Is the Nobel Peace Prize the way in which to President Donald Trump’s coronary heart? Some world leaders appear to assume so.
It began with Pakistan. Israel and Cambodia adopted. And now, following Trump’s “peace summit” bringing collectively the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Aug. 8, and ending a long time of battle, the 2 former Soviet states have promised to write down a joint nomination to the Nobel committee.
Trump has lengthy coveted the Nobel Peace Prize, and his buddies, including lawmakers, have nominated him for the consideration quite a few occasions. He is additionally mocked former President Barack Obama, who received the award in 2009 one 12 months into his first time period, saying he didn’t know “what the hell he acquired it for.”
Requested by a reporter if he had any “ideas on the discuss President Trump profitable the Nobel Peace Prize,” Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated through the White Home occasion that he would “promote” and “favor” such a transfer.
Seated subsequent to Trump, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan went on to counsel a “joint attraction” to Norway-based Nobel Peace Prize committee.
As leaders of nations “which have been at warfare for greater than three a long time, having this historic signature right here, it actually means lots,” stated Aliyev.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds the fingers of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as they shake fingers between one another throughout a trilateral signing occasion, on the White Home, in Washington, D.C., August 8, 2025.
“That is tangible results of President Trump’s management, and nobody may have achieved that,” Aliyev added.
Pashinyan then jokingly requested Trump if there was a draft of the nomination letter obtainable so he may signal proper there. Aliyev shortly joined in to say he’d signal, too.
The one factor the leaders wished in return? Invitation to the ceremony.
“You may be entrance row,” Trump promised.
This picture taken on September 25, 2024 reveals a portrait of former US president Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 2009, subsequent to different images of laureates on a wall of the committee assembly room on the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway.
A couple of minutes later a reporter requested Trump if October 10, when the Norwegian committee is slated to make the announcement, was circled on his calendar.
“I can’t say,” Trump responded, including that as a result of he’s of “a sure persuasion, it doesn’t matter what I do, they will not give it.”
“I am not politicking for it,” stated Trump. “I’ve lots of people which are.”
Again in June, quickly after Pakistan Military Chief Asim Munir met with Trump within the wake of a four-day India-Pakistan conflict, the Pakistan authorities introduced that it was nominating Trump for the Nobel Prize “in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership” through the battle.
India didn’t credit score Trump with enjoying a job within the ceasefire.
In July, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered Trump throughout a White Home go to with a letter that he stated he had despatched to the Nobel committee nominating him for the prize.
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet announced on Aug. 7 that he had additionally nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his “direct consideration to initiating and pushing for a ceasefire between the Cambodian military and Thai military” to cease the border battle between Cambodia and Thailand.
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy is a White Home correspondent for USA TODAY. You possibly can comply with her on X @SwapnaVenugopal
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