Overview

• Leaders of Pakistan, Israel, Cambodia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Rwanda and Gabon have formally nominated or publicly endorsed Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize following his credited role in recent ceasefires.
• Republican lawmakers including Reps. Buddy Carter and Claudia Tenney and Sens. Bernie Moreno and Marsha Blackburn have submitted or signaled nominations through Congress.
• Norwegian finance minister Jens Stoltenberg confirmed Trump’s July call focused on tariffs and economic cooperation, declining to detail any discussion of the peace prize.
• A report in Dagens Næringsliv cited unnamed sources saying Trump directly told Stoltenberg he “wanted the Nobel Prize,” highlighting his active lobbying.
• With nominations closed and the committee’s deliberations sealed until October, Trump’s upcoming Alaska meeting with Putin is seen as the defining test of his peacemaking credentials.