Washington Post: 76% of Americans believe Trump doesn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize
As US President Donald Trump continues his campaign for the Nobel Peace Prize, Americans widely question his worthiness of the honor.
A Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted this month found that 76% of Americans believe Trump doesn’t deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, compared to 22% who believe the opposite.
This result may not be surprising given that most Americans disapprove of Trump’s performance, including 60% who give him negative marks for his handling of the war between Russia and Ukraine, and 58% who disapprove of his handling of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.
Republicans are divided over whether Trump should receive the Peace Prize, with 49% agreeing and 49% opposing.
Only 14% of independents and 3% of Democrats supported awarding Trump the prize.
The poll also found that 54% say former President Barack Obama didn’t deserve the Nobel Prize he received in 2009.
The Washington Post-Ipsos poll was conducted online from September 11 to 15, and included 2,513 American adults.
The margin of error for the overall results is plus or minus 2 percentage points.
The sample was selected through the Ipsos Dashboard, a continuous data panel of US households collected by mail using random sampling methods.
The public became more skeptical after Obama won the award in 2009, with a Gallup/USA Today poll showing that 61% believed Obama did not deserve the award.
Trump has long publicly sought the Nobel Peace Prize, but his efforts have intensified in recent months.
He reiterated his claim to have resolved seven conflicts around the world in his speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, and publicly suggested that achieving a peace agreement in Ukraine could be one of the keys to winning the prize.
The question of whether Trump will win the prize is up to the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, at least three of whom have publicly criticized Trump, according to a report published by the Washington Post last month.
Committee chairman Jorgen Watten-Friedens criticized Trump’s attacks on the media during the 2024 presidential campaign, while another committee member said in May that Trump was “moving forward in dismantling American democracy”.
