Donald Trump’s Nobel Peace prize nomination is abruptly withdrawn amid global uproar

Donald Trump’s Nobel Peace prize nomination has been abruptly withdrawn by the person who nominated him because he did not help stop the war between Ukraine and Russia. 

Oleksandr Merezhko, a top Ukrainian lawmaker, nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize last November. 

On Monday, June 23, Merezhko withdrew Trump’s nomination. 

He said he lost faith in Trump’s abilty to stop the war between Ukraine and Russia, as stated by a Newsweek report. 

Trump promised in January to end the war in just 24 hours after he returned to the White House. But the peace talks did not go anywhere. Ukraine agreed to a U.S. plan to make peace in March, but Russia has not agreed yet. 

Oleksandr Merezhko, the head of Ukraine’s parliamentary foreign committee, told Newsweek on Tuesday, June 24, he had “lost any sort of faith and belief” in Trump and his ability to secure a ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv. 

Trump is “is evading—he is dodging—the need to impose sanctions on Russia,” Merezhko said. 

Trump said it late May it would take a fortnight to work out if Moscow was stringing him along. If Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling, Trump warned at the time, “we’ll respond a little bit differently.” The deadline lapsed approxmately two weeks ago. 

Merezhko said Trump had “virtually no reaction” to recent large-scale strikes on the Ukrainian capital, adding: “He has chosen the path of appeasement.”