Nobel Peace Prize goes to María Corina Machado, despite calls for Trump to win

The Nobel Committee awarded this 12 months’s peace prize to María Corina Machado, amid requires President Donald Trump to simply accept the prize within the wake of his brokering of a historic deal between Israel and Hamas.

Trump has obtained a number of high-profile nominations since returning to workplace. Nonetheless, the committee’s nomination deadline was January 31, which means he might be eligible for subsequent 12 months’s award.

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President Donald Trump factors to a reporter within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, Tuesday, September 30, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Alex Brandon/The Related Press)

Throughout a Cupboard assembly on Thursday, Trump was requested concerning the Nobel Peace Prize, however he didn’t touch upon the award in his response. As an alternative, he centered on the chance to deal with the Israeli Knesset.

Earlier this week, the Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board, a gaggle representing the households of hostages and terror victims based after October 7, appealed to the committee on Trump’s behalf.

“Over the previous 12 months, no chief or group has contributed extra to peace around the globe than President Trump. Whereas many have spoken eloquently about peace, he has achieved it. Whereas others have made empty guarantees, he has delivered tangible outcomes which have saved numerous lives,” the discussion board wrote in an Oct. 6 letter to the committee.

“He did not simply discuss peace – he introduced it,” the discussion board added.

Hostage households in Washington after receiving information of President Trump’s announcement of a deal that may carry all hostages house. (Liri Agami and Alon Kaplun)

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TRUMP GREAT AS A PEACE DEAL WORTH NOBEL PRIZE FOR ‘HISTORIC’ ISRAEL-HAMAS PEACE AGREEMENT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed Trump in July throughout a go to to Washington DC that he had nominated the president for the Nobel Peace Prize. Netanyahu handed the letter he despatched to the committee to Trump when he informed him the information.

“The president has already realized nice alternatives. He solid the Abraham Accords. Proper now he’s forging peace in a single nation and one area after one other,” Netanyahu stated. “So I want to current to you, Mr. President, the letter I despatched to the Nobel Prize Committee. You might be nominated for the peace prize, which is properly deserved.’

Weeks previous to that assembly, the US and Israel carried out main operations that destroyed Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, as each international locations warned {that a} nuclear Tehran could be a risk to the world.

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Trump has been nominated for the award prior to now, however was not chosen. Notably, U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., nominated Trump for the award in 2020 when he brokered the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and Arab international locations.

Had he gained, Trump would have turn out to be the fifth US president to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Earlier laureates embody former President Barack Obama, former President Jimmy Carter, former President Woodrow Wilson and former President Theodore Roosevelt.

Fox Information Digital’s Greg Wehner and Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.