Trump Nobel Peace Prize nomination - what you need to know
Of course a nomination is not the same as winning - we won't know the winner for another 13 months - so what can we make of this news?For a nomination alone, the barrier to entry is low: all nominations from heads of state or politicians serving at a national level are accepted.
For the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize - the winner of which has not yet been announced - there were 318 candidates. The Norwegian Nobel Committee doesn't publicly comment on its nominees, which are kept secret for 50 years.Has Mr Trump been nominated before?And for the second time, he has Mr Tybring-Gjedde to thank. In 2018, the right-wing politician was one of two Norwegian lawmakers to nominate Mr Trump for the same prize, then for his efforts to bring reconciliation to North and South Korea.
Last month, Israel and the UAE reached a deal to normalise relations, with Israel agreeing to suspend its controversial plans to annex part of the occupied West Bank - announced by Mr Trump in a surprise statement. "This is a hard earned and well-deserved honour for this president," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Wednesday."Career politicians merely talk about the kind of results that this president has achieved on the world stage."Mr Trump is one of several US presidents to receive the peace prize nomination, including President William Howard Taft, President Herbert Hoover and President Franklin Roosevelt.
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