What the WaPo?
The Washington Post published an op-ed this week conceding that President Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for securing a cease-fire in Gaza.
The op-ed, penned by Marc A. Thiessen, is titled Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
“Not only does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but there has arguably never been an American president who deserved it more,” Thiessen says to open the piece.
“Four of his predecessors have won the prize. Barack Obama won seven months into his presidency essentially for not being George W. Bush — and even he said he didn’t deserve it. Woodrow Wilson won for creating the League of Nations, which proved to be a feckless disaster that the United States never even joined,” Thiessen continued. “Theodore Roosevelt won for ending a single conflict, the Russo-Japanese War, which began with Japan’s 1904 attack on the Russian fleet in Manchuria (Japan later launched a full invasion of Manchuria in 1931, and then a surprise attack on the U.S. in 1941). Jimmy Carter won in 2002, more than two decades after leaving the White House, for a lifetime of work in peacemaking, beginning with the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt.”
Thiessen added: “Contrast this with Trump’s record. In his first term, Trump brokered not one, not two, not three, but four Arab-Israeli peace accords — the first such agreements in more than a quarter-century. He did it by rejecting the failed conventional wisdom of the foreign policy establishment, which said that there could be no separate peace without the Palestinians and that moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and confronting Iran’s aggression would inflame the region and put peace out of reach. Those moves did the opposite. The Abraham Accords alone were an achievement worthy of a Nobel Prize.”
Utah Senator Mike Lee shared the story on X, saying, “Hell has frozen over.”
“[The Washington Post] is MAGA!”
Hell has frozen over@washingtonpost is MAGA! pic.twitter.com/o4Cj7KSiA2
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) October 9, 2025
Full op-ed over at The Washington Post:
Not only does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but there has arguably never been an American president who deserved it more.
Gift link here: https://t.co/m94LP9jbAy
— Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱 (@marcthiessen) October 9, 2025