Overview
- The Oval Office event was closed to the press, with presenters including Tricia Nixon Cox, former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, and acting U.S. archivist Jim Byron, according to reports.
- White House aide Margo Martin posted photos on X as Trump escorted Nixon family members to the West Wing colonnade to view a portrait of Richard Nixon.
- He is the first sitting U.S. president to receive the honor and the third overall, following George H. W. Bush in 2000 and George W. Bush in 2024.
- The Richard Nixon Foundation says the award, created in 1995, honors those who advance Nixon’s goal of a more peaceful world, and reporting ties Trump’s selection to his role in the current Israel–Hamas cease-fire.
- The ceremony followed the Nobel Peace Prize going to María Corina Machado; the White House criticized that decision, and Trump has argued he deserved the Nobel and said he called Machado to congratulate her.