(DailyAnswer.org) – Former president and 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by New York Republican Representative Claudia Tenney. The nomination was based on Trump’s role in overseeing a 2020 Abraham Accords agreement between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain that emphasized their joint opposition to Iran. Tenney told Fox News that Trump had played an instrumental role in facilitating the first new peace agreement in the Middle East in nearly three decades. Tenney argued that Trump had overseen the downfall of ISIS and that this contrasted with the “global chaos” seen under President Joe Biden’s administration.
Trump’s track record has not always been peaceful, however; after Iranian IRGC commander Qasem Soleimani was assassinated in Iraq in January 2020, a UN expert commented that the strike on the general violated international law. Tensions escalated with Iran as a direct result, as Iran launched missiles at America’s bases in Iraq in an act more symbolic than it was deadly.
Iraq voted to expel American troops from the country in January 2020, stating that if they did not leave, they would be considered occupying forces. Under Biden, however, American forces have been attacked 23 times in Iraq and Syria since the war escalated in Gaza in late 2023. In 2017, it was reported that Trump was dropping bombs at record levels. Though Biden has been accused of violating international law himself by ordering strikes on Yemen in February 2024, strikes carried out by US forces fell by 54% in his first year of office compared to Trump’s last.
Trump is not the only president to attract controversy for a Nobel Peace Prize nomination; the Nobel secretary, Geir Lundestad, said in 2015 that awarding Barack Obama the Peace Prize in 2009 was a mistake. The verified X account Big-Brain Politics asked why, if Obama deserved a peace prize, Trump did not deserve one for not starting a single war. The UK-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism noted Obama’s reliance on drone strikes compared to Trump, claiming that there were ten times more airstrikes under his administration than there were under George W. Bush. Tucker Carlson suggested that Washington wants to imprison Trump because of his condemnation of several wars, noting that during the 2016 Republican primary, he claimed that the invasion of Iraq was based on lies about weapons of mass destruction.
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