President Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times, sometimes by multiple people in the same year. Most people said he should receive the prize for his efforts in the Middle East and his attempts to keep the United States out of long-term conflicts.
Certain qualifications must be met to be nominated, usually including job titles in government leadership or university professorships. Trump was first nominated anonymously in 2016 for his “peace through strength ideology.”
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Here is everyone who has nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) — 2025
Carter nominated President Donald Trump on Thursday for his role in the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran. Carter wrote a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Tuesday, nominating Trump “in recognition of his extraordinary and historic role in brokering an end to the armed conflict between Israel and Iran.”
Carter’s letter comes three days after the ceasefire was negotiated, which some media outlets have warned is fragile. Minutes into the deal, the ceasefire was temporarily broken because neither country was informed enough about its status. However, the ceasefire has held since.
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) — 2025
Moreno also nominated Trump for his handling of Iran-related tensions. Moreno introduced a resolution in the Senate on Wednesday that “call[ed] on” the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award Trump the prize for striking Iran’s nuclear program and ending the fighting soon after.
Moreno also commented on former President Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize in 2009 in a post on X, saying, “Obama won the Nobel, then he killed hundreds of civilians and did nothing to stop Forever Wars.”
The Pakistani government — 2025
Pakistan posted Friday on X that it was nominating Trump for his part in the ceasefire negotiations between it and India at the beginning of May. While the ceasefire was attributed to Trump by himself and Pakistan, India did not support the claim.
However, Pakistan has since posted on X condemning the U.S.’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, saying that Iran has the right to defend itself and that the attacks “violate all norms of international law.”
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) — 2025
In March 2025, Issa nominated Trump as the best president for peace “since Ronald Reagan,” citing the Abraham Accords and Trump’s efforts in the Middle East.
In his letter to the council, Issa said Trump started “cooling tensions, establishing dialogue, and encouraging the flourishing of freedom in practically every corner of the world and on behalf of the cause of peace.”
Ukrainian MP, Oleksandr Merezhko — 2024
The head of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Foreign Committee nominated Trump in November 2024. However, Merezhko withdrew his nomination on Tuesday due to the slowing of ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine. Merezhko said he has “lost any sort of faith” in Trump and his negotiation tactics.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has consistently rejected ceasefires that Ukraine has agreed to, leaving Trump frustrated as he has said negotiations have been more difficult than he originally anticipated.
“[Putin] called the other day, and he said, ‘Can I help you with Iran?’ I said, ‘No, you can help me with Russia,’” Trump said at the NATO summit on Wednesday.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) — 2024
Tenney nominated Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for their work on the Abraham Accords. In a statement, Tenney said their “work to combat terrorism and stand up to Islamist regimes has directly led to greater regional and global stability.”
Tenney mentioned the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that many people thought peace in the Middle East would not be possible without peace in this specific conflict. The Abraham Accords in 2019 were an agreement between Israel, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and Sudan to establish diplomatic relations.
Finnish MP, Laura Huhtasaari — 2021
Huhtasaari, a right-wing representative of the Finnish Parliament, nominated Trump in 2021 for his “endeavors to end the era of endless wars” and his overall efforts to keep peace abroad.
Huhtasaari cited the Abraham Accords as one of the peacekeeping accomplishments of Trump’s first administration. More broadly, she said, “Trump has served almost a complete presidential term without starting a new war.”
Australian law professors — 2020
David Flint was one of four professors who nominated Trump based on “the Trump Doctrine,” which he said is “no longer have America in endless wars, wars which achieve nothing but the killing of thousands of young Americans.”
Flint said the U.S. tends to get involved in “any and every war,” but Trump has changed that.
Swedish MP, Magnus Jacobsson — 2020
Jacobsson also cited Trump’s efforts in the Middle East as well as his efforts in cooling tensions between Kosovo and Serbia during the Balkan War as his reasons for nominating Trump. The president personally called Jacobsson after he nominated him to thank him, according to the Associated Press.
Norwegian MP, Christian Tybring-Gjedde — 2018, 2020
Tybring-Gjedde, a right-wing Norwegian politician, also cited the Abraham Accords for his second of two nominations. He said Trump “has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other peace prize nominees.”
Tybring-Gjedde, who is not a Trump supporter, said during the process that “the committee should look at the facts and judge him on the facts, not on the way he behaves sometimes.”
In 2018, he nominated Trump in partnership with another Norwegian lawmaker.
Former Republican Indiana Rep. Luke Messer and colleagues — 2019
Messer got 17 lawmakers to sign his nomination letter for Trump to the committee. In the letter, they cited Trump’s efforts in getting North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un to give up nuclear weapons as their reason for the nomination.
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During the nomination, Trump got North Korea to suspend its nuclear testing. Messer said in the letter that he “can think of no one more deserving of the Committee’s recognition in 2019 than President Trump for his tireless work to bring peace to our world.”
Norwegian MP, Per-Willy Amundsen — 2018
Amundsen, a right-leaning Norwegian lawmaker, was among the first to nominate Trump, which he did alongside Tybring-Gjedde. They cited the temporary disarmament of North Korea as their reason for the joint nomination.