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Donald Trump Nominated For 2021 Noble Peace Prize For UAE-Israel Peace Deal! Story Behind Trump Nomination. Read about UAE-Israel Peace Deal!
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US President Donald Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021, according to the Daily Mail, on Wednesday, 9 September. The progress comes just weeks after helping to broker peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. On August 13, Trump announced that Israel and the United Arab Emirates had reached an agreement in exchange for Israel to "fully normalize the relations" by suspending the annexation of Palestinians to occupied West Bank territory.
The nomination was made by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a Norwegian parliamentarian and a member of the right-wing populist party in the country. Tybring-Gjedde told Fox News while lauding his efforts to solve global conflicts, he did more to build peace between nations than most other nominees of the peace prize. He also reportedly applauded the US President for the withdrawal from the Middle East of large numbers of American troops.
It should be noted that Trump was not nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for the first time. Following Trump's Singapore Summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un in 2018, Tybring-Gjedde, along with another Norwegian official, was nominated for the Nobel Prize. Trump and his campaign run a total of 48 Facebook and Instagram advertisements for his election pitch between Sept 10 and Sept 14, featuring nominations from his electorate. One-half of those ads contained a graph that reads "President Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize" with an unfortunate orthographic error.
The number of nominations in a typical year is obviously only a small fraction of that figure, but still larger than many readers may have assumed. According to the organizers, 318 candidates were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020 (211 of them individuals and 107 entities). The highest number of candidates came in 2016, when 376 individuals and organizations received nominations. It should be noted that the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is a five-member Nobel Committee appointed by the Norwegian Parliament.