Donald Trump has long made it clear that he would like to win the Nobel Peace Prize —and that he’s upset he hasn’t won it yet. Trump declared last weekend that he should have received at least five Nobel Peace Prizes.
Trump has, however, been nominated for the prize on multiple occasions. The Nobel Peace Prize’s rules make it relatively easy to nominate someone for the honor, and anyone who is a government official, a university professor, or a member of various other bodies can write a letter and nominate whomever they choose.
Just in the last month, Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) was one of several people to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, this time for arranging a ceasefire in the conflict between Iran and Israel. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) went so far as to say on his show last week that the Nobel Peace Prize should be renamed the “Trump Peace Prize.”
BREAKING: Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize Nomination WITHDRAWN:
Ukrainian politician Oleksandr Merezhko, who nominated him has said that he has “lost any sort of faith and belief” in President Trump.
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However, Trump is now one Nobel nomination short. That’s because Ukrainian politician Oleksandr Merezhko, who had earlier nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, announced this week that he is withdrawing his nomination.
According to Newsweek, Merezhko, the head of Ukraine’s parliamentary foreign committee, has “lost any sort of faith and belief” in Trump, as efforts to secure a peace between Russia and Ukraine have been sidelined as Trump has turned his attention to Iran.
Trump, the Ukrainian official added, “is evading—he is dodging—the need to impose sanctions on Russia.”
Earlier this month, the government of Pakistan announced that it would “formally recommend President Donald J. Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize,” following Trump’s assistance with recent peace talks between India and Pakistan.
However, other lawmakers in Pakistan have pushed back against the nomination, especially after the American air strikes on Iran, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the attack.
“Why should Pakistan nominate a man who violated international law by bombing Iran?” Maleeha Lodhi, the former Pakistani ambassador to the US, said on social media. “It is a very ill-conceived move by the government, and it should rescind it, it should withdraw it.”
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