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struggle4progress

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Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:10 PM Aug 2025

rump Cabinet is on the warpath for Peace Nobel [View all]

... US Presidents who received the Nobel, like Theodore Roosevelt, who mediated the Russo-Japanese War, or Woodrow Wilson, who founded the League of Nations after World War I, earned it through tangible efforts in diplomacy, conflict resolution, or institution-building.

Even Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama approached the honour with caution and humility. Trump, by contrast, has pursued it with striking audacity, self-interest and desperation.

The brazenness was most visible in a televised pre-Labour Day Cabinet meeting on August 26.

Special envoy Steve Witkoff declared him the “single finest candidate” for the Nobel Peace Prize in history and urged the committee to "get its act together" ...

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/donald-trump-us-president-nobel-peace-prize-cabinet-powerful-world-pressing-norway-october-announced-steve-witkoff-2777628-2025-08-28

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