Winning the Nobel Peace Prize is an obsession of US President Donald Trump, as the recognition would bring laurels to the billionaire at the head of a superpower who always seeks to be in the spotlight.

US Congressman Buddy Carter on June 24 submitted to the Nobel Committee an official nomination of Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his “role in brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.”

“President Trump took bold action to ultimately champion peace through strength and facilitate a ceasefire framework that brought hostilities to a halt. In a statement that has since reverberated around the globe, President Trump announced the terms of a complete and total ceasefire agreement, commending both Israel and Iran for their courage to end the war,” the Republican Congressman added.

From Carter’s statement, one might even get the impression that Trump intervened in the war between Israel and Iran and then quickly brokered a ceasefire to fulfill his undisguised ambition to win the Nobel Peace Prize, like his predecessor Barack Obama.

Nobel Peace Prize nominations can come from heads of state down to politicians serving at a national level, international courts of law as well as university chancellors and professors of social science, history, philosophy, law and theology, directors of foreign policy institutes, past recipients of a Nobel prize and members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Recently, the Pakistani government had also nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation in stopping the India-Pakistan conflict that threatened to escalate into a nuclear war. However, only a day later, the Islamic Republic condemned the US for its attack on Iran.

On June 21, Islamabad praised Trump’s “great strategic foresight and stellar statesmanship”, adding he was a “genuine peacemaker”. The next day, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the US attack on Iran, stating the “unprecedented escalation of tension and violence, owing to ongoing aggression against Iran is deeply disturbing.”

Trump himself has stated that he will never receive the Nobel Peace Prize, even though he claims he reconciled India and Pakistan, Serbia and the Albanian-majority separatist province of Kosovo, and prevented war between Egypt and Ethiopia.

From the beginning of his tumultuous public career, both as a businessman and as a politician, Trump has been a man of spectacle and someone who, with varying success, has sought to influence public opinion and leave the impression of a person always wanting to be in the spotlight.

All of Trump’s moves evoke positive astonishment and admiration from the general public, which is his basic characteristic both as a businessman and as a politician, and in his second term as US president, he is continuing this practice even more vigorously. That is precisely why the Nobel Peace Prize is a kind of obsession for him, because a billionaire who has too much money and someone who is at the top of world politics is only missing that prestigious award that would practically bring him, as he sees it, laurels that he has never had before.

Of course, the Nobel Prize itself, especially the Nobel Peace Prize, has lost much of its importance. As much as the Nobel Prizes for the natural sciences, and even for literature to some extent, have not lost their importance, the Nobel Peace Prize has become disillusioned and is now often used as an instrument of political subversion, with a greater emphasis on affirming the views of American and Western politicians.

Both Trump’s ambition and the quality and reputation of the Nobel Peace Prize are in a certain correlation and balance, and whether he will succeed in his intention to win it remains to be seen.

But the important difference between him and representatives of other great powers, such as China, Russia, and India, is that Trump, compared to these politicians, and even some others, seems quite immature and superficial. However, he is at the head of one of the most powerful superpowers in the world.

Since Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize at the beginning of his first presidential term and then started a series of wars, Trump may also receive it if he embarks on new military campaigns. The fact that Obama started at least five wars after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize presents both a logical and moral paradox for such a person to receive a once prestigious award.

In this competition, how can Trump not be a worthy contender for that flattering title? Barack Obama’s political, military, and war legacy risks being overshadowed by similar achievements from Trump. The world has entered a zone of high risk, great insecurity, and significant threat to global peace. In this context, the unstable and warlike policy of the US is unfortunately making a substantial contribution.

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Ahmed Adel is a Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

Featured image: Obverse and reverse of the Nobel Peace Prize Medal (Licensed under CC BY 3.0)

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