Trump's Nobel Peace Prize

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump he has nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize for his Middle East efforts. We hear what he's done to deserve it. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Gabrielle Berbey, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a dinner hosted by President Donald Trump at the White House. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Israel's defense minister announced plans yesterday to move displaced Palestinians into a, quote,
0:06.3	humanitarian city on the ruins of Ruffa. This sounded to a lot of people like plans to create
0:12.7	an internment camp. The war goes on. Five Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza today. The IDF
0:20.2	continues to fire on Palestinians who are just trying to get food.
0:23.9	To all of this, add another casualty.
0:26.7	Irony.
0:27.6	Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had dinner at the White House last night and made
0:31.7	this startling gesture.
0:34.3	So I want to present to you, Mr. President, the letter I sent to the Nobel Prize Committee.
0:41.6	It's nominating you for the Peace Prize, which is well deserved, and you should get it.
0:46.8	Thank you very much.
0:47.6	This I didn't know.
0:48.8	Wow.
0:49.8	Coming up on today explained President Trump badly wants the Nobel Peace Prize, and he thinks getting a ceasefire in Gaza will land him won.
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