By Douglas V. Gibbs
As of August 2025, at least five countries have publicly backed or nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, along with multiple individual legislators and political figures across the globe.
U.S. Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) nominated Trump for his role in Middle East diplomacy. Buddy Carter (R-GA) cited Trump’s ceasefire efforts between Iran and Israel. Members of European Parliaments, Norwegian and Swedish, nominated Trump for the Abraham Accords and Serbia-Kosovo peace talks. World leaders have praised Trump’s roles in brokering peace agreements such as the Abraham Accords, his involvement in South Asian and Middle Eastern diplomacy, and his efforts to reduce global tensions through direct negotiations.
The countries who have nominated or endorsed Trump:
- Pakistan – For mediating a ceasefire between India and Pakistan.
- Cambodia – After brokering peace between Cambodia and Thailand.
- Israel – Prime Minister Netanyahu submitted a formal nomination citing Trump’s diplomatic efforts.
- Armenia & Azerbaijan – Jointly endorsed Trump following a U.S.-brokered peace accord ending their territorial conflict.
- Rwanda – Publicly praised Trump’s peace-building efforts, though formal nomination status has not yet emerged.
In the case of Azerbaijan and Armenia, the historic agreement was signed after decades of conflict. Until President Trump got involved, there seemed to be no end in sight. When the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev signed the peace agreement together before the cameras and in the presence of President Donald Trump in Washington D.C., Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev said, “We are today establishing peace in the South Caucasus. Today, we are writing a great new history.”
Armenian Premier Pashinyan added that the agreement represented “opening a chapter of peace, laying foundations to a better story than the one we had in the past.”
“The countries of Armenia and Azerbaijan are committing to ending all fighting forever,” Trump said at a joint press conference with the two leaders. “They suffered greatly for so many years, many tried to find resolution, the European Union, the Russians, never happened. But with this accord we finally succeeded in making peace.”
The fighting escalated while Biden was President, where in September 2023 Azerbaijan used a lightning military campaign to reclaim full control over the Karabakh region. Over the last year efforts to normalize relations began, but never seemed to fully develop. After Trump got involved in negotiations the former adversaries managed to mend fences with the U.S. benefiting from the peace agreement.
The EU said it welcomed the deal, calling the signing a “way to lasting, sustainable peace for both countries and across the entire region.”
The two countries agreed in the peace agreement to create a major transit corridor that will be named the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity. It will connect mainland Azerbaijan and its Nakhchivan region, which borders Baku’s ally Turkey via Armenian territory and is separated by a 32 kilometer patch of Armenia’s territory.
According to the White House, the new transit corridor will “allow unimpeded connectivity between the two countries while respecting Armenia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and its people.”
For Baku, the corridor offers a direct land connection to the Nakhchivan region, strengthening ties with Turkey while consolidating post-war gains through infrastructure diplomacy.
Azerbaijan benefits because it creates a crucial transport and logistics hub on a global scale.
For Yerevan (the capital of Armenia) the transport route provides an opportunity to further integrate into wider trade networks, diversify Armenia’s economy, and attract foreign investment. Geopolitically, the agreement and the corridor helps Armenia normalize relations with its neighbors.
The new Trump route will operate according to Armenian law with the U.S. subleasing the land to a consortium for infrastructure and management. Trump on social media wrote that the agreement will “fully unlock the potential of the South Caucasus region.”
The peace agreement sends a strong message to Moscow regarding the two countries’ commitment to finding a solution among themselves, while redirecting their foreign policy focus to the West.
In the past Russian efforts to repair relations have failed, and now false allegations and a misinformation campaign has been launched by Russian media regarding the two Caucasus leaders.
Not only has President Trump been negotiating peace around the world, but he has been working on bringing peace here in America as well, beginning with Washington D.C.
August 11, Trump signed an executive order to temporarily takeover Washington’s municipal police department prompting a surge of law enforcement agents in the city. The result has been hundreds of arrests, a murder rate that has dropped to zero since the clamp down, and peace in the city not seen in over a century. The President deployed over 800 National Guard troops, who have been joined by guardsmen from six other states.
