Throughout his second term, President Trump has campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize. The president, his allies and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have renewed the push since Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a peace plan Trump proposed last month.
The honor, first awarded in 1901 to France’s Frédéric Passy and Sweden’s Jean Henry Dunant, has been given to four American presidents: Barack Obama in 2009, Jimmy Carter in 2002, Woodrow Wilson in 1919 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.
Ahead of Friday’s announcement of this year’s laureate, here are five things to know about the Nobel Peace Prize.
According to the Nobel Peace Prize’s website, individuals can be nominated for the award until Jan. 31.
Nominations are then given to the Nobel Committee in mid-February, with the body compiling a short list of candidates. Advisers to the committee provide reports on short list nominees by the end of April.
From then until the end of September, the committee narrows the field of nominees “to a very small group,” according to the prize’s website.
Any living individual and active organization can be nominated, preferably via an online form on the prize’s website. In total, 244 individuals and 94 organizations were nominated for the 2025 award.
During the committee’s first meeting after the nomination deadline has passed, members may add their own nominees.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee consists of five members appointed by the Storting, the Norwegian legislature. Committee members, who are appointed to six-year terms, cannot be in government.
The five members of the committee are human rights advocate Jørgen Watne Frydnes, foreign policy scholar Asle Toje, former acting Norwegian Prime Minister Anne Enger, former Norwegian Minister of Education Kristin Clemet, and former Norwegian Foreign Affairs Secretary Gry Larsen.
Frydnes chairs the committee, with Toje serving as vice chair.
The president has been endorsed by multiple politicians for the Nobel Peace Prize, all of which came after the Jan. 31 deadline.
In June, the Pakistani government nominated Trump after his administration mediated a ceasefire between India and Pakistan in May.
While visiting the White House in July, Netayanhu presented Trump a letter nominating him for the prize after the U.S. brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. The Israeli leader doubled down on his push Thursday, with Argentinian President Javier Milei backing the effort.
On Wednesday, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) sent a letter to the committee endorsing Trump for the award. Republican Reps. Buddy Carter (Ga.) and Darrell Issa (Calif.) also nominated Trump in June and March, respectively.
Yes, as any living individual is eligible.
If Trump were to win, he would be the fifth American president, and the first since Obama, to do so. Other world leaders to have won the award include Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in 2019, former South African President Nelson Mandela in 1993, and former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990.
Updated on Oct. 10 at 4:53 a.m. EDT