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Trump Officially Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize After ’12 Day War’

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President Donald Trump may finally get his long-held wish: a Nobel Peace Prize for delivering peace to the Middle East.

At the very least, he’s been nominated for the prestigious award, famously given to peacemakers throughout history. Trump in recent days has extolled the virtues of peace between Israel and Iran while working to keep a fragile ceasefire agreement intact.

Now, he’s being recognized for his hard work by a member of Congress.

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) credits Trump with alleviating tensions between the Jewish and Islamic nations after back-to-back barrages of missile attacks lasting 12 days. In his estimation, his fellow Republican should have won the Nobel Peace Prize during his first term for solidifying the historic Abraham Accords, which led to Israel being formally recognized by other Middle East states for the first time in history.

Trump, Carter said in a statement, has played an “extraordinary and historic role” in having ended “the armed conflict between Israel and Iran and preventing the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism from obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet.”

On Monday, President Trump announced that he had brokered a ceasefire agreement that would halt further attacks between Iran and Israel. The deal came just hours after Iran launched a flurry of missiles at a U.S. base in Qatar, a retaliation for Trump’s decision to bomb three nuclear enrichment facilities on Sunday.

“President Trump’s influence was instrumental in forging a swift agreement that many believed to be impossible. President Trump also took bold, decisive actions to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions and ensure that the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism remains incapable of acquiring a nuclear weapon,” Carter wrote in his letter, obtained by Fox News.

He said Trump’s leadership through the crisis “exemplifies the very ideals that the Nobel Peace Prize seeks to recognize: the pursuit of peace, the prevention of war, and the advancement of international harmony. In a region plagued by historical animosity and political volatility, such a breakthrough demands both courage and clarity.”

“President Trump demonstrated both, offering the world a rare glimpse of hope. For these reasons, I respectfully submit this nomination for Donald J. Trump, 47th President of the United States, to be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize,” Carter finished.

Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize will be accepted until Jan. 31, 2026, at which point a committee will convene to narrow down a short list of submissions and make their selection. The screening and decision-making process can take as long as eight months, according to the award’s website.

The 2024 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was shared between members of the Nihon Hidankyo, a group of H-bomb survivors advocating for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Carter’s nomination builds on an earlier one by Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA), who nominated Trump for his “astonishingly effective impact” on peace in the world.

There have been 338 individuals nominated so far for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Fox News reports.