# 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:** 5
**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:** [August 2, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/81 "2025-08-02T11:49:49Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > He’s the Peace President! According to Leavett, he’s brokered peace deals all around the world. Economic pressure makes these countries jump. Like when I got a medal from the fire department for putting out a house fire and getting the family to safety after I set their house on fire in hopes of getting a medal for putting it out and saving their lives. Trump’s ‘brokered’ a lot of those types of deals. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/82 "2025-08-02T11:53:12Z")
Actually, that should’ve been “Greenland, Canada, and _Panama”_. But Mexico better watch it, too. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/83 "2025-08-04T20:23:06Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Is that list just the peace prize or all of them? Politics aside would a physics professor be all that qualified to nominate someone for the medicine prize or vice versa? No, there is a small select list of who can nominate for any science prize. Literature is looser, and the Peace is pretty wide open- as @Northern_Piper psted.. Which is why just getting _nominated_ for say the Prize in Chemistry is quite a honor. Getting nominated for the peace prize is nothing. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/84 "2025-08-05T02:29:15Z")
The only one I know about is Economics. And in Economics you get a form and are asked to nominate. I’ve gotten the form and used it 3 times. I declined the 4th as I had been retired for several years. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/85 "2025-08-15T16:47:18Z")
There’s a headline today about how Hillary Clinton wants to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize if he can successfully negotiate an end to the Ukraine war: > **[Clinton says she’d nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize if he ends Ukraine war](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hillary-clinton-says-she-d-144452645.html)** > > Clinton, a longtime rival of Trump’s, said she would personally nominate the president for the elusive price if he brokered a peace deal that did not ‘capitulate’ to Putin Although she seems sincere enough in the article, I have to wonder if this is a masterful display of trolling with the intention of making Trump not want a Nobel Peace Prize. She is telling him to stand up to Putin if he wants the shiny thing as a reward but she must know that there’s no way he’ll actually do it. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/86 "2025-08-15T17:15:08Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > There’s a headline today about how Hillary Clinton wants to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize if he can successfully negotiate an end to the Ukraine war: Hillary Clinton is just as narcissistic as Donald Trump (if not as overtly contemptuous of everyone and not nearly as racist) and just desperately wants a bit of spotlight from the Demagogue of the Day. Ugh. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/87 "2025-08-15T17:29:14Z")
The quote from Secretary Clinton, “If he could end it, without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor, had to, in a way, validate Putin’s vision of greater Russia, but instead could really stand up to Putin…. I’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.” And I am no fan of Donald Trump, but I have to agree. Though it seems _really_ unlikely he will do so. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/88 "2025-08-15T17:40:11Z")
Basically, she’s saying, “There is no fucking way I would every nominate a yoke like Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize,” while actually seeming to say the opposite. And then her supporters wonder why almost nobody believes anything she says. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/89 "2025-08-15T17:43:48Z")
Like a lot of politicians today, Clinton is speaking to an audience of one. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/90 "2025-08-15T17:46:57Z")
It really doesn’t matter what she says; she’s pretty much irrelevant. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/91 "2025-08-15T20:31:14Z")
Well, she got a major news org to cover what she said, so that proves she is no such thing, ---
**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:** [August 15, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/92 "2025-08-15T20:50:00Z")
I mean, she’s not wrong. A statement of the form “If A, then B”, is true, if A is always false. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/93 "2025-08-18T19:38:22Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > He’s the Peace President! Yeah. In the presser today he referred to stopping wars like it’s his hobby. Trump kept referring to his 6 successes. Well let’s see - Afghanistan if he takes credit for the pullout - then what? Perhaps the unconditional surrender of Iran? ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/94 "2025-08-18T20:03:56Z")
Do the Ig Nobel people do a 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:** [August 18, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/95 "2025-08-18T20:18:27Z")
They have more integrity than to give a prize to an autocrat with fascist tendencies. Unlike, say, the Norwegian Nobel Committee. 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:** [August 18, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/96 "2025-08-18T20:36:58Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > Do the Ig Nobel people do a peace prize? > [@Joey\_P](#): > > Like this? > **[Ig Nobel Prize](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize?useskin=vector)** > > 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#?useskin=vector)** > > 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 ... ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/97 "2025-08-18T20:51:19Z")
Yeah perhaps the laugh and think thing doesn’t apply here. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/98 "2025-08-18T22:59:36Z")
[Alfred Nobel stipulated that it was to be awarded to the person “who shall 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 congresses”.](https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/nobel-peace-prize/about-the-nobel-peace-prize/) Given these criteria, a case can be made for giving the prize to [President Macron, Prime Minister Meloni, Chancellor Merz, Prime Minister Starmer, President Stubb, Prime Minister Tusk, President Costa, and President von der Leyen](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/08/16/statement-by-president-macron-prime-minister-meloni-chancellor-merz-prime-minister-starmer-president-stubb-prime-minister-tusk-president-costa-president-von-der-leyen/). At extremely short notice they dropped all their other urgent responsibilities to attend today a peace congress not directly involving their own nation. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/99 "2025-08-18T23:10:56Z")
Even if by some miracle Trump manages to end the Ukrainian war tomorrow, he’s _still_ not going to get the Nobel Peace Prize this year, as it’s just too late. Still, I’d love to be a fly on the wall when the announcement is made, just to see how much he freaks out. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948/100 "2025-08-22T19:39:33Z")
> [@Crane](#): > > Yeah. In the presser today he referred to stopping wars like it’s his hobby. Trump kept referring to his 6 successes. Well let’s see - Afghanistan if he takes credit for the pullout - then what? Perhaps the unconditional surrender of Iran? [AP breaks down the claim here](https://apnews.com/article/trump-peace-wars-claim-fact-check-10128b26232e1d1eb9e68c5617320cf3). A couple are at least semi-legitimate examples of Trump brokering an end to an active conflict, but most are either exaggerating Trump’s importance, or just flat-out bullshit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-to-be-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/1019948.md?page=6)