Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth clap for President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

President Donald Trump’s extraordinary public lobbying campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize hasn’t proven very convincing.

A Washington Post-Ipsos poll last month showed even about half of Republicans said Trump didn’t deserve one. Just 22% of Americans overall said that he did .

But on Wednesday a Trump Nobel suddenly became more plausible with the announcement of a phase-one ceasefire deal in Gaza .

Much remains to be ironed out, and time will tell how successful it is. The news also didn’t seem to arrive in time for this year’s prize announcement, which happens to be Friday.

But even some nonp

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