Rama Krishna Sangem
American President Donald Trump appears to be getting closer to winning Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow, October 10. Friday. All eyes are on the deliberations of Nobel peace prize committee that is in the final stages of finalizing a name. As of now, there are five strong contenders and Trump is one of them. Compared to others in the probables, Trump has bright chances of getting this prestigious prize for 2025.
The Nobel Committee said that there are 338 candidates for this year’s Peace Prize, including 244 persons and 94 organisations. The number of nominees has seen an uptick from last year’s 286 nominations. Besides Trump, the four other strong contenders for the prize are: 1. Elon Musk, former Pakistan PM Imran Khan, Pope Francis and Anwar Ibrahim, PM of Malaysia.
Israel and Hamas’s agreement to the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza deal comes a day before the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 – the coveted prize that the 79-year-old is eyeing – is announced. The White House, consequently, has capitalised on the moment by calling Trump “the peace President” in a well-timed tweet.
Trump has claimed to have played the peacemaker in as many as seven wars, including the four-day conflict between India and Pakistan in May, which New Delhi has time and again dismissed. Furthermore, the US President hosted the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia at the White House in August during the signing of an agreement to end the decades-long conflict between the two nations.
“It’s been a long time coming,” Trump had said of the deal, which will reopen some vital transport routes between Azerbaijan and Armenia and increase US influence in the region. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan shook hands after Trump described the moment to be “historic” and was pictured smiling gleefully.
The US President, meanwhile, has never fallen short of taking digs in his Nobel Peace Prize pursuit. In his latest jibe, he said perhaps the Nobel Committee will find a way to not give him the prize.
“I settled 7 wars”: Trump
“I have no idea… Marco would tell you we settled seven wars. We’re close to settling an eighth. I think we’ll end up settling the Russia situation… I don’t think anybody in history has settled that many. But perhaps they’ll find a reason not to give it to me,” he told conservative influencers in the White House’s Blue Room during a roundtable on Antifa – an anti-fascist movement he recently designated as a terrorist organisation – a few hours before announcing on Truth Social about the breakthrough in the Gaza plan.
