President Donald Trump on Tuesday received a high honor that highlighted his integral role in his efforts to establish peace on the world stage, amid an impressive track record of ending several wars, including the conflict in Gaza.
This week, he was awarded the Richard Nixon Foundation’s “Architect of Peace Award” during a small ceremony at the White House, where he was joined by the late President Richard Nixon’s daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, and members of her family.
The award was established in 1995 after President Nixon passed away. It is given to “individuals who embody his lifelong goal of shaping a more peaceful world,” the foundation explains on its website.
Notable awardees have included Newt Gingrich (1995), Henry Kissinger (1996), President George H.W. Bush (1998), and President George W. Bush (2024). President Trump is only the third president to receive such an award.
This award also comes just as the Nobel Prize Committee snubbed President Trump this year, despite his work to end multiple wars in just a handful of months. Instead, the committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to a Venezuelan activist for democracy, Maria Corina Machado, who then dedicated her award to President Trump in recognition of his work to forge peace across the world.
The president inked a peace deal in the Middle East just last week, with dozens of countries around the globe – including key Arab nations – signing on to support the agreement that aims to stop the killing between Hamas and Israel and deliver aid to civilians wounded in the crossfire.
“Peace has been achieved after undying efforts – efforts led by President Trump, who is genuinely a man of peace, who has relentlessly and untiringly worked throughout these months, day in, and day out, to make this world a place to live in peace and prosperity,” said Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif last week.