THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED, AND IT ISN’T PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.

 

THE PRIZE HAS LONG BEEN COVETED BY TRUMP, WHO CLAIMED DURING HIS 2024 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN THAT HE WOULD RESOLVE THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE IN JUST ONE DAY.

 

A HANDFUL OF LEADERS, INCLUDING ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU AND US SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE MIKE JOHNSON, HAVE SAID THAT TRUMP WAS WORTHY OF THE AWARD.

 

SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister:

"I want to present to you, Mr. President, the letter I sent to the Nobel Prize committee. It's nominating you for the peace prize, which is well-deserved. And you should get it."

 

TRUMP HAS BEEN VOCAL ABOUT HIS DESIRE FOR THE AWARD DURING BOTH TERMS BUT WAS ESPECIALLY VOCAL ABOUT IT SINCE TAKING OFFICE A SECOND TIME IN JANUARY.

 

SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:

“No matter what I do, they won't give it. And I'm not politicking for it. 

 

ONLY FOUR US PRESIDENTS HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE PEACE PRIZE: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, WOODROW WILSON, JIMMY CARTER AND BARACK OBAMA.

 

THE NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE, WHICH CONSISTS OF A FIVE-MEMBER PANEL APPOINTED BY THE NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENT, VOTES ON THE PRIZE.

President Donald Trump was passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday despite jockeying from his fellow Republicans, various world leaders and — most vocally — himself.

Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela was awarded the prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it was honoring her “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

Trump, who has long coveted the prestigious prize, has been outspoken about his desire for the honor during both of his presidential terms, particularly lately as he takes credit for ending conflicts around the world. He has expressed doubts that the Nobel committee would ever grant him the award.

“They’ll have to do what they do. Whatever they do is fine. I know this: I didn’t do it for that. I did it because I saved a lot of lives,” Trump said Thursday.

Although Trump received a number of nominations for the prize, many of them occurred after the Feb. 1 deadline for the 2025 award, which fell just a week and a half into his first term. His name was, however, put forth in December by Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney of New York, her office said in a statement, for his brokering of the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and several Arab states in 2020.

Nevertheless, Trump and his supporters are likely to view the decision to pass him over for the award as a deliberate affront to the U.S. leader, particularly after the president's involvement in getting Israel and Hamas to initiate the first phase of ending their devastating two-year-old war.