Donald Trump Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize Despite Bringing Peace to the Middle East
Donald Trump was today snubbed by Nobel Peace Prize judges – who instead awarded the prize to a Venezuelan politician – despite the President bringing peace to the Middle East. The Telegraph has more.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced its decision on Friday, handing the award to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition politician.
Ms Machado was honoured “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”, said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the Chair of the committee in Oslo.
The committee’s role is to award the peace prize to the figure, or group, that has done the most to “promote fraternity between nations”, in accordance with the will of Alfred Nobel.
Two days before the committee announced a winner, the US President declared he had secured “peace in the Middle East” after brokering the deal under which Israel and Hamas agreed to end the nearly two-year conflict.
At the 11th hour, Mr Trump’s campaign received a spate of late backers, and his allies went into overdrive to help win him the award he has openly coveted for years.
But despite claiming to have brokered the elusive peace deal and ended “seven unendable wars”, it was not enough.
The President has been outspoken about his desire for a prize won by four of his predecessors – Barack Obama in 2009, Jimmy Carter in 2002, Woodrow Wilson in 1919, and Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.
All but Carter won the award while in office, with Mr Obama named laureate less than eight months after taking office, the same position Mr Trump is in now.
In his first term in office, Mr Trump also brokered what are known as the Abraham Accords, normalisation deals between Israel and Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Sudan.
Ultimately, the five-strong committee would have probably chosen its winner long before the Gaza ceasefire agreement, after months of deliberations. It held its final meeting on Monday – two days before Mr Trump announced that the first phase of the peace deal had been agreed.
Insiders had also warned that the President’s wider record in government would probably count against him, highlighting his decision to cut US Aid and impose worldwide tariffs.
Committee secretary Kristian Berg Harpviken, who participates in all the deliberations of the five-strong panel but does not vote, said the award was not intended for last-minute achievements.
“This is a prize primarily for work done in 2024 and prior years, it’s not a prize for the work done in the most recent weeks or months,” Mr Harpviken told broadcaster NRK early on Friday.
Experienced Nobel-watchers had also said that a Trump win was extremely unlikely, citing what they saw as his efforts to dismantle the post-Second World War international world order the Nobel committee cherishes.
Maybe next year? Assuming it’s not only for globalists. But given it’s previously been awarded to Yasser Arafat, a terrorist leader who once tried not just to obliterate Israel but overthrow the government of Jordan, their standards on wider considerations can’t be that high…
Worth reading in full.
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Imagine my surprise!
(You’ll have to imagine it, as it doesn’t exist).
I think the photo has been A1 doctored to include the medal. Now who would do such a thing if it wasn’t team Trump?
There is an increasing number of prestigious awards it’s an honour not to receive.
Agreed. There is far more prestige in not being awarded this sham “prize.” What the hell did Obummer win the Peace Prize for? – I’m not going to look it up.
If Trump really does achieve a degree of peace in the Middle East it will remain in national memories and mean far more to the world in general and for far longer than fake plastic baubles from some globalist nonce committee.
Obummer got it for being black as far as I can tell.
Yes, black and not white.
That sounds about right. 👍
Half black.
A President.
That’s it.
There’s only one explanation that makes real sense:
Obama asked for and was given the Nobel prize to verify that there is a global conspiracy that runs the whole world . He knew he had done nothing to deserve it and it’s a Swedish prize supposedly distinct from the USA.
They liked the idea of a black US president and his ability to sound convincing even when he was talking – stuff that makes no sense, ie nonsense!
Being ‘Obama’
What a surprise. As has been said elsewhere, he doesn’t fit into the timetable, or schedule, for the committee this year. Anyhow, if it turns out not to work as intended, it would look like an inappropriate prize.
I would not want to be a member of a club like that. They gave an award to Abama yet he fostered conflict by his detached approach to international affairs. He fopstered conflict within America and towards the UK by his primitive racist views and statements.
Yeah, swings and roundabouts.
MLK got one. As did Mandela. Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama.
In any case the whole thing is just one big group jerk off.
With eaxh award the Nobel Prize organisation is trying to promote itself as much as reward people. It is a symbiotic relationship between two groups of people – awarders and recipients – that care deeply about status and accolades.
Your mention of the Dalai Lama reminded me of a discussion I had only yesterday, where is he now? Remember when Tibet was the ‘Current Thing’? – all the Hollywood glitterati were pro-‘Free Tibet’, everyone wanted a piece of the Dalai Lama. But the mood music has definitely changed – the fool Cameron had to write a groveling apology to China for daring to even meet the DL, and presumably now that China is a massive market for the chosen few Hollywood films, nobody in LA dare say anything about Tibet. I guess that’s how the Nobel Peace Prize works, perhaps they should rename it the Nobel Current Thing Prize.
