No extradition to Don: will Trump receive the Nobel Peace Prize
On October 10, the Nobel Committee will announce the winner of the 2025 Peace Prize. 338 candidates were nominated for the high award, including 244 individuals and 94 organizations. The main candidate for the award is Donald Trump. He himself has said more than once that there is no better candidate, because it was he who "stopped the seven wars." Analysts and historians of the award consider the American leader to be too controversial and belligerent a figure for such an award. Although in the history of the award, four US presidents have already received awards, moreover, sometimes with very vague formulations, or even in advance. Meanwhile, Trump himself has already hinted to Norway that he may reconsider trade duties for the kingdom. Details can be found in the Izvestia article.
Deserved it the most
"They will never give me the Nobel Peace Prize. I deserve it, but they'll never give it to me. Instead, they'll give it to some guy who didn't do a damn thing. And such a result would be a great insult to the United States," US President Donald Trump said as soon as he returned to the White House.
The American leader constantly flaunts the fact that he has ended either six or seven wars. These include conflicts, and not always military ones: between Thailand and Cambodia, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, Egypt and Ethiopia, as well as between Azerbaijan and Armenia, whose leaders signed a declaration of intent at the White House in early August. work on concluding a peace agreement.
Speaking recently at the UN General Assembly, the American leader said that he had "prevented seven wars."
Although Trump himself constantly emphasizes that he is not really interested in this award, The Economist magazine, citing sources, states the opposite.
According to the publication, this is a very important issue for the US president. And the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv reported that the head of state contacted former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who moved to the post of Minister of Finance of Norway, and was interested, among other things, in the Nobel Peace Prize.
What kind of bonus is this
The Nobel Prize was established in 1901 according to the will of the Swedish chemist, inventor and entrepreneur Alfred Nobel. It is awarded annually to people, movements and organizations that have made a significant contribution to the consolidation of peace, the protection of human rights, and the development of international cooperation.
Alfred Nobel
According to Nobel's plan, the peace Prize should be awarded by a committee consisting of five people selected by the Norwegian parliament, the Storting. The rest of the prizes established by the Swedish chemist should be awarded in Sweden. At that time, Sweden and Norway were in a personal union (that is, as part of the united kingdom). Nobel did not provide a specific explanation for his decision, but researchers in his biography agree that this is due to Oslo's more peaceful foreign policy, focused on international arbitration and neutrality.
Members of governments and parliaments, university professors, heads of research institutes in the field of peace and international relations, members of the International Court of Justice, past prize winners or heads of laureate organizations, former and current members of the Nobel Committee, and former advisers to the Committee have the right to nominate candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Any person or organization can be nominated for the award, but the candidacy must be justified by describing in detail the merits of the nominee in strengthening peace, protecting human rights or developing international cooperation.
Data on the nominees has been kept secret for 50 years, so if Trump does not win on October 10, it will be half a century before it will be possible to find out if he was on the shortlist of 2025 contenders at all.
The members of the Nobel Committee are elected by the Norwegian Parliament for a term of six years with the right to re-election. Usually, the composition of the committee should reflect the balance of political forces in the storting, and Norwegian officials and politicians who are little known to the international public usually become members of the committee.
The Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony takes place on December 10, the day of Nobel's death. The winner receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary reward, the amount of which depends on the income of the foundation, which was also established under the will of Alfred Nobel. The amount of the award is adjusted based on the number of laureates and can be divided among several winners. The maximum premium reached $1.4 million, and the minimum was $150,000. The funds received can be used both for personal purposes and to support various projects and initiatives.
Four awarded
Since the creation of the Nobel Peace Prize, four American leaders have received it. The first was Theodore Roosevelt, the author of the "big cudgel" foreign policy concept, which the United States actively applied to Latin American countries. The belligerent president has repeatedly said that he is guided by the principle of "speak softly, but hold a big club in your hands, and you will go far."
He was awarded the Peace Prize for being a mediator at the Portsmouth talks, "reconciling Russia with Japan" (although he actively supported Tokyo during the war). This decision seemed controversial to many. As the European media wrote at the time, "Alfred Nobel himself would surely turn over in his grave if he found out about this."
