Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

OPINION:

Tomorrow, the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced, and there’s absolutely no question that President Trump deserves it.

Like so many other international institutions, the Nobel Committee’s credibility is on the line with its looming decision. During his recent speech before the United Nations, Mr. Trump asked, “What is the purpose of the United Nations?” The same question could be asked of the Nobel Committee.

Even before he took the oath of office to begin his historic second term in the White House, Mr. Trump has been preaching peace nonstop. Throughout the 2024 presidential campaign, he promised to focus on bringing peace not only with Ukraine and Russia but also with Israel and Hamas and anywhere else in the world he could use his unique skill set to end bloodshed through dialogue and understanding. This president hit the ground running, solving conflicts and achieving unprecedented results. Make no mistake about it: The world is reaping the benefits of having a strong American president who doesn’t need to learn the ropes.

What’s happening before our eyes is the 45th and 47th president of the United States is carving out his own foreign policy of peace through strength, and it’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. No feud is too complex, no centuries-old taboo too risky to confront and no geographic area deemed “strategically insignificant” to American national security.

In that spirit, with the emergence of the Trump Doctrine, peace agreements have been secured with Azerbaijan and Armenia, Cambodia and Thailand, Rwanda and Congo, Egypt and Ethiopia, India and Pakistan and Israel and Iran, just to name a few. When it comes to peace, Mr. Trump’s attitude is “Come one, come all.”

Just a year ago, if you asked any so-called expert if remarkable achievements like this were possible in the first nine months of a presidency, you would have been dismissed as stark raving mad. What the foreign policy establishment is still learning is that Mr. Trump isn’t going to defer to the conventional wisdom playbook of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger like so many before him. Conversely, instead of asking why, Mr. Trump asks, “Why not?”

Let’s recall that in his first term, during the fog of the COVID-19 crisis in 2020, Mr. Trump didn’t get nearly enough credit for making the Abraham Accords a reality. The incredible leadership he provided in bringing together Israel and the Arab states of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan to normalize relations was a legitimate game changer.

The reality is, with his Abraham Accords momentum, Mr. Trump hasn’t looked back. He is a once-in-a-lifetime leader using every tool God has blessed him with to pursue and achieve peace. He is using not only his great power and bully pulpit as president but also his celebrity status, his reputation as a highly successful entrepreneur who understands business and economics and his larger-than-life personality to build lasting relationships around the world.

Mr. Trump’s tireless efforts to end the bloody war in Gaza and to free all the hostages, alive or dead, are enough to warrant giving him the Nobel Peace Prize in themselves. When naysayers insisted that the situation in the Middle East is a 2,000-year-old problem that can’t be solved in a presidential term, Mr. Trump’s response was, “Let’s get to work.” His superhuman efforts to move the ball toward peace at such a rapid pace are simply impossible to ignore.

Look no further than the families of those being held hostage in the Gaza Strip, who recently wrote a letter to the Nobel Committee stating, “We strongly urge you to award President Trump the Nobel Peace Prize because he has vowed he will not rest and will not stop until every last hostage is back home.”

It’s also indisputable that Mr. Trump’s reelection and fearless drive to end Russia’s war in Ukraine have injected optimism into an otherwise hopeless situation. Perhaps his greatest achievement regarding the hostilities in Ukraine is volunteering to be a mediator in chief between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian ruler Vladimir Putin in the name of peace. To be certain, no one else on God’s green earth has the guts or stature to take this role head-on and succeed.

Mr. Trump’s election upset the apple cart and changed the course of history in Ukraine. Instead of blindly sending weapons to Ukraine with no end in sight, he is trying to afford Mr. Putin an exit ramp to stop the war through a compromise in which both sides must give up something to save lives. In the process, Mr. Trump has strengthened NATO by making member nations pay their fair share, called out the United Nations for not living up to its potential and demanded that India and the European Union stop funding Mr. Putin’s war by purchasing Russian oil.

Let’s face it: 2025 is no 2009. If the Nobel Committee has the spine to do what’s right by giving Mr. Trump the recognition he so deeply deserves, no one will be asking why. The Nobel Committee knows that the world is watching and that its decision will have a lasting impact on whether it is taken seriously for generations to come. Mr. Trump has earned the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, and it’s time to give him his just due.

• David N. Bossie is the president of Citizens United. He served as a senior adviser to the Trump 2024 and 2020 campaigns. He served as deputy campaign manager for Donald J. Trump for President in 2016 and deputy executive director for the Trump transition team.