# Trump to be nominated for Nobel Peace Prize **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [June 21, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948 "2025-06-21T20:14:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/21 "2025-06-22T18:53:08Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Some of the people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in the past are Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Rush Limbaugh, Benito Mussolini, Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin, Elon Musk, and Michael Jackson. I kinda doubt this. The list of nominees is kept secret for 50 years. If someone actually nominated Musk or Rush Limbaugh, and this is publicly known, then those who did the nomination were breaching a privilege and the Nobel Foundation is very stuffy about that. The list of nominees up to 1974 is public. And regarding Hitler (nominated in 1939) we can find this > The nomination was withdrawn 1 February 1939 by nominator E.G.C. Brandt1, an anti-fascist member of the Swedish parliament who never intended his submission to be taken seriously. 1 Who nominated him with this motivation: > Hitler was the leader of the German Nationalist Socialist Party It seems trolling is not a new phenomenon. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/22 "2025-06-22T19:08:28Z")
I once worked with a fellow who was nominated for a notable industry award. The radio station made a big deal about it. He recorded a promo saying how “honored” he was to be nominated. Then we found out he had nominated himself. Trump can’t nominate himself for a Nobel Peace Prize but he can make it worthwhile for someone else to do it for him. Like Pakistan. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/23 "2025-06-22T19:14:33Z")
> [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > If someone actually nominated Musk or Rush Limbaugh, and this is publicly known The nomination of Limbaugh was in 2007 by something called the Landmark Legal Foundation, whose president is Mark Levin. However, it was not considered a valid nomination. According to the Nobel Prize [website](https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/), > A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. And > There are 338 candidates nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, of which 244 are individuals and 94 are organisations. So while the list of nominees is indeed kept secret, most anybody can submit a nomination and then brag about it, even if it’s not considered valid. For the record, the criteria for submitting a valid nomination is, again according the above link: 1. Members of national assemblies and national governments (cabinet members/ministers) of sovereign states as well as current heads of state 2. Members of The International Court of Justice in The Hague and The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague 3. Members of l’Institut de Droit International 4. Members of the International Board of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom 5. University professors, professors emeriti and associate professors of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion; university rectors and university directors (or their equivalents); directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes 6. Persons who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 7. Members of the main board of directors or its equivalent of organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 8. Current and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee (proposals by current members of the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first meeting of the Committee after 1 February) 9. Former advisers to the Norwegian Nobel Committee ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/24 "2025-06-22T19:29:09Z")
The Peace Prize is such a joke anyways. In addition to the people/organizations that have gotten it, have not gotten it and been nominated for it, if Trump won it would illicit a yawn except for the professional recreational-outragers. Remember Obama won it just for not being George W. Bush. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/25 "2025-06-22T19:44:04Z")
> [@Charlie\_Tan](#): > > I kinda doubt this. The Wikipedia entries about Peace nominees confirms that Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Musk, and Mussolini were nominated: > **[List of individuals nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (1900–1999)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individuals_nominated_for_the_Nobel_Peace_Prize_(1900%E2%80%931999))** > > The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and industrialist, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. Since March 1901, it has been awarded annually (with some exceptions) to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresse > **[List of individuals nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2000–present)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individuals_nominated_for_the_Nobel_Peace_Prize_(2000%E2%80%93present))** > > The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established according to the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and industrialist, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. It is awarded annually (with some exceptions) by the Norwegian Nobel Committee to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion... I’ll leave it up to you to figure out how they could possibly know about the ones in the past 50 years. ---
**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:** [June 22, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/26 "2025-06-22T19:53:34Z")
Trump cannot win the Nobel Peace Prize for the simple reason that the Nobel committee recognizes as well as anyone that Trump is a blight upon the earth. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/27 "2025-06-22T20:11:46Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > He is absolutely desperate to get that award. The fact that Obama got the award is likely a major reason for this. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I think Trump’s coveted Nobel Peace Prize just flew out the window. As if he had any chance of winning before the bombs started dropping. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/28 "2025-06-22T20:36:09Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > The fact that Obama got the award is likely a major reason for this. Plus, there’s a cash prize. Trump is rumored to like money. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/29 "2025-06-23T05:48:08Z")
