# Nobel Peace Prize Announced; It Doesn't Go to Trump **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 10, 2025, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845 "2025-10-10T09:13:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/61 "2025-10-10T18:14:29Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Well, now Trump has to invade Venezuela (or else shoot down every boat or plane leaving ghe country) to prevent her from accespting the award. The U.S. has no real say in whether she can travel. I think the Nobel committee gave her an opportunity to secretly decline the award on grounds of personal danger, and she let them go ahead. So she effectively accepted in advance. This is Google-translated from the web site of a newspaper the regime shut down: [Will María Corina Machado be able to travel to Oslo to receive the Peace Prize?](https://www.elnacional.com/2025/10/maria-corina-machado-podra-viajar-a-oslo-para-recibir-el-premio-de-la-paz/) > [@](#): > > It’s one of the most difficult dilemmas the committee discusses each year with all the candidates, especially when the recipient is living in hiding due to serious threats to their life. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/62 "2025-10-10T18:21:00Z")
If it makes Trump feel any less like a spoiled toddler, I didn’t get a Nobel Peace prize, either. And _I’ve_ never blown up any fishing boats or organized any violent insurrections. UNFAIR! Thank you for your attention to this matter. ---
**Author:** ![LouMa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/louma/32/19472_2.png) [@LouMa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouMa)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/63 "2025-10-10T18:27:30Z")
The disgustingness is unbearable. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/64 "2025-10-10T19:21:35Z")
If you head up the Nobel Peace Prize committee, [this is how you say “Trump doesn’t have courage nor integrity”](https://youtu.be/wrRBGaUwJiQ?t=556) without saying Trump doesn’t have courage nor integrity. Nice job, [Jørgen Watne Frydnes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B8rgen_Watne_Frydnes)! ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/65 "2025-10-10T19:44:23Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I’d be willing to bet that his interest in any conflicts will go from 60 to zero in about a week. The guy who was tasked with finding all the “wars” in countries Trump never heard of lost his job for sure. > [@DMC](#): > > Man, that is well played. It was. But it pisses me off to no end that world leaders know they have to placate Trump to protect their own people and he believes they actually respect him. ---
**Author:** ![Ancient\_Nerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/66 "2025-10-10T19:48:44Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > It was. But it pisses me off to no end that world leaders know they have to placate Trump to protect their own people and he believes they actually respect him. It worked for Zelensky. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/67 "2025-10-10T19:48:45Z")
Can’t they at least give him some kind of participation trophy? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/68 "2025-10-10T19:59:06Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Don’t forget Trump gave Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 🤮 I don’t think there is any implication of that medal being apolitical or ever was, unlike the Nobel Peace Prize. The Medal of Freedom includes among its (very loose) criteria that the person may have made a contribution to “the security or the national interests of the United States”, which is explicitly political. Looking over the history of recipients, you’ll probably find a number of objectionable people no matter what your political viewpoint is. It doesn’t seem like the Medal of Freedom has nearly the kind of prestige or importance of the Nobel Peace Prize, so it’s not a fair comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/69 "2025-10-10T20:23:54Z")
The Nobel Prizes have never been perfect, but then no prize has ever been perfect. So what? If you look at the history of any attempt to choose the best in anything, either over a given time period or ever all history, it’s impossible for any human being or any collection of human beings to be correct all the time about anything. We’re just human beings, not some ultimate authority that’s always omniscient. Again, so what? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/70 "2025-10-10T20:25:29Z")
Anyone who gets bent out of shape for not getting a peace-related award was never worthy of it. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/71 "2025-10-10T20:32:04Z")
Wait until the revenge and retribution comes. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/72 "2025-10-10T20:36:54Z")
Fight my ignorance. Was he even nominated? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/73 "2025-10-10T20:49:12Z")
If I do a search on the question whether Trump was nominated, I get the following statement. The Norwegian Nobel Committee does not officially confirm the names of nominees until 50 years after the prize is awarded. Any information about nominations comes from the nominators themselves. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/74 "2025-10-10T20:53:23Z")
> **[Donald Trump had 'no chance' of winning Nobel Peace Prize](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-10/donald-trump-no-chance-at-winning-peace-prize/105878636)** > > Donald Trump has not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and, despite his persistent claim that he "deserves the prize", experts are not at all surprised he didn't win. > [@](#): > > Mr Trump was nominated by several prominent people within the US, as well as politicians abroad. > > Most recently, and perhaps most notably, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated the US president for the award. > > Other leaders include the Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe, Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. > > Pakistan and Cambodia both said through government statements that they would nominate Mr Trump as well. > > In the US, Claudia Tenney, a Republican Congresswoman from New York, officially nominated the president for his role in the 2020 Abraham Accords, a series of agreements that normalised diplomatic ties between Israel and several Arab states. > > Nominations from Mr Netanyahu and the leaders of Pakistan and Cambodia, for example, were submitted after the January 31 deadline and are therefore ineligible for this year’s prize. MODS: If this is too much for Fair Use, please feel free to trim or edit. Thanks 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/75 "2025-10-10T21:03:51Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > his would-be breakout role in [_Dark Moon Rising_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1231593/), sabotaging his burgeoning career as an action-horror-romance star. Oh, man, action horror romance? I want that to be good. But it doesn’t look like it’s good. I couldn’t even get through the trailer. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/76 "2025-10-10T21:10:39Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > The Nobel Prizes have never been perfect, but then no prize has ever been perfect. So what? If you look at the history of any attempt to choose the best in anything, either over a given time period or ever all history, it’s impossible for any human being or any collection of human beings to be correct all the time about anything. That’s dramatically understating it: > **[The Nobel peace prize has a record of being awarded to controversial nominees](https://theconversation.com/the-nobel-peace-prize-has-a-record-of-being-awarded-to-controversial-nominees-267152)** > > Donald Trump might seem like an unlikely candidate, but previous winners have come in for criticism too. > _Kissinger had been instrumental in the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam in 1973. But he had [also spent much](https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2023/11/expert-blog-henry-kissinger-revered-statesman-or-diplomatic-rogue) of his political and academic career advocating for the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the development of a smaller “battlefield” range – Kissinger’s thesis that nuclear weapons could be used and were not just for deterrence._ > > _He was a key decision-maker in the US’s “secret war” in Laos, which ran parallel to its operations in Vietnam, and in the US military’s invasion of Cambodia in 1970. More broadly, though, Kissinger’s political philosophy of realpolitik – politics based on practical objectives rather than ideals – appeared to have had little care for individual human life and saw global politics as a game between._ > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Can’t they at least give him some kind of participation trophy? I recommend bracelets, chained together so the can’t be lost and closed with a secure, keyed ratcheting clasp so they can’t fall off or be stolen. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/77 "2025-10-10T21:16:43Z")
Or Venice. “Venezuela, that’s where Venice is, isn’t it? Where the moocows come from. Bigly”~~Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/78 "2025-10-10T21:21:17Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > won the Noble Peas Prize I eat my peas with ketchup I’ve done it all my life It makes them taste real funny But it does away with strife ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/79 "2025-10-10T21:30:57Z")
👏 👏 👏 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845/80 "2025-10-10T21:44:36Z")
Trump is so reviled in most of the civilized world that it’s hard to imagine any self-respecting organization awarding him any kind of honour for anything no matter what he does. It’s also hard to imagine that this idiot and his gang of incompetents could legitimately get credit for anything, other than maybe other nations reacting out of fear of their recklessness. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobel-peace-prize-announced-it-doesnt-go-to-trump/1023845.md?page=5)