Roving Periscope: As Pak nominates him, Trump laments: “I won’t get the Nobel!”
Virendra Pandit
New Delhi: “I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize,” Donald Trump lamented on Friday but Pakistan, the global nursery and incubator for terror, has decided to nominate the US President for the 2026 award, the media reported on Saturday.
Interestingly, he has been nominated at least four times for the Nobel!
And who is the latest nominator? Pakistan’s Army chief, “Field Marshal” Asim Munir, whom Pakistani diaspora condemned this week as “Butcher of Pakistan,” and whom Trump invited for lunch on Wednesday at the White House in recognition to the ‘Mullah Munir’ contribution to defeat against India in May, in a precise 23-minute “war.”
The US President’s wail came after he celebrated a peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). While the US President hailed the agreement as a “Great Day for Africa,” he used the occasion to criticise what he sees as the international community’s failure to recognize his role in ‘brokering global peace.’
Earlier, Trump also said his predecessor Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize soon after he became the US President in 2009, although “Barack did not know why?” The fresh comments revive Trump’s ongoing contrast with Obama.
The US President’s latest post on Truth Social came after a peace agreement between Rwanda and Congo, ending months of violent clashes in eastern Congo where rebels, allegedly backed by Rwanda, had seized key territories since January. The US was invited to mediate the peace process by Congo President Felix Tshekedi.
“This is a Great Day for Africa and, quite frankly, a Great Day for the World,” Trump wrote. He described the outcome as “a wonderful Treaty.”
Despite the ‘diplomatic achievement,’ Trump lamented the lack of recognition, “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, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between Serbia and Kosovo,” he said, referencing a number of international conflicts he claims to have helped resolve, including those in North Africa and the Middle East. However, he skipped his latest failures in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Iran-Israel, and the Gaza-Israel war.
His remarks came hours after Pakistan announced to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize, in the wake of the so-called India-Pakistan ‘ceasefire’ in May, after New Delhi launched Operation Sindoor against Islamabad to destroy its terror assets.
Trump has since repeatedly claimed credit—for nearly 20 times!—for facilitating the de-escalation, although Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government have publicly, and repeatedly, de-emphasized the US President’s self-proclaimed involvement.
This would be Trump’s fifth nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination process is open to a wide pool, including university professors and members of national assemblies. Past nominees have included Michael Jackson and FIFA, highlighting the range of candidacy.
In his post, Trump further stated, “No, I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do, including Russia/Ukraine, and Israel/Iran, whatever those outcomes may be, but the people know, and that’s all that matters to me!”
Pakistan credited Trump with using diplomatic engagement to avert a broader conflict, calling him a “genuine peacemaker.”
The announcement came in a post on X, with the headline: “Government of Pakistan Recommends President Donald J Trump for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.”
It came three days after Trump hosted Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir at the White House. Mullah Munir is the one who mooted the Nobel issue, which his puppet government followed up on Saturday.
“The Government of Pakistan has decided to formally recommend President Donald J Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership during the recent India-Pakistan crisis,” the post said.
Tensions between India and Pakistan escalated after the April 22 Pahalgam massacre of Hindu-only tourists by Pakistan-sponsored terrorists, prompting New Delhi to carry out precision strikes on terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on May 7.
The on-ground bilateral hostilities lasted for four days and ended with an understanding of stopping the military actions following talks between the directors general of military operations of both sides on May 10.
Despite his hoax being exposed multiple times, Trump has been relentlessly claiming that he stopped a ‘nuclear war’ between India and Pakistan. New Delhi has been maintaining that India’s fierce counter-attack that day forced Pakistan to plead for ending the hostilities.
Islamabad on Saturday said that “at a moment of heightened regional turbulence”, President Trump “demonstrated great strategic foresight and stellar statesmanship through robust diplomatic engagement with both Islamabad and New Delhi.”
The US President “de-escalated a rapidly deteriorating situation, ultimately securing a ceasefire and averting a broader conflict between the two nuclear states that would have had catastrophic consequences for millions of people in the region and beyond.”
“This intervention stands as a testament to his (Trump’s) role as a genuine peacemaker and his commitment to conflict resolution through dialogue,” it read.
Pakistan also acknowledged President Trump’s “sincere offers” to help resolve the issue of Jammu and Kashmir, and noted that his leadership during the 2025 Pakistan-India crisis “manifestly showcases the continuation of his legacy of pragmatic diplomacy and effective peace-building.”
Islamabad remains hopeful that Trump’s “earnest efforts” will continue to contribute towards regional and global stability, particularly in the context of ongoing crises in West Asia, including the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Gaza and the deteriorating escalation involving Iran, the post said.
