How many times was Donald J. Trump nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and in which years?
Executive summary
Donald J. Trump has been publicly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in multiple years; reporting documents nominations or nominators in at least four distinct years — 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2025 — though the exact tally cannot be independently confirmed because Nobel nomination records are confidential for 50 years [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].
1. Documented nominations by year: 2020
Contemporaneous coverage records nominations of Trump in 2020, including submissions by Norwegian politician Christian Tybring‑Gjedde and by Swedish MP Magnus Jacobsson, who cited his diplomacy around the Korean peninsula and deals such as the Serbia‑Kosovo talks as reasons for nomination [1] [3] [6].
2. White House announcement: 2021 nomination tied to the Abraham Accords
The Trump White House publicly announced that President Trump was nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in brokering the Abraham Accords normalizing relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, a claim recorded in an official White House statement [2].
3. Renewed push in 2023 and publicized backers
Reporting shows at least one explicit 2023 nomination: Rep. Claudia Tenney (R‑NY) announced she had nominated Trump for his earlier Middle East diplomacy, a fact carried in outlets tracking Nobel candidacies and Trump supporters’ efforts [1] [3].
4. Multiple 2025 nominations amid second‑term diplomacy
During the 2025 nomination window the public record lists several nominators who filed on Trump’s behalf — including Rep. Darrell Issa and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna — and high‑profile letters and endorsements, such as a reported letter from Benjamin Netanyahu delivered in mid‑2025, which outlets treated as nominations or recommendation letters to the Nobel committee [1] [7] [8] [4].
5. Why an exact count is elusive: Nobel confidentiality and public claims
The Norwegian Nobel Committee keeps the names of nominators and nominees secret for 50 years, meaning independent verification of every claimed nomination is impossible from public sources; fact‑checks have noted there are public claims and press releases about nominations but warned against treating every public boast as an official, verifiable entry [5]. Media outlets nevertheless have reported multiple, separate nomination events across the years above, creating a reasonable, evidence‑based lower bound on nominations.
6. What “nominated” means here and competing interpretations
Being nominated does not imply endorsement by the Nobel committee, nor any shortlist status — nominations are submissions by eligible nominators and the committee alone decides winners after confidential deliberations [6] [5]. Some coverage frames these nominations as part of political theatre or as genuine endorsements of specific diplomacy; critics and analysts cited by outlets argue that public nomination campaigns can be symbolic and driven by domestic politics rather than by the committee’s criteria [3] [8].
7. Bottom line and reporting limits
Based on contemporary reporting, Trump was publicly nominated in at least four different years — 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2025 — with multiple individual nominators cited in the public record [1] [2] [3] [4] [7]. Because nomination lists are sealed for five decades, this should be read as a conservative, evidence‑based count of publicly reported nominations rather than a definitive, exhaustive tally [5].