The move to return to law and order in Washington D.C. is supported by existing law which allows the President to act unilaterally in the city for 30 days. Any action beyond the 30 day limit requires congressional legislation. We have to remember, Washington D.C. is a federal property, and while it may have some allowances that mimic sovereignty, it is a federal city on federal property that was established by federal law with both Constitutional and legislative sources giving authority to Congress for its laws, and to the President for executing those laws. While there has been talk about President Trump expanding his efforts to help get other cities around the country under control so that they too may achieve the kind of safety and security emerging in Washington D.C., except in the case of protecting or managing federal properties in those cities, federal law enforcement presence in those cities would require permission from the legislatures of the States as per the United States Constitution, Article IV., Section 4.
The Epoch Times took to the streets of Washington to ask business owners for their reaction regarding if the move by President Trump in Washington D.C. has had a positive or negative impact, with mixed reactions I am sure were rooted in which political ideology they supported. Overall, however, while peace in Washington D.C. has been on the rise with criminal activity at all-time lows, some business owners stated they worried about retribution from both criminals and politicians – a sign that a firm hand must be maintained in the area without letting up at all. One hopes that Congress will be able to secure legislation to continue federal influence on law enforcement in the City of Washington.
In the Epoch Times article, one individual stated, “It does feel quieter. It does feel safer to walk around.”
Fox News has been reporting a boom in restaurant business as tourists and locals return to the city for social festivities and nights-out without fear of being carjacked or mugged.
Washington’s “lighter sentencing for offenders younger than age 25” has created a very violent environment. Law and order arises when political systems tighten their laws, call for accountability, and place more law enforcement presence on the streets. And if city leadership is not going to apply such strategies, then Trump decided he would.
Since Trump’s efforts began, homeless camps have been cleared from the streets, and crime has plummeted to all-time lows. On August 21 The President toured the U.S. Park Police facility in Anacostia, thanking a crowd of about 300 federal and local agents while pledging to continue to make the city safer and more beautiful. “We’re going to have the best capital ever,” he said. “It’s going to look better than it ever did.”
The response from President Trump’s opponents have been fascinating as their reactive venom and hysteria seems to be calibrated not on what is right or wrong or which level of success is reached, but simply because that success of whatever Trump’s latest policy might be belongs to Trump. The New York Post explains that “the new hard-left Democratic Party offers no counter-agenda to explain its furor.” They simply oppose everything Trump backs – even when they know he’s right.
From peace deals to the President’s recent Alaska summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to his foreign trade policies to his crack-down on crime in Washington D.C., the Democratic Party politicians and their allies in the media and elsewhere have launched rabid objections while offering no alternative as they spew their poison. They screamed about Trump’s tariffs, but have not backed off at all under projections of $300 billion in new revenue as a result. Foreign businesses have promised to invest between $10 trillion and $15 trillion within the United States, and the Democrats went into a frenzy. In 35 minutes President Trump disabled the Iranian nuclear program that was on the verge of having nuclear warheads that they were willing to not only point at Israel, but at the United States and Trump did it in a manner where few Iranians and no Americans died with no subsequent war or need for U.S. presence developing after the strike. Still, the Democrats cursed Trump for his actions. As Trump’s influence has the Republican Party seeking to eliminate the Democratic Party’s gerrymandering madness in Texas, California Governor Gavin Newsom has threatened to “Punch Republicans in the mouth.” Peace deals have emerged across the world to the point that there is talk that Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, and the Democrats call for war. It is amazing that President Trump, who is a master negotiator, and is now also an international peacemaker, faces such rabid opposition who is fuming louder than ever before. While European leaders have fallen in line regarding NATO, tariffs and peace agreements, domestically Trump’s opponents call him a Hitleric authoritarian. The funny part about it is that Donald J. Trump is sort of like Godzilla in the movies that, when attacked by nuclear weapons, simply got stronger. That’s Trump. Nothing destroys him, not a raid on his home, not 93 lawfare indictments, not efforts to manipulate elections through fraud or striking him from state ballots, not two impmeachments, and not even two assassination attempts. Each time he has responded defiantly, with his fist in the air, stronger than ever. And while his opponents hate him more, America is on the rise and the world is more at peace with Donald J. Trump in the White House.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
