Donald Trump loses out on Nobel Peace Prize 2025
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 has been awarded to someone other than US President Donald Trump, who has made it clear several times in the past that he really wanted to win the accolade.
The winner this year is María Corina Machado of Venezuela, who has been honoured for her part in promoting democracy in the country.
"She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy," the committee said of their decision to give her the prestigious accolade.
Awarded to the person deemed to have done the most 'for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses' in a given year, the Nobel Peace Prize is one of the most celebrated honours a person can receive.
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It was created in the will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, which he supposedly decided to do after the papers mistakenly published his obituary and called him 'the merchant of death' for his explosive creation.
His prizes have certainly turned around his legacy if that was his aim, and the Nobel Peace Prize is pretty much the most prestigious diplomatic award in the world.
This year, there were a total of 338 candidates nominated for the award, split between 244 people and 94 organisations.
Trump previously claimed that he 'would have had the Nobel Prize given to me in 10 seconds' if he'd been Barack Obama, and has repeatedly complained about his lack of the award.
Back when a treaty between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo was being signed, he used the opportunity to complain he wasn't getting one.
He wrote: "This is a Great Day for Africa and, quite frankly, a Great Day for the World! I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for this.
"I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between India and Pakistan … for stopping the War between Serbia and Kosovo … for keeping Peace between Egypt and Ethiopia … and I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for doing the Abraham Accords in the Middle East."
However, it was never likely to be Trump's award to win given that nominees for 2025 closed in January, just a few days before Trump's second term in the White House began.
Over the course of 2025, several world leaders have indicated they might nominate Trump for the prize, meaning he could be in the running again next year.
Four previous US presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize, Teddy Roosevelt becoming the first American to win it in 1906 for his part in mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese war.
Woodrow Wilson was awarded the prize in 1919 for founding the League of Nations, the precursor to the UN which ultimately failed to avert the Second World War.
The first former US president to win it was Jimmy Carter, who got it in 2002 over two decades after he'd left the White House, while Barack Obama received it in 2009 during the first year of his presidency.
Topics: Donald Trump, Politics, World News, US News
Joe Harker