Newsmax Columnists, Fellow Ideologues Begged For Trump To Receive Nobel Peace Prize

Posted on October 29, 2025

Newsmax columnists spent a good part of this year lobbying for Donald Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, while also taking shots at Barack Obama for having won it. Some examples of that:

Four Presidents of the United States were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, including, most recently, Barack Obama in 2009. He won for “his efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation.”

Incredibly, Barack Obama was nominated for the award just a few days after he was inaugurated and before he attained any significant achievements. 

Unfortunately, Obama did not fulfill the lofty expectations of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. When he left office in 2017, the world was more dangerous than it was at the start of his presidency.

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Unlike Obama, who refused to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, Trump met with “Little Rocket Man” three times. These summits helped lessen tensions and improve relations between the two countries.

In this first term as president, Trump also brokered the historic Abraham Accords, which established diplomatic relations between Israel and four Arab nations: United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. He also negotiated a historic economic agreement between Serbia and Kosovo, two countries on the verge of war.

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It seems clear, there is one champion peacemaker in the world, Donald Trump. Time for the Norwegian Nobel Committee to acknowledge reality.

— Jeff Crouere, May 12 Newsmax column

From the Mideast to South and East Asia, Central and East Africa, and the Balkans, President Donald Trump is pursuing a mission to promote stability and peace throughout the world.

And while iconic leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. championed global peace, President Trump stands apart — unlike any other leader in our lifetime.

And he does so by employing his commanding presence and unmatched negotiating skills to bring that vision closer to reality.

Though many have spoken of peace, it’s taken a results-oriented billionaire businessperson like Trump to come closest to achieving it.

That is why a Louisiana-based Indian Tribe is nominating President Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, using their status as a sovereign nation to meet the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s nomination criteria — highlighting his “role in advancing global peace amid international conflicts and economic uncertainty.”

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While former President Obama received the prize, his tenure made the world more dangerous – alienating allies and emboldening adversaries, which contributed to increased global instability.

As the Norwegian Nobel Committee reviews the 2026 nominations, they must remember that the prize is awarded to those who truly deserve and have earned it.

Choosing wisely will make the world not only safer but significantly better off.

— Mark Vargas, July 10 column

By any objective standard, it’s hard to imagine any other individual or institution in the world today that has “conferred the greatest benefit to humankind in the field of peace,” which is the prize’s only criterion according to the will of its founder, the 19th century Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel.

Trump is aware of this and has stated both publicly and privately that he would be honored to receive the prize.

Other national leaders, who figure in the category of people eligible to nominate candidates, agree with him.

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Barack Obama won the 2009 prize for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and foster cooperation between nations,” puzzlingly despite having only been elected to the presidency in November 2008 and assumed office just eleven days before the Jan. 31 nomination deadline for the following year’s prize.

Trump’s vastly greater second administration achievements and the nominations based on them postdate Jan. 31, 2025, so he may have to wait until next year for recognition.

But the fact remains that millions globally have benefited from his peaceful diplomacy in a way that simply no one else can claim.

If the Norwegian committee that grants the Nobel Peace Prize has any integrity, it will grant him the recognition he deserves.

— Paul du Quenoy, Sept. 3 Newsmax column

This month the Nobel Prize Committee is expected to announce the recipients for this year’s Nobel prizes.

The committee should have awarded President Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize five years ago for brokering the Abraham Accords, which isolated Iran, the number-one state sponsor of terrorism, from much of the rest of the Arab world.

In the months since Trump’s White House return, he’s been even busier, and attained even greater results.

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And for all of those reasons, the Nobel Prize Committee has no choice but to present Trump with what it denied him five years ago — the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Michael Dorstewitz, Oct. 1 Newsmax column

That was joined by sycophantic articles quoting people touting the same:

Trump toady Dick Morris contributed to the campaign as well during an Aug. 16 TV appearance:

Political strategist Dick Morris told Newsmax on Saturday that President Donald Trump could build “irresistible momentum” toward a Nobel Peace Prize if he successfully ends the war in Ukraine.

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Morris, author of “The Return: Trump’s Big 2024 Comeback,” added that Trump’s efforts to resolve the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine could set the stage for international recognition.

“If he does settle this Ukraine war, I think there’s a real chance that there will be an irresistible momentum for him to have, get a Nobel Peace Prize, even though that’s a very biased, left-wing committee.

“The momentum might become irresistible,” he said.

Newsmax also published a wire article noting that the Nobel committee ” cannot be swayed” by the aggressive pro-Trump lobbying campaign.