Donald Trump may have pulled off the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas after more than two brutal years of war, but the POTUS will have to wait a little longer for his Nobel moment.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Monday that this year’s Peace Prize would go instead to Venezuelan ‘Iron lady’ María Corina Machado.
“We receive thousands and thousands of letters every year of people wanting to say what — for them — leads to peace,” explained Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, on Friday, per The New York Post.
“This committee sits in a room filled with the portraits of all laureates. That room is filled with both courage and integrity. We base only our decision on the work and will of Alfred Nobel.”
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Interestingly, from Tel Aviv to Gaza City, footage showed people dancing, waving flags, and chanting ‘Nobel Prize to Trump!’ in the hours after the cease-fire was declared.
The 45th US President has built a reputation in his second term for trying his best to be seen as the peacemaker. Trump administration has been credited with helping cool down tensions between Russia and Ukraine, while also mediating between long-feuding nations such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Cambodia and Thailand, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Azerbaijan and Armenia.
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Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) vouched the president “in recognition of his extraordinary record of diplomatic achievement.”
In his letter to Frydnes, Barr wrote, “no world leader has done more to advance peace and prosperity in the world than President Donald Trump.”
However, the New York Post reported there were no tears shed at Mar-a-Lago over this year’s results. Winning on Friday “would be a surprise.”
Only four US President have actually won Nobel: Theodore Roosevelt (1906), Woodrow Wilson (1920), Jimmy Carter (2002), and Barack Obama (2009).
