A day after President Trump, who's been up for the honor multiple times, discounted his chances of winning a Nobel Peace Prize, Pakistan's government announced it's nominated him again. Trump deserves the award "in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership during the recent India-Pakistan crisis," said the post on X, the BBC reports, referring to a ceasefire with India that Trump announced in May after four days of airstrikes in Kashmir. India remembers the outcome differently, saying that it opposes mediation from third parties and that the two countries negotiated their deal directly. Pakistani politicians this weekend debated the larger notion of honoring Trump.
A former ambassador to the US was critical. "A man who has backed Israel's genocidal war in Gaza and called Israel's attack on Iran as 'excellent,'" Maleeha Lodhi posted on X. "It compromises our national dignity," she added. A former head of a parliamentary defense committee saw benefits. "Trump is good for Pakistan," Mushahid Hussain told Reuters. "If this panders to Trump's ego, so be it. All the European leaders have been sucking up to him big time." The Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision will be announced in October.
Trump has lobbied for the honor before. He's called the process unfair, saying in 2019 that he deserved the peace prize "for a lot of things" and that while he should receive the honor, Barack Obama did not deserve his. Trump's past nominations have come from abroad and US Republicans; as recently as May, Rep. Darrell Issa said he was nominating Trump for making "the fundamental case for a world without war" better than any president since Ronald Reagan. On Friday, Trump predicted there'd be no prize for him, per CNN. "I won't get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between India and Pakistan," he posted. "I won't get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do." (More President Trump stories.)
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