{"id":257649,"date":"2025-07-12T01:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T01:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257649\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T01:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T01:19:10","slug":"can-trump-win-nobel-peace-prize-he-deserves-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/257649\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Trump win Nobel Peace Prize? He deserves consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If stopping the worst state sponsor of terrorism from acquiring nuclear weapons and then ending a war in the Middle East isn&#8217;t worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, then what is?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/84499995007-20250708-t-002503-z-1132187869-rc-2-zhfaqxyoa-rtrmadp-3-usaisrael.JPG\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Netanyahu nominates President Trump for Nobel Peace Prize<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/donald-trump\/\" data-autotag=\"26f031d1-9924-4f10-b4e6-019d076113d5\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> is the last person the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/about\/the-norwegian-nobel-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Norwegian Nobel Committee<\/a> would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/07\/08\/who-win-nobel-peace-prize-trump-netanyahu\/84503683007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">honor with its Peace Prize<\/a>. Yet, it should.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has helped end an escalating war <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/us-israel-diverge-how-pursue-iran-endgame-after-strikes-diplomats-say-2025-07-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">between Israel and Iran<\/a>, a conflict that easily could have engulfed the entire Middle East, with a single military strike. Now, he is pressing for a lengthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-860519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ceasefire between Israel and Hamas<\/a> as a bridge to a more permanent peace. He&#8217;s also worked, admittedly without success so far, to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. And he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jun\/21\/pakistan-trump-nobel-prize-recommendation-india-ceasefire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">helped settle escalating tensions between Pakistan and India<\/a> this spring.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump isn&#8217;t a peacemaker, then who is?<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/benjamin-netanyahu\/\" data-autotag=\"accc44f8-78ce-4fb3-80e8-074f9e826cc5\" rel=\"noopener\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> told Trump on Monday, July 7, that he&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-iran-israel-netanyahu-gaza-ceasefire-30dba4ae46fbec44dbe977a547e612f4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nominating the president for the peace prize<\/a> for his efforts in the Middle East. Those efforts include helping in 2020 to forge the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/05\/13\/trump-wants-saudi-arabia-join-abraham-accords\/83602361007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Abraham Accords<\/a>, which established diplomatic ties between Israel and Bahrain, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Marco Rubio: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2025\/07\/09\/trump-nato-defense-spending-rubio\/84503719007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump defense deal with NATO is a big, beautiful win for America | Opinion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s Nobel nomination deserves serious consideration<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/trump-gains-loses-nobel-peace-prize-nomination.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump has been nominated before for the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>, but this time it should be taken far more seriously. The progress that he helped to orchestrate in recent weeks is extraordinary, including the successful mission to stop Iran&#8217;s rush to build nuclear weapons followed by a still-intact ceasefire between Israel and Iran. History shows us just how incredible those achievements are in keeping the world safe.<\/p>\n<p>At the White House on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/videos\/israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-nominates-president-donald-j-trump-for-nobel-peace-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Netanyahu told Trump<\/a> that the president is &#8220;forging peace as we speak, in one country and one region after the other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is undoubtedly true. But Trump&#8217;s critics, including much of the mainstream media, will never admit it.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Japanese organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/peace\/2024\/nihon-hidankyo\/facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nihon Hidankyo<\/a> \u201cfor its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say that Trump, by heading off a nuclear-armed Iran, achieved that mission tenfold in June.<\/p>\n<p>And Trump&#8217;s Iran-Israel ceasefire did not seem possible given the Iranian government&#8217;s close ties to terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah. Yet, Trump did it, and that also is worthy of recognition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Opinion: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/columnist\/2025\/07\/01\/trump-stock-market-jobs-border-security\/84415919007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liberals call Trump a clown. But he&#8217;s winning where it matters most.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s work to secure peace measures up with other presidents&#8217; efforts<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/jica\/learn\/historyculture\/nobel-peace-prize-presidents.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It would not be unprecedented<\/a> for an American president to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Barack Obama\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-united-states-government-fd0fbcd09be746708be34c1b0bb95ed4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">won the award in 2009<\/a>, before he had completed the first year of his first term. Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the prize in 1906 for his role in mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War. Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter were awarded the prize as well.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s achievements rival those of the past presidents who won the award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:.5em;border:2px solid #4f4bb6;margin:0 auto\"><b>Opinion newsletter:<\/b> Sign up for our newsletter on conservative values, family and religion from columnist Nicole Russell. <a href=\"https:\/\/profile.usatoday.com\/newsletters\/the-right-track\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Get it delivered to your inbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s critics would melt into puddles of outrage, of course, if it were ever to happen. But I have a question for them: If stopping the worst state sponsor of terrorism from acquiring nuclear weapons and then ending a war in the Middle East isn&#8217;t worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, then what is?<\/p>\n<p>Peace through strength is more than a slogan. It&#8217;s an idea that has prevented more horrific wars than we will ever know.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has shown he not only understands that idea but also will act on it. The Norwegian Nobel Committee should as well.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Russell is an opinion columnist with USA TODAY.\u00a0She lives in Texas with her four kids.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/profile.usatoday.com\/newsletters\/the-right-track\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign up for her newsletter, The Right Track<\/a>, and get it delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If stopping the worst state sponsor of terrorism from acquiring nuclear weapons and then ending a war in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[83757,6505,5492,11753,11757,5762,11765,6178,8745,27482,5483,32,5491,5498,89520,835,774,837,87631,87632,2193,5488,12,98774,98775,1767,8041,391,11768,11767,7670,5179,5496,5494,5500,11752,28219,285,19799,28216,70,11759,1757,5181,49,978,659,11758,11769,771,17773,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-257649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-benjamin","9":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","10":"tag-branch","11":"tag-center","12":"tag-collection","13":"tag-columnists","14":"tag-columnists-opinions","15":"tag-conflict","16":"tag-content","17":"tag-contests","18":"tag-donald","19":"tag-donald-trump","20":"tag-executive","21":"tag-executive-branch","22":"tag-foundation","23":"tag-hamas","24":"tag-iran","25":"tag-israel","26":"tag-merit","27":"tag-merit-prizes-u0026-contests","28":"tag-netanyahu","29":"tag-neutral","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-nobel","32":"tag-nobel-foundation","33":"tag-nuclear","34":"tag-nuclear-weapons","35":"tag-opinion","36":"tag-opinion-collection","37":"tag-opinion-content","38":"tag-opinions","39":"tag-overall","40":"tag-overall-neutral","41":"tag-political","42":"tag-political-science","43":"tag-politically","44":"tag-politically-center-right","45":"tag-politics","46":"tag-prizes","47":"tag-right","48":"tag-science","49":"tag-sharing","50":"tag-trump","51":"tag-u0026","52":"tag-united-states","53":"tag-us","54":"tag-usa","55":"tag-usat","56":"tag-usat-content-sharing-opinion","57":"tag-war","58":"tag-war-u0026-conflict","59":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}