Newsmax was the top conWeb cheerleader for President Trump to win a Nobel Peace Prize, last year, was bummed that he didn’t win, but then was excited he was regifted a Peace Prize by the actual winner, María Corina Machado. Needless to say, Newsmax has jumped out to lobby for Trump to receive this year’s award. That seems to be the point of an April 30 article by Nicole Weatherholtz:
President Donald Trump is being cast as the top early contender for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize by U.K.-based bookmaker William Hill, despite the fact that the Norwegian Nobel Committee has not publicly identified this year’s nominees.
William Hill, which previously suggested Trump was “overlooked” for the honor in 2025, currently gives him 3/1 odds to win.
“Although the Norwegian Nobel Committee have not confirmed that Donald Trump is among the 287 candidates for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, we make Trump the leading contender to take this year’s award,” William Hill spokesperson Lee Phelps said, according to Mediaite.
“Trump was overlooked by the committee last year in favor of Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado, but we now price the U.S. president at 3/1 to claim the 2026 prize – a 25% chance,” he added. “That is a longer price than we quoted late last year, when we rated Trump’s chances at 55%.”
[…]Machado later dedicated her Nobel Prize to Trump and presented it to him at the White House.
Trump has frequently argued he is deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize and has cited his role in ending “seven wars” since returning to the presidency.
Weatherholtz didn’t bother to fact-check that claim, but the fact that she put “seven wars” in scare quotes probably tells us what we need to know.