Maga Steams At Trump’s Nobel Snub

President Donald Trump lost out on the Nobel Peace Prize Friday. And Republicans from all corners of the party say he was robbed.

The president has long pined after the prestigious award. Now, many in the GOP, who cast Trump as a peacemaker who ended conflicts across the globe, are accusing the Nobel Committee of favoritism.

“The woke Nobel Committee gave Obama a peace prize for doing nothing,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said in a post on X. "They wouldn’t know peace if it stared them in the face.”

But the lobbying likely came too late. Nominations for this year’s award were due in late January, just days after Trump retook the Oval Office.

Instead of Trump, the committee chose to single out Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado — a fierce opponent of the ruling Nicolas Maduro government now living in hiding inside the country — with the honor. Machado said that she was dedicating the award to the people of Venezuela — and Trump, for his support of their cause.

Key Trump allies have previously lobbied for her to pick up the award. Florida Republicans, including Sen. Rick Scott, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and ambassador to the United Nations Michael Waltz, then all members of Congress, in August 2024 mailed a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee supporting Machado’s nomination.

Scott sent out separate posts on X Friday, congratulating Machado for “risking her life to stand up to Maduro and his thuggish dictatorship” before heaping praise on the president.

“I hope the Committee will take this into consideration when selecting the next award winner—it should be @POTUS !” Scott wrote.

The Nobel Committee’s announcement came just after perhaps Trump’s signature foreign policy accomplishment to date: a tentative peace deal to end the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The president announced that both parties had signed onto the first phase of the agreement Wednesday. Israeli troops have left parts of the enclave, with Hamas required to free its hostages within the next 72 hours, according to White House special envoy Steve Witkoff.

Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) played up the peace deal in a post on X, alongside what appears to be an AI-generated image of him and Trump holding up a Nobel Prize on the floor of Congress, surrounded by America’s Founding Fathers.

“Peace in the Middle East has eluded Presidents for DECADES,” Hudson wrote. “It's a disgrace President Trump didn't receive the Nobel Peace Prize for all he has done for peace in the region. Since the committee didn't do it, I will!”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the snub. But communications director Steven Cheung in a Friday morning social media post accused the committee of prioritizing “politics over peace” in its decision.

“President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives,” he wrote. “He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.”

Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter, who is seeking Trump’s endorsement in his bid for the Republican nomination in the state’s Senate race, told Fox Business he was introducing a congressional resolution “that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize” — even though Congress has no role actually selecting the winner of the prestigious international award.

Carter said he’d call for a discharge petition to force a vote if it doesn’t garner buy-in from the Speaker’s office.

Meanwhile, Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall is already thinking about next year, he said Friday on Newsmax.

“That's the hope,” Marshall said. “Certainly he deserves it for the work he's already done.”