As controversy brews over Donald Trump's apparent Nobel Prize snub, the president is exposing the political bias that led to Barack Obama receiving the coveted award for "doing nothing," the Daily Mail reports.
"They gave it to Obama for absolutely nothing but destroying our country," Trump told reporters. "He got a prize for doing nothing."
Indeed, Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize a mere eight months into his eight-year long presidency, before the "hope and change" candidate had the chance to do anything very consequential on the world stage.
Even the liberal New York Times called Obama's Nobel Prize honor "premature" at the time, and to this day, it is still not clear what he did to merit the prize.
By the time Obama left the White House, the democratic hopes of the Arab Spring had turned to violence, ISIS was on the rise in Iraq, and Syria and Libya were in full-blown civil wars. When Trump became president in 2017, Islamist terrorism was surging all across the West.
Trump's criticism of Obama's Nobel Prize came shortly before Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025.
Critics, including those at the White House, have slammed the Nobel Committee's decision as political in the wake of Trump's historic Gaza peace deal, which has the potential to usher in a new chapter in the troubled Middle East.
However, it wasn't the snub it appeared to be, as the committee had already made its decision two days before the first phase of Trump's deal was approved by Israel and Hamas, the New York Post reported.
President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives.
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.
The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace. https://t.co/dwCEWjE0GE
— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) October 10, 2025
While the full scope of the comprehensive 20-point plan remains to be implemented, the agreement is a giant step forward after the two deadliest years in the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The last of the Israeli hostages, both dead and alive, are expected to be released early next week, and displaced Palestinians have begun returning to their homes after the cease-fire was officially implemented on Friday.
In typical Obama fashion, the former president released a passive-aggressive statement celebrating the breakthrough without giving Trump any credit at all.
"After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight; that those hostages still being held will be reunited with their families; and that vital aid can start reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered,” Obama’s post read.
If the Gaza peace holds, it will be difficult for the Nobel Prize to retain any credibility if Trump does not receive it in 2026.
