Americans aren’t buying Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize pitch
President Donald Trump again said he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize during speech at the United Nations General Assembly this week, advertisement That “everyone” thinks that he should be granted the prestigious honor.
Uh, who is everyone?
While Trump The most devoted supporters could nod, the wider audience, most of which disapprove From its overall performance, is much less convinced.
According to a recent Ipsos survey For the Washington Post, 76% of Americans think that Trump does not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, while only 22% think it does it.
Even the Republicans are divided, with 49% support and 49% in opposition. And among the self -employed, only 14% support the idea, while only 3% of the Democrats say that it deserves it.
As you would expect, Trump is not influenced by figures.
“The only survey that counts for President Trump is the thousands of lives he has saved by finishing conflicts of several decades in the world,” said assistant press secretary Anna Kelly Tell Axios. “No world leader has no longer made global stability to advance, and although it deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, he cares more about saving than people are killed.”
During his UN speech, Trump took the credit To put an end to the “seven floods” – an assertion that has been on several occasions demystified.
“What is close to my heart is not to win a price, it saves lives,” he added.
Of course, this declaration is more ambitious than factual. Asset long sought The Nobel Prize so forces with one in ten American already think that he won it.
In June, while revealing an agreement to resolve a conflict of several decades between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Trump mentioned the Nobel Six times.
“No, I will not get a Nobel Peace Prize, no matter what I do,” he groans at the time.
Trump also launched the idea that negotiating a peace agreement in Ukraine could get the honor. During his UN speech, he warned That Russia would be confronted with “a very high series of powerful rates” if Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to negotiate.
The American public has always been skeptical about the granting of the Nobel to seated presidents. In his survey, Ipsos found that 54% still believe that former President Barack Obama did not deserve the price when he received in 2009. And at that time, a Quinnipiac University Survey found that only 26% of Americans thought he deserved honor.
Trump rejected this previous one.
“If I was named Obama, I would have had the Nobel Prize which was gave me in 10 seconds”, he said Last year.
World leaders have also weighed. French President Emmanuel Macron suggested Tuesday that the only way for Trump to win a Nobel would be to end the War of Israel in Gaza.
“There is a person who can do something, and it is the American president”, he said.
But the decision finally belongs to five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, including at least three publicly criticized Asset. President Jorgen Watne Frydnes highlighted Trump’s attacks on the media in the 2024 elections, while another member said that Trump “was in progress to dismantle American democracy.”
This episode is only an other example of a familiar model of Trump: an obsession for distinctions, the personal brand and resembles a winner – often to the detriment of reality.
Trump presents the Nobel as proof of his global efforts to restore peace, but facts – and public opinion – tell a very different story. During his UN speech, while he boasted of his file on conflict resolution, the gap between his claims and reality was impossible to miss.
The “seven essential wars”, claims to have ended are, in fact, always unleashed – or barely changed by his actions.
A Nobel Peace Prize for Trump seems unlikely – but it will surely move on, probably with another parade To soften the blow.
