White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump has ended six conflicts, adding “it is well past time that he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize”.
A White House official on Thursday called for a Nobel Peace Prize for Donald Trump, saying that the US President has brokered one peace deal per month during his six months in office. President Donald Trump has facilitated the brokering of six ceasefires-involving nations such as India & Pakistan, Israel & Iran, Rwanda & DRC, among others-that ought to be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize. Her comments give credence to a narrative that Trump is a global peacemaker.
“President Trump has now ended conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, and Egypt and Ethiopia,” Karoline Leavitt said.
“This means that President Trump has brokered on average one peace deal or ceasefire per month during his six months in office. It is well past time that the President Trump be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,” she added.
Peacemaking or Political Messaging?
At the heart of the dispute is whether Trump actually brokered these disputes. In India, leaders have strongly rejected the view that the U.S. intervened in the resolution of the 2025 India-Pakistan conflict. Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar and Prime Minister Modi both emphasized that the ceasefire was a result of India exerting its own military and diplomatic messages. Critics say that the White House resorts to equating communication with mediation, thus questioning the substance behind the peace claims.
International Reactions: Praise Vs. Skepticism
On the global scene, thunderstorms of international endorsements for Trump have fallen from the Pakistanis’ nomination, through the support of Israeli and African leaders. His supporters highlight breakthrough moments such as the Abraham Accords, possible mediation in South Asian and Middle Eastern de-escalation. However, analysts cautioned that this is more of a paw show than an enduring peace process. Skeptics further state that Nobel should account for long-lasting impacts and not episodic peace theater.
Redefining Peace in the Trump Era
This narrative is reflective of a much wider trend within Trump’s second term-an assertive, deal-making foreign policy termed as the “Trump Doctrine”. Depending on whom you ask, his supporters celebrate him for these daring interventions, while detractors criticize him for being inconsistent and transactional. As his Nobel campaign gains traction, observers are left wondering what ought to characterize modern peace-making-witnesses of political flair or the art of diplomacy.
“They should give me the Nobel Prize for Rwanda, and if you look at Congo, or you could say Serbia, Kosovo, you could say a lot of them. I mean, the big one is India and Pakistan,” Trump had said.
