Coastal Georgia’s U.S. Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter has nominated President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing the president’s “extraordinary and historic role in brokering an end to the armed conflict between Israel and Iran” and preventing Tehran from “obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet.”
In a letter Tuesday to the head of the Norwegian Nobel Commission in Oslo less than a day after Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, Carter said the president’s “bold action” in “forging a swift agreement that many people believed impossible efforts” illustrated the “very ideals that the peace prize seeks to recognize: the pursuit of peace, the prevention of war and the advancement of international harmony.”
Trump’s “message of mutual respect and peace will now result in a full cessation of military activity, no further escalation, and the preservation of thousands, if not millions, of lives throughout the Middle East and around the globe,” Carter said.
Hours before Carter posted the letter on social media, the ceasefire appeared off to a rocky start, as each side traded fire. That drew Trump’s ire.
As he prepared to depart for a NATO summit in the Netherlands, he accused both Israel and Iran of violating the ceasefire but directed particularly sharp criticism at Washington’s close ally, saying it had to “calm down now.”