It\u2019s not the news Donald Trump wanted to hear this morning. The U.S. President, who had been loudly declaring himself the world\u2019s greatest peacemaker, has been snubbed by the Norwegian Nobel Committee\u2014which instead awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader celebrated for her fearless fight for democracy.<\/p>\n
While Trump\u2019s team had spent weeks stoking speculation that his diplomatic \u201csuccesses\u201d might finally earn him the coveted honour, the committee made no mention of him during the announcement in Oslo. Chair Jorgen Watne Frydnes hailed Machado as \u201ca brave and committed champion of peace, a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n
The silence on Trump\u2019s name was deafening\u2014and, according to insiders, likely to spark another trademark outburst from the Oval Office. The President is yet to comment, but officials in Washington reportedly expect a familiar social media tirade to follow soon.<\/p>\n
The \u2018Peace President\u2019 That Wasn\u2019t<\/strong><\/p>\n Trump has long boasted that he \u201cstopped seven wars\u201d and transformed the White House into \u201cthe world\u2019s peace hub.\u201d His aides even launched an informal campaign branding him \u201cThe Peace President,\u201d complete with photo ops and hashtags.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, the White House\u2019s official account shared a photograph of Trump strolling down a hallway in a blue suit and yellow tie with the caption, \u201cThe Peace President.\u201d The move now appears awkwardly premature.<\/p>\n The President has claimed credit for attempting to mediate conflicts from Russia\u2013Ukraine to Israel\u2013Hamas, and even boasted of halting wars between countries including India and Pakistan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Armenia and Azerbaijan. India, however, publicly refuted his claim of having \u201cstopped\u201d a war in May, stating the ceasefire came only after Pakistan\u2019s military sought de-escalation.<\/p>\n A Prize Beyond His Reach<\/strong><\/p>\n Despite months of self-promotion, experts had long dismissed Trump\u2019s chances of winning. \u201cThe Nobel Committee tends to reward sustained, multilateral peacebuilding, not short-term diplomatic theatre,\u201d said Theo Zenou, a historian at the Henry Jackson Society.<\/p>\n Even Trump seemed to anticipate rejection. In July, he had complained: \u201cNo, I won\u2019t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do\u2026 but the people know, and that\u2019s all that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n The Real Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Maria Corina Machado, the woman who beat him to the honour, continues to live in hiding in Venezuela after being barred from contesting elections against President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Her recognition, Frydnes said, represents \u201ca salute to courage in the face of dictatorship.\u201d<\/p>\n Nobel Drama and History<\/strong><\/p>\n The Nobel announcement itself had a cinematic flair. The Committee released a short video showing Frydnes adjusting his suit and tie before stepping out to a packed press hall to declare: \u201cThe Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 goes to a brave and committed champion of peace\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Machado joins a long line of peace laureates that includes four former U.S. presidents\u2014Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama. Trump has frequently compared himself to them, especially Obama, once scoffing, \u201cHe got it for doing nothing!\u201d<\/p>\n As of Friday evening, the President had yet to issue a public statement\u2014but few doubt it\u2019s coming. After all, the man who once dubbed himself \u201cModern-Day Buddha\u201d is unlikely to take a Nobel snub quietly.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s not the news Donald Trump wanted to hear this morning. The U.S. President, who had been loudly declaring himself the world\u2019s greatest peacemaker, has been snubbed by the Norwegian … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1],"tags":[270,269],"class_list":["post-4214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inn","category-uncategorized","tag-donald-trump","tag-nobel-peace-prize-2025","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8654,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4214\/revisions\/8654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ichelnewsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}