WASHINGTON (BN24) — President Donald Trump has been officially nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize following his role in securing a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, a conflict he dubbed the “12 Day War.”
Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., submitted the nomination in a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Tuesday, praising Trump’s “extraordinary and historic role in brokering an end to the armed conflict between Israel and Iran and preventing the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism from obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet.”
“President Trump’s influence was instrumental in forging a swift agreement that many believed to be impossible,” Carter wrote. “His leadership at this moment exemplifies the very ideals that the Nobel Peace Prize seeks to recognize: the pursuit of peace, the prevention of war, and the advancement of international harmony. In a region plagued by historical animosity and political volatility, such a breakthrough demands both courage and clarity. President Trump demonstrated both.”
The ceasefire, announced late Monday by Trump, followed a wave of escalating violence and included U.S. airstrikes on three major Iranian nuclear sites in support of Israeli operations. Though full details of the ceasefire have not been released, both sides have since declared military objectives achieved, and the White House has cast the outcome as a major diplomatic success.
Despite the nomination, Trump appeared skeptical about his chances of receiving the prestigious international award. “I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do,” he wrote Friday on Truth Social, referencing past achievements he believes were similarly overlooked — including U.S. mediation in conflicts between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, India and Pakistan, and Serbia and Kosovo.
“I should have gotten it four or five times,” Trump continued. “They won’t give me a Nobel Peace Prize because they only give it to liberals.”
Trump has previously touted the 2020 Abraham Accords, in which his administration brokered normalization agreements between Israel and four Arab nations — the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco — as one of his administration’s most significant foreign policy victories.
Only three sitting U.S. presidents have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Republican Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the prize in 1906 for mediating peace between Russia and Japan. Democratic Presidents Woodrow Wilson (1919) and Barack Obama (2009) also received the honor — the latter within his first year in office, a decision that sparked criticism, including from Trump and other Republicans.
“Among the reasons it gave,” the Nobel Prize organization says of Obama’s award, “the Nobel Committee lauded Obama for his ‘extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples’” and for promoting the vision of a world free from nuclear weapons.
Former President Jimmy Carter won the prize in 2002 for decades of diplomatic work, and former Vice President Al Gore received the award in 2007 for his advocacy on climate change.
Trump’s recent nomination adds to a string of previous recommendations he has received for the Nobel Peace Prize during and after his first term, though none resulted in a win.
