President Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) making the announcement on X Monday morning. “Today I will nominate @realDonaldTrump for the Nobel Peace Prize. No one deserves it more,” Issa wrote in a post that quickly gained traction online.
The decision to nominate Trump comes after a tense meeting last week, during which he reportedly asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to leave the Oval Office following a heated exchange over U.S. military aid. Trump later stated that Zelenskyy had “disrespected” the United States, suggesting that Ukraine was leveraging American support rather than making a genuine effort to achieve peace. Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize is expected to serve as a symbolic endorsement of his non-interventionist stance, reinforcing his campaign’s emphasis on an “America First” approach during his second term.
A spokesperson for Issa also highlighted Trump’s endeavors to foster peace in the Middle East. “Congressman Issa recently led a Congressional delegation to four Middle East nations—he observed first-hand and from several heads of state that the spirit of peace and moving away from conflict is real and multilateral,” said Jonathan Wilcox, Issa’s deputy chief of staff and communications director, in remarks to The Hill.
Wilcox added, “From the time of his election and after being sworn in, President Trump has inspired and promoted the cause of peace—and in a way we have not heard in many years. His advocacy is an aspiration of a world without war, and we are seeing this come into focus in several regions of the world today – not just one.”
Issa is not alone in this view. Secretary of State Marco Rubio strongly endorsed President Trump’s strategy for negotiating a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia during a Sunday interview. ?In the interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Rubio suggested that Trump’s peace efforts would receive widespread acclaim if he were a Democrat. Amid a heated discussion with host George Stephanopoulos, Rubio said, “Shouldn’t we all be happy that we have a president who’s trying to stop wars and prevent them instead of start them?”
“I just don’t get it. I really don’t, other than the fact that it’s Donald J. Trump,” Rubio said. “If this was a Democrat that was doing this, everyone would be saying, ‘Well, he’s on his way to the Nobel Peace Prize.’ This is absurd. We are trying to end a war,” Rubio explained. “You cannot end a war unless both sides come to the table, starting with the Russians. And that, that is the point the president has made. And we have to do whatever we can to try to bring them to the table to see if it’s even possible.”
