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JUST IN: World Leaders Erupt Into Applause After Trump Receives Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
Dozens of world leaders and senior officials erupted into applause when Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif nominated President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2026 due to his efforts to negotiate the historic peace agreement in the Israel-Gaza conflict, which ended the bloody, two-year war and secured the release of all living hostages abducted by Hamas during the October 7 attacks in 2023.
President Trump shook hands with dozens of world leaders, including key NATO allies and regional partners tasked with monitoring compliance of the peace plan, at the global summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday. The summit was convened in order to formalize the peace deal and discuss key provisions of Gaza’s future.
Among those gathered for the summit were Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and former prime minister Tony Blair, as well as officials from Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey.
The group posed for a photo in front of a banner reading “Peace 2025” before a formal signing ceremony. President Trump, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani then formally signed the document while other world leaders were seated behind them.
“This took 3,000 years to get to this point. Can you believe it? And it’s going to hold up too. It’s going to hold up,” Trump said while signing the document.
President Donald Trump signs the 20-point peace agreement in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
During the signing ceremony, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif nominated President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize during an impromptu address.
“Today is one of the greatest days in contemporary history because peace has been achieved after untiring efforts, led by President Trump, who is genuinely a man of peace, who has relentlessly worked throughout this month to make this world a place to live with peace and prosperity,” Sharif said, drawing applause from world leaders.
He went on to praise the American president for helping to negotiate a ceasefire to the clashes between India and Pakistan that saw military strikes launched on each side. “This is because he has brought not only peace in South Asia, saved the lives of millions of people there—India and Pakistan being nuclear powers, without his intervention the war could have escalated to such a level who would have lived to tell what happened—and today here in Sharm el-Sheikh, achieving peace in Gaza is saving millions of lives in the Middle East,” he said.
Sharif then once again reiterated that Pakistan would be nominating Trump and his “wonderful team” for their efforts to negotiate the ceasefire.
Upon taking the podium, President Trump stated that he had been engaged in lengthy discussions with regional partners on the rebuilding process in Gaza. Under the terms of the agreement, Hamas must relinquish control of the Gaza Strip and demilitarize.
“Now, the rebuilding begins. The rebuilding is maybe going to be the easiest part. I think we’ve done a lot of the hardest part because the rest comes together. We all know how to rebuild, and we know how to build better than anybody in the world,” Trump said.
The president also left the door open to future peace agreements with Iran and other U.S. adversaries. “We are ready when you are and it will be the best decision that Iran has ever made, and it’s going to happen,” he said, repeating what he said during his speech before the Israeli Knesset.
