On October 10, 2025, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado.

Norwegian Nobel Committee Chair Jørgen Watne Frydnes said that Machado was given the award for promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

In a post on X, Machado dedicated the award to Donald Trump:

I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!

Source:

Kelly, Laura. (October 10, 2025). "Trump doesn't get Nobel Peace Prize; María Corina Machado awarded". The Hill. Retrieved 2025-10-11.

Axelrod, Tal. (October 10, 2025). "MAGA erupts after Trump doesn't win Nobel Peace Prize". Axios. Retrieved 2025-10-11.

Donald Trump has done a fair amount of campaigning in hopes he would receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

On February 4, 2025, in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office Trump said:

They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. It's too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.

On September 23, 2025, addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, New York Trump said:

Everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize… but for me, the real prize will be the sons and daughters who live to grow up with their mothers and fathers because millions of people are no longer being killed in endless and un-glorious wars. What I care about is not winning prizes, it's saving lives.

On September 30, 2025, addressing military leadership in Quantico, Virginia Trump said:

Will you [Trump] get the Nobel Prize? Absolutely not. They'll give it -- they'll give it to some guy that didn't do a damn thing. They'll give it to a guy that wrote a book about the mind of Donald Trump and what it took to solve the wars. And he'll get -- the Nobel Prize will go to a writer. No, but we'll see what happens. But it'll be a big insult to our country, I will tell you that. I don't want it. I want the country to get it.

On October 9, 2025, during an Oval Office meeting with the president of Finland Trump said:

I know this, that nobody in history has solved eight wars in a period of nine months. And I've stopped eight wars. So that's never happened before.

In response to Trump's snub, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung posted the following on social media:

He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will. The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.

MAGA Voice, an account with over 1.3 million followers posted:

Some random person that nobody knows, Maria Machado, just won the Nobel Peace Prize THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IS A JOKE. Anyone with a brain knows Donald Trump should have won TRUMP COULD HAVE CURED CANCER SUCH A JOKE.

Right-wing activist Laura Loomer called Machado's win "affirmative action nonsense," adding "What an absolute joke. Everyone knows President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize."

In an article on The Free Press website entitled "Why Trump Should Have Won the Nobel Peace Prize | The Free Press" author Batya Ungar-Sargon said:

On Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee did what everyone expected them to do: They refused to award President Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.

A true hero of democracy, Machado is no doubt deserving of this honor, and it is not her win that is disgraceful, but the decision to deny the prize to Trump. There's a simple difference of scale here when weighing their accomplishments. And there's no reason the Nobel couldn't have gone to both of them outside the Committee's petty, political hatred of Trump

And if it was really the deadline that prevented Trump from winning, what will be the prize committee's excuse when they don't give it to him next year?

Trump never needed the Nobel. But the jurors have still disgraced themselves by not acknowledging him.

In the article, Ungar-Sargon also goes into a long analysis of the Israel/Gaza war and how Trump has been a major player in brokering peace.

Note that the deadline to nominate a person or organization for the Nobel Peace Prize was January 31. That means that most of the things Trump has done that might help make the case for him winning the prize happened after the nomination process.

Commentary:

On many occasions Trump has said that he's ended six or seven wars. We all know that Trump boasts all the time about his perceived accomplishments. Do you think he's been repeating this perception just because he has a constant, crying need to "toot his own horn?" No, he's also been doing it to remind everyone who's listening of all the great things he thinks he's done.

At the UN Trump said he doesn't care about "winning prizes." If what he said is true, then why did he make such a big deal about him "absolutely not" getting the prize at his military speech one week later? And why, in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, did Trump say "I deserve it?"

Trump has been portraying himself as a true humanitarian and that prizes don't really matter. We're talking about someone with a massive, out of control ego. Do you really believe that Trump didn't want or care about winning the Nobel Peace Prize? His contradictory statements show otherwise.

Trump always says what's politically expedient in the moment. He blatantly campaigns for the Nobel Peace Prize, but then, just in case he doesn't win it (realizing that he won't), he portrays himself as this great humanitarian who is only interested in saving lives. You can always depend on Trump to change his tune based on the political headwinds of the day.

Regarding comments made by conservatives and MAGA, I suspect more will be said in the coming week, but in the four comments that I noted, there was no mention, absolutely none, of all the things Trump does, and continues to do on a daily basis that completely disqualify him for any peace prize, Nobel or otherwise.

I give credit to Trump for his international mediation efforts, especially his recent efforts to bring peace to Gaza, but despite everything he's done to achieve peace, Trump is the antithesis of peace. All of the bad things he's said and done over the past ten years, lying, spreading hate, fomenting violence, and dividing America far outweigh any perceived good he has done.

Of course, Trump and his sycophant supporters consciously choose to ignore all of that. Some of them rationalize their beliefs by claiming they support Trump because of his policies, not his "personality." Two Trump-supporters that I know have said this to my face. They ascribe all of Trump's baggage (lies, hate, violence, division) to his "personality" and choose to ignore all of the damage he has done. Like Trump, they live in a fantasy world where Trump can say or do no wrong.

In a "tongue in cheek" opinion piece on the USA Today website entitled "If a humanitarian like Trump doesn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, who does?" columnist Rex Huppke wrote:

I'll always remember where I was on Oct. 10, 2025, the day Donald J. Trump was viciously denied the Nobel Peace Prize and the world stopped making sense.

This is an absolute outrage. I'm not sure I want to live in a world where a wealthy older white man who is a convicted felon and was found liable for sexual abuse can't successfully demand the same honor previously bestowed upon people like Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, the 14th Dalai Lama, Jimmy Carter and Malala Yousafzai.

In what insane universe does a Republican president who denied the results of a presidential election he lost and fomented an attack on the U.S. Capitol, who is presently siccing U.S. soldiers on Democratic-led cities for no reason beyond spite, while mercilessly rounding up immigrants in grotesquely violent ways, NOT get a prize for peace that he VERY CLEARLY wanted?

FUBAR, or to be even more precise "Beyond FUBAR" (BF), is the only word/phrase I can come up with to define what Trump and MAGA have become.