This story was updated Wednesday, June 25, 2025, to add Trump-related legislation by other members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Coastal Georgia’s U.S. Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter has nominated President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing the president’s “extraordinary and historic role in brokering an end to the armed conflict between Israel and Iran” and preventing Tehran from “obtaining the most lethal weapon on the planet.”
In a letter Tuesday to the head of the Norwegian Nobel Commission in Oslo less than a day after Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, Carter said the president’s “bold action” in “forging a swift agreement that many people believed impossible efforts” illustrated the “very ideals that the peace prize seeks to recognize: the pursuit of peace, the prevention of war, and the advancement of international harmony.”
Trump’s “message of mutual respect and peace will now result in a full cessation of military activity, no further escalation, and the preservation of thousands, if not millions, of lives throughout the Middle East and around the globe,” Carter said.
Hours before Carter posted the letter on the social media website X, the ceasefire appeared off to a rocky start, as each side traded fire. That drew Trump’s ire.
As he prepared to depart for a NATO summit in the Netherlands, he accused both Israel and Iran of violating the ceasefire but directed particularly sharp criticism at Washington’s close ally, saying it had to “calm down now.”
“Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I’ve never seen before,” he told reporters. “We have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f*** they’re doing.”
‘Four or five of them’
The six-term congressman from St. Simons joins a list of officials and politicians who have called on the Nobel Commission to award the prize to Trump, including former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, who suggested last week that if the president brokers peace between Iran and Israel, the award should be renamed the “Trump Peace Prize.”
Carter’s letter also comes just days after Trump complained on his Truth Social social media platform that he has not been awarded the peace prize yet and listed the wars he believed he had stopped. He later told reporters that he should have gotten “four or five” of them. “They only give it to liberals,” he said.
Perhaps because Trump appears to covet the prize, Carter’s nomination letter gained the White House’s attention quickly. Fox News first scooped news of the letter just after 8 a.m. Less than three hours later, it was posted on Truth Social.
Minutes afterward, the Truth Social post was published on one of Carter’s social media pages with his note: “Nobody deserves the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE more than President Trump. I stand with him 100%. Always have, always will. Thank you for sharing, @realDonaldTrump!”
Seeking president’s favor
Whether the famously transactional Trump will return Carter’s favor is, of course, another matter.
Coastal Georgia’s congressman is especially keen to gain the president’s favor in his bid to win the Republican nomination take on U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff in next year’s marquee election race.
Trump’s support, if not endorsement, is crucial in increasing Carter’s low name recognition across the state, gaining statewide support among Republicans and winning the GOP primary next spring.
Carter’s letter and sponsorship of Trump-friendly messaging bills appears to be part of his campaign’s effort to get that support.
In February, he introduced a bill authorizing the president to enter negotiations to purchase Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, and rename it “Red, White and Blue Land.”
After formally announcing his Senate candidacy in May, he put forward other Trump-friendly, attention-grabbing messaging bills.
One calls for the creation of a special committee to investigate “the White House cover-up of former President Biden’s cognitive and physical health decline.” Another condemns California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for their roles in that city’s recent unrest and continuing “unlawful sanctuary policies.
Still another codifies Trump’s executive order, “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”
Fierce competition
Carter, however, faces fierce competition from other Republican lawmakers for Trump’s attention and approval.
Since January, House Republicans have proposed at least eight bills to honor the president, which like the legislation authored by Carter have little or no chance of passage, according to GovTrack, a transparency and accountability website that monitors the activities of Congress and White House.
The measures include carving Trump’s face onto Mount Rushmore; renaming Washington Dulles International Airport for him; making his birthday a national holiday; requiring the printing of $100 bills with his portrait on them; and introducing a $250 bill doing the same.
Last month, a Florida Republican introduced a bill that would cut off funding for Washington’s transit authority unless it changed its name to the “Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access,” or “WMAGA,” and renamed the system’s rail line the “Trump train.”