To be fair, in 2010 they gave the prize to a dissident, Liu Xiaobo, and poked China in the eye with it.
But they were different times.
They also gave one to Kissinger, the man who orchestrated the Vietnam war and bombed the heck out of the country.
Bob Geldolf a lefty too boot, not my favourite person, but look at what he did with Live aid and the response to the famine, once again overlooked by the Nobel lot.
But Barack Obama the mixed race, but adopted by the virtuous as an example of how right on they are, he was awaded one. For what?, how did what he did compare with what Trump has tried to do since he became President.
The Nobel Prizes are a club, given to those members of the self appointed elite, in their own clique of self righteous. Trump, Geldolf in their eyes are common, and vulgar rough white men who do not know their place.
The Nobel committee like the U.N., The WHO, The WEF, The ECHR, are Dinosaurs, the equivalent of the once French aristocracy and the ruling classes of the middle ages. they are finished, diminishing in power, and importance. The majority see them now for what they are and as a result disdains them.
I think it’s horrible and creepy what Geldof did to get revenge on Paula Yates and Michael Hutchence, seizing absolute control of their child and her inheritance after her parents died, and keeping her away from her Australian family, even though she was no relation at all to Geldof.
Not to mention how the Ethiopian dictator laughed his socks off at how the idiot Geldof arranged to feed those he was deliberately starving.
Bob Geldof and Live Aid pushed Africans further into the dirt. Just like Oxfam, which forces thousands of successful seamstresses and dressmakers into poverty and prostitution simply by flooding the continent with free clothes in a frenzy of misguided virtue signalling.
As we are seeing in Gaza, the Live Aid food convoys were hijacked by the local war lords, or had to have punitive bribes or were just denied access. 400,000 tons of food rotted to nothing on the quayside
I remember a video of Obama promising a cheering election rally crowd that if they elected him, he would bring all the troops home from Afghanistan. “And you can take that to the bank!” he declared to a standing ovation and thunderous applause.
But as soon as he was elected President, he suddenly declared a “Surge” and poured even more American troops into Afghanistan to be maimed and slaughtered.
Then the Norwegian Committee awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize!!!
What is it with Democrat Presidents and Childs Hair Sniffing..?
They don’t want to take the risk that he would refuse it.
It just looks like the timing was off, and the process of selecting the winner was over and awaiting announcement before the Trump deal was announced.
Barack Obama in 2009, Jimmy Carter in 2002, Woodrow Wilson in 1919
All appear in Thomas Sowell’s 5 worst American president’s list.
I like Trump for the most part, but he hasn’t ‘brought peace to the Middle East’.
He used American leverage to enforce a ransom deal for Israel’s remaining hostages whilst his administration benefits hugely from Qatari ‘investments’ (ahem).
We don’t yet know what inducements were offered to Turkey, Egypt or Qatar (world’s biggest funder of jihadist terrorism).
Presumably, Hamas will evacuate to Qatar and co from where it will resume its war on Israel.
Personally, I’d rather have seen the IDF finish the annihilation of Hamas, but obviously good to see 20 living hostages freed.
I’d love to think there will be lasting peace in the Middle East but, like you, I’m cynical. Still, if it provides a time for normal, law-abiding people to be safe, then that’s a positive.
Predictable. Human rights trump human life.
The Nobel committee is helping the US in their attempts at “regime change” in Venezuela and should be ashamed of themselves.
At the event organised by Toby for a book launch on “The War on Science” TDS was on display by the panellists. A sociology professor firmly insisted that Autism was unconnected with paracetamol so research was damaging. Others claimed his partial defunding of institutions which have promoted the attack on science is itself an attack on science.
Apart from these irrational outbursts and the declared leftism of a majority of the panel it was a success. I am only just finishing the first chapter. Leftism is, of course, strongly associated with wokery and other authoritarianism.
He should stop pursuing it. Just be humble with his wins and move forward.
A bit soon, isn’t it?
So far he hasn’t so mich brought peace to the Middle East as announced to everyone that that is what he has done.
In any case peace in the Middle East is a rather elusive thing. A few people have received the Nobel prize for that – Sadat/Begin, Arafat/Rabin – and only more carnage followed.
People probably need to calm down a bit and wait to see if anything actually comes of this.
Why would he want it? It has gone full woke and is not worth the paper it’s printed in.
they gave bob dylan the prize for literature for gods sake!
It’s all Globalist hogwash anyway just like the Olympics.