The 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt
The second American leader to receive the award was Woodrow Wilson, for his peacekeeping efforts after World War I and his desire to create the League of Nations.
After that, in 2002, Jimmy Carter, who had long since left the White House, was awarded the prize "for his common contribution to the cause of peace," and in the first year of his reign, the prize was given to Barack Obama with vague wording about "strengthening international diplomacy and cooperation between people." The politician himself admitted at the time that he had received the award in advance because he did not deserve it. At that time, the United States was fighting at least two wars — in Afghanistan and Libya.
Trump's Friends List
For the first time, the question of the possible awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump was raised during his first presidential term, in 2019, by then-Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe. The head of the Japanese cabinet came up with such an initiative after the first summit between the United States and the DPRK in Singapore.
In June 2025, Trump's candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize for mediation in resolving the conflict between New Delhi and Islamabad was recommended by the Pakistani authorities. A few days later, Republican Congressman Buddy Carter came up with the same initiative. He sent a letter to the Nobel Committee in which he stressed that the American leader "played an extraordinary and historic role in ending the armed conflict between Israel and Iran."
In private conversations with European colleagues, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff raised the issue of nominating the American leader for the Nobel Prize, and the head of the US State Department, Marco Rubio, also expressed support for the candidacy of the US president.
In August, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet followed the example of Pakistani and American politicians. By the end of the month, a list of foreign leaders who support the American leader's candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize appeared on the White House website. Among them are Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Gabonese President Brice Olighi Nguema, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, Pakistani authorities and Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe.
At the end of September, Ukrainian MPs nominated Trump for the Nobel Prize, and they submitted the corresponding initiative to the Verkhovna Rada.
Meanwhile, according to The Economist, Jorgen Watne Friednes, who has been heading the committee since 2024, said late last year that Donald Trump was responsible "for the erosion of freedom of speech even in democratic countries."
The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jorgen Watne Friednes
Meanwhile, Norway fears possible retaliatory measures if Donald Trump does not receive the award, Bloomberg reports, citing sources. In 2010, before the Peace Prize was awarded, the Norwegian Committee received warnings from China about the consequences of awarding it to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who later died in prison. In response, China froze diplomatic contacts and free trade negotiations with Norway until 2016.
What do the experts think
Andrei Kortunov, the scientific director of the Russian International Affairs Council, noted in an interview with Izvestia that Donald Trump could receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
— There have been cases when American presidents have received the Nobel Prize with significantly less merit. For example, Barack Obama was given it practically in advance, in the hope that he would be a peacemaker and somehow strengthen international security," the political scientist noted.
According to the expert, Trump's problem is that he possesses many qualities that are directly opposed to the principles and guidelines of the Nobel Committee.
Donald Trump
— There are mostly people sitting there who advocate traditional European liberalism. It is easier for them to give the award to some human rights defender or victim of political repression than to give it to the American president, about whom they have doubts, the expert believes.
In his opinion, many things "still work against Trump."
— But this is not the last year of his rule, not the last meeting of the Nobel Committee. If peace between Israel and Palestine can be achieved, or if some of his other initiatives demonstrate sustainability and longevity, then maybe not this year, but let's say he will receive a prize in the future. It is clear that Trump is impatient, he would like to get everything now," the analyst stressed. He also added that if the American leader does not receive the award, a rather emotional reaction may follow on his part.
— And this must also be taken into account, — concluded Kortunov.
Fyodor Lukyanov, a political scientist and editor-in-chief of the journal Russia in Global Politics, believes that the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee will have a real impact on international politics.
"It's hard to remember when this event was expected so intensely, with the understanding that the committee had always been striving for this, and that both Nobel and the managers of his legacy saw the meaning of the whole undertaking," the political scientist noted.
In his opinion, the responsibility of the committee is quite high this time. "Even if Trump understands that he will not be rewarded, he will not hide his resentment, which he has already warned about when speaking to the military. And an offended Trump is not only the head of the most powerful country in the world, he is also a force of nature," the expert concluded.
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