Like Newsmax, WorldNetDaily has been lobbying for years for Donald Trump to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. For instance, Michael Ackley argued in a September 2023 column:
So, what has Trump done to merit the Nobel Peace Prize? Look no further than the Abraham Accords, under which the Arab states of Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates agreed to more or less get along with Israel. The accords put the first crack in the Arab wall of enmity to Israel since the Camp David Accords of the Carter administration.
So, the Nobel Prize for Trump? Don’t hold your breath.
In a June 24 article, Joe Kovacs touted how a Republican congressman nominated Trump for “his extraordinary and historic role in brokering an end to the armed conflict between Israel and Iran and preventing the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism from obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet.” He added: “This is not the first time Trump has been nominated, as Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., pushed the president’s name for the award this year, noting his 2024 electoral victory had an ‘astonishingly effective impact’ on world peace.”
bob Unruh used an Aug. 15 article, to reluctantly cheer that Hillary Clinton “claims she’d nominate Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize if he’s able to bring about an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.”
So when Trump failed to win, WND was predictably unhappy. Unruh groused in an Oct. 10 article:
The Nobel Committee has gone political again, snubbing President Donald Trump for its noted Peace prize, instead choosing a prominent opposition leader in Venezuela.
The winner, announced Thursday, is Maria Corina Machado.
The agenda of those in the international organization that picks its favorites to honor appeared when Barack Obama was elected, and within months was given the prize for his work to push “cooperation” among nations.
Then at Trump’s first term, the organization passed over his stunning precedents in the Middle East with his Abraham Accords, which established recognized and peaceful relations between multiple Arab neighbors and Israel.
But wouldn’t it have been political for the Nobel committee to submit to right-wing lobbying an dgive the prize to Trump? Unruh doesn’t discuss that.
Hanne Nabintu Herland went conspiratorial on the decision in her Oct. 16 column, insisting that Trump lost because Norway is not right-wing enough:
Why does President Donald Trump wish to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize? The president knows that Norway is a hotbed for the radical Marxist left, with its people living behind an iron curtain of state controlled, Soviet style mainstream media that almost solely allows socialist-globalist perspectives to be heard. For decades, ruthless Norwegian Marxists have subdued, harassed, belittled and demonized the conservative voices in this oil-rich country.
Norway is a nation with a wealthy state due to its massive oil and gas revenues, but the Norwegian people are taxed to the brim, poverty rising, schools and hospitals neglected. We have the worst roads in Europe. I would know, I am Norwegian and have spent two decades as a conservative commentator and pundit in this toxic landscape.
No wonder Norway is a country that has almost the most negative views of President Trump in the world, according to a 2020 Pew Research poll. This is the result of the state-funded media’s endless negative reporting on the president, constantly slandering and demonizing. Under the disguise of peace prizes, “freedom” and “democracy,” Norway’s radical left has perfected the Marxist art of quenching free speech, holding its people hostage out of fear of being demonized, lied about, losing social status and job opportunities if they so much as wrote an op-ed in some paper that was critical of socialism or favorable to Trump. This is the woke, DEI country President Trump hopes to get a Nobel Peace Prize from? Norway would rather give the Peace Prize to the horse of a senator than the current president of the United States.
The radical left-wing Nobel Committee continually awards the Prize to human rights activists, members of marginalized groups or women no one ever heard of, constantly criticized for misusing it as a political tool to influence countries’ domestic policies. It does not matter that no living man has done more than President Trump in 2025 to end wars.
If Herland hates Norway so much, why doesn’t she leave?