In a pointed declaration from the White House press briefing room Thursday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reportedly said it is “well past time” for President Donald J. Trump to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, citing a sweeping string of international peace deals secured during his current term in office.
“The president has now ended conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, and Egypt and Ethiopia,” Leavitt told reporters. “This means President Trump has brokered, on average, about one peace deal or ceasefire per month during his six months in office.”
The comments follow closely on the heels of President Trump’s latest diplomatic success: a ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia, a conflict that had displaced over 300,000 people.
According to the White House, the president personally intervened, making direct phone calls to leaders in both countries and making clear that “unless they brought their conflict to an end, there would be no trade discussions or agreements with the United States.” The result was swift: an unconditional ceasefire and the resumption of U.S.-backed trade talks.
Leavitt said the outcome will “save thousands of lives,” and emphasized it as just one in a series of high-stakes negotiations where President Trump has leveraged diplomacy and economic influence to stabilize historically volatile regions.
While President Trump has frequently drawn attention for his tough rhetoric and America-first economic policies, the administration insists that the president’s foreign policy record shows a different story: one of hard-nosed pragmatism leading to peace.
His ability to resolve some of the world’s most entrenched disputes—many of which have persisted through multiple administrations—has surprised even some skeptics abroad.
The president’s list of recent peace-brokering accomplishments reads like a catalog of the world’s most difficult diplomatic challenges: a cooling of tensions between Israel and Iran; détente between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan; and progress between Egypt and Ethiopia following years of regional strain over water rights. Each of these developments has occurred within Trump’s first half-year in office.
“Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize. He’s achieved more than those who’ve won before,” Leavitt wrote earlier this month in a social media post, linking to a USA Today op-ed echoing the sentiment.
President Trump has previously expressed admiration for the Nobel Prize, often pointing out that former President Barack Obama received it early in his first term without any major peace accomplishments.
The comparison isn’t lost on Leavitt or other supporters, who argue that Trump’s tangible results on the world stage—however unconventional his approach—merit global recognition.
As Trump’s foreign policy continues to show unexpected success, the Nobel Committee may soon have to decide whether to acknowledge what his supporters see as a once-unlikely but now undeniable fact: that under President Trump, peace has become not just possible—but routine.
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