as the great opponent of Barack Obama,” who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, stresses the expert.
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The distinction granted to the former Democrat president, just nine months after taking over the position to lead the United States, has aroused and continues to arouse heated debates. “If I had called Obama, I would have received the Nobel prize in ten seconds,” Trump said in October 2024, in the last straight line of the presidential campaign.
Three other American presidents were honored with the prestigious prize: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter. The prize was also awarded in 1973 to Henry Kissinger. The choice of the former Secretary of State, considered in many countries as the embodiment of diplomatic brutality and cynicism, was also very criticized.
The full list of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize is confidential – except for the individual ads of their supporters – but their number is made public. In 2025, there are 338. Some betting sites give Trump in the second place, behind Iulia Navalnaia, the widow of the Russian opponent Aleksei Navalnîi.
