TIME mag: Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize He Shamelessly Campaigned For

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Oct 10, 2025 4:05 AM CT
Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize He Shamelessly Campaigned For

https://time.com/7324832/trump-loses-nobel-peace-prize-maria-corina-machado/


Donald Trump was thirsty for diplomacy’s biggest medal. He woke up Friday, still parched.

Even before he returned to the White House in January, the President has been waging a far-from-subtle campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize. On Thursday, Trump made a last-minute pitch for the biggest prize in diplomacy, telling reporters in the Oval Office that he accomplished what no one else has. “I know this: that nobody in history has solved eight wars in a period of nine months. And I’ve stopped eight wars. So that’s never happened before,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with the President of Finland.

It was a big swing that turned into a bigger whiff.

...................So too did most of the nominations for Trump to get it—many of them from world leaders who were widely seen as doing it to curry favor with him.

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Still, with headlines of a nascent peace between Israel and Hamas dominating the moment, Trump was holding hope as late as this week that he could join the ranks of Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, and Nelson Mandela.


Trump, fueled by a bone-deep contempt for Barack Obama—who won the plaudit in his first year as President—has been shameless in his bid to become the fifth person in his role to get the prestigious nod for those who chase peace, disarmament, and international cooperation. On the surface, those markers do not exactly align with Trump’s record of isolationism, antagonism, and domestic militantism. (For more on why his winning the prize was always unlikely, check out this column from the director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo.)

But facts don’t matter to Trump. In his mind, he’s the bringer of peace, ender of wars, champion of tranquility, and more deserving than any of the 337 others to receive nominations this year...................... .........................

The push has been in the making for years. In 2018, Trump told his first-term Cabinet he deserved the honor. (That was also the same year that it was disclosed that two nominations for Trump were forgeries.) In June, he told reporters near his golf club in New Jersey that he “should’ve gotten it four or five times.” In September, he told the United Nations that he deserved the win. And a week later, he told Generals and Admirals summoned to Washington for a pep rally that denying him the prize would be “a big insult to our country.” ..................

Yes, so embarrassing.

— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) 2025-10-10T13:43:44.750Z

[C_U_L8R]

1. In a challenge recognizing integrity and courage

Trump totally lost.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

2. He was not considered for a simple reason.

"Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize closed on January 31 each year. This deadline allows the Nobel Committee time to assess the nominees before making their selection."

Had he kept his promise to end Russia's war on Ukraine on day one, he'd have had a shot.

Also his declarations of war on American cities is bound to disqualify him next year.

[Pachamama]

3. He was never a serious candidate and never will be a winner

The Nobel Committee will never sully the name and meaning of the prize with the Trump name.

Never.

[Wifes husband]

4. Don't be too sure

Henry Kissinger got it.