Hillary Clinton says she’d nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize if he helps broker a deal to end Ukraine war
Hillary Clinton said she would nominate President Donald Trump for his long-awaited Nobel Peace Prize if he could broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine that did not “capitulate” to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Clinton, the former secretary of state who once ran a campaign against Trump, issued her bold declaration on the Raging Moderates podcast to incentivize the president not to give in to the Russian president’s demands.
“I understand, from everything I read, that he would very much like to receive the Nobel Peace Prize,” Clinton told co-host Jessica Tarlov. “If he could end it, without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor, had to, in a way, validate Putin’s vision of greater Russia, but instead could really stand up to Putin…. I’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.”
Clinton said the president has an opportunity to be the “architect” of a peace deal that would not give Putin any of Ukraine’s territory or allow Russian troops to remain in areas it has already seized.
“If we could pull that off, if President Trump were the architect of that, I’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize because my goal here is to not allow capitulation to Putin, aided and abetted by the United States,” Clinton added.
Clinton’s comments arise as Trump prepares to meet Putin in Alaska, marking the first time to pair have met face-to-face during the president’s second term.
Trump has long sought to broker a deal between the two countries, even making it a campaign promise. However, he’s struggled to get Russia to meaningfully engage in peace talks and has hit several bumps with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Zelensky will not be part of the meeting, but he and other European leaders have remained in close communication with Trump and made clear that meaningful negotiations must include Ukraine.
Some have expressed concern about Trump making major concessions to Putin because the president’s history of praising his Russian counterpart and criticism of Zelensky.
“He gains nothing by capitulating to Putin,” Clinton said on the podcast.
The former secretary of state said the terms of a peace deal need to include a “cease-fire,” “no exchange of territory,” and “that over a period of time, Putin should be actually withdrawing from the territory he seized.”
Should the president broker a deal of that sort, Clinton would nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize, which the president has long hoped for and recently made a push for.
Recently, the president has dropped obvious hints that he is gunning for the prize – posting about it on Truth Social, mentioning it in meetings, and having members of the Trump administration also campaign for the prestigious prize.
So far, Trump has helped broker deals between Cambodia and Thailand, Pakistan and India, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and intervened in the exchange of fire between Israel and Iran. Several world leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have nominated the president for the Nobel Peace Prize.
But Clinton, a notable opponent of Trump, said she too would nominate the president if he could manage a ceasefire that does not favor the aggressor.
“You can dream, Jessica. You can dream. I’m dreaming that for whatever combination of reasons, including the elusive Nobel Peace Prize, President Trump may actually stand up to Putin,” Clinton said.