Leopard-eating Faces, International Division: > **[Pakistan condemns Trump for bombing Iran a day after recommending him for a...](https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-trump-nobel-iran-bombing-c841ba1ae625d268b1ad83d99c8723a4)** > > Pakistan has condemned U.S. President Donald Trump for bombing Iran, less than 24 hours after saying he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for defusing a recent crisis with India. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/30 "2025-07-01T03:30:02Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Leopard-eating Faces, International Division: You can’t make stuff like this up. The Onion has a major competitor in real news. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/31 "2025-07-01T06:05:21Z")
Don’t forget Bob Geldof. CNN is doing a 40th anniversary of Live Aid, which caused a lot more problems than it could ever have solved. Good concerts, however. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/32 "2025-07-01T06:18:24Z")
Could someone invent an igNobel Peace Prize? ---
**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:** [July 1, 2025, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/33 "2025-07-01T06:29:20Z")
Like elementary bosons with zero electric charge and spin of 1, the Nobel Peace Prize is really its own anti-prize, awarded equally to great humanitarians and promulgators of mass murder. Stranger ---
**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:** [July 1, 2025, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/34 "2025-07-01T07:05:36Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > caused a lot more problems than it could ever have solved Give me a precise measure of the benefits of the problems it solved and the disadvantages of the problems it caused. Compare those two measurements. Which is larger? > [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > the Nobel Peace Prize is really its own anti-prize, awarded equally to great humanitarians and promulgators of mass murder Give me a complete list of the humanitarians and the promulgators of mass murder that it has been awarded to. Create a measurement of the benefits and the disadvantages that can be compared on the same scale. Show me that the sum of the two things equals exactly zero. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2025, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/35 "2025-07-01T07:21:46Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Give me a complete list of the humanitarians and the promulgators of mass murder that it has been awarded to. Create a measurement of the benefits and the disadvantages that can be compared on the same scale. Show me that the sum of the two things equals exactly zero. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YEwlW5sHQ4Q/maxresdefault.jpg "YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEwlW5sHQ4Q) Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/36 "2025-07-01T12:07:14Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > Could someone invent an igNobel Peace Prize? Like this? > **[Ig Nobel Prize](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize)** > > The Ig Nobel Prize (/ˌɪɡ noʊˈbɛl/) is a satirical prize awarded annually since 1991 to promote public engagement with scientific research. Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize, which it parodies, and on the word "ignoble". > Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), the Ig Nobel Prizes are presented by Nobel laureates in a ceremony at the Massachusetts Ins... > **[List of Ig Nobel Prize winners](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#)** > > A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think". Commenting on the 2006 awards, Marc Abrahams, editor of Annals of Improbable Research and co-sponsor of the awards, said that "\[t\]he prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative, and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and ... Edit: I see Trump already has one in medicine for using the Covid-19 crises “to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/37 "2025-07-01T12:18:17Z")
It makes him crazy that Obama got a Nobel. He’s obsessed by it. And when he doesn’t win one, he’ll be telling the world what a meaningless nothing the Nobel Prize is. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/38 "2025-07-01T13:11:33Z")
Even if the official list of nominees is kept secret, the set of people who can nominate is so expansive that it’s a near-certainty that Trump (and Putin and Netanyahu and Khamenei and Biden and Harris and pretty much every other prominent politician you can think of) has already been nominated. Trump can’t nominate himself, but Vance or Boebert or Noem or plenty of other people could. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/39 "2025-07-01T14:20:30Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > It makes him crazy that Obama got a Nobel. He’s obsessed by it. And when he doesn’t win one, he’ll be telling the world what a meaningless nothing the Nobel Prize is. I saw someone say (and I know this isn’t a thing) that they should give it to Obama again, just to piss off Trump. Regarding the nominations being secret, ISTM that means pretty much anyone can _say_ they nominated him without actually doing so, right? I wouldn’t be surprised if tons of RW politicians will suck up to him by telling him they nominated him. Wait, does the person being nominated get any of the details about who nominated them? I mean, even if they do, those people can say they nominated him but the woke nobel prize people must have removed the nomination. He’d absolutely believe that. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/40 "2025-07-01T14:29:58Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > the Nobel Peace Prize is really its own anti-prize, awarded equally to great humanitarians and promulgators of mass murder So when you say this, you don’t actually care if it’s true. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948.md?page=3)