{"id":2405137,"date":"2025-02-21T12:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T17:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-waltz-predicts-trump-will-win-nobel-peace-prize-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T12:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T17:06:58","slug":"mike-waltz-predicts-trump-will-win-nobel-peace-prize-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-waltz-predicts-trump-will-win-nobel-peace-prize-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Waltz predicts Trump will win Nobel Peace Prize &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-waltz-predicts-trump-will-win-nobel-peace-prize-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2405137&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During \u200bthe \u200cConservative\u200d Political \u200cAction Conference, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz \u200bexpressed confidence that former \u200bPresident Donald Trump would win the Nobel \u200cPeace Prize\u200c for \u2062his efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/critics-say-trumps-calls-with-putin-violated-the-logan-act-what-is-it-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Critics say Trump\u2019s calls with Putin violated the Logan Act. What is it? - Washington Examiner\">negotiate\u2062 peace<\/a> in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Waltz stated that \u2063under trump&#8217;s leadership,the war\u2062 would\u2063 conclude\u200b quickly,positioning Trump \u200das a &#8220;president of peace.&#8221; He emphasized the importance of\u2064 engaging both sides in negotiations and downplayed \u200dcriticism from \u2063ukrainian\u200b President Volodymyr Zelensky and European nations regarding their \u200dexclusion from talks. Waltz also urged NATO allies to \u200cincrease their financial contributions to support Ukraine&#8217;s \u200defforts in the\u2063 conflict. He \u200bbelieved that \u2063ultimately, Zelensky would \u2062agree to\u2063 a peace deal in the near future.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Mike Waltz predicts Trump will win Nobel Prize for Ukraine peace talks<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1999657\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland &mdash;<\/strong> National security adviser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-waltz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mike Waltz<\/a> predicted his boss would win the Nobel Peace Prize as President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> tries to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;So under Trump, this war will end, and it will end soon, and he is the president of peace,&rdquo; Waltz said at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cpac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Conservative Political Action Conference<\/a>. &ldquo;This is the presidency of peace. He&rsquo;s going to end the war in Europe. He is going to end the wars in the Middle East.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And you know what? By the end of this all, we&rsquo;re going to have the Nobel Prize sitting next to the name of Donald J. Trump,&rdquo; Waltz added as the crowd clapped in approval.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3292730\/all-executive-orders-actions-trump-first-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FULL LIST OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS, ACTIONS, AND PROCLAMATIONS TRUMP HAS MADE AS PRESIDENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump has long indicated his desire to win the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">coveted prize<\/a>. Earlier this month, he declared that &ldquo;they will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize,&rdquo; although he also said he deserves it.<\/p>\n<p>Waltz recently returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia along with Secretary of State&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marco-rubio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marco Rubio<\/a> and Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff, where a U.S. delegation met with the Russians to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Waltz downplayed criticisms from Ukrainian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/volodymyr-zelensky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> and European nations that they were being cut out of the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t end the war if you don&rsquo;t talk to both sides, and that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re doing,&rdquo; Waltz said about the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Trump invited bipartisan blowback this week when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3322605\/trump-knocks-zelensky-over-russian-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">blamed Zelensky for Russia<\/a> invading Ukraine roughly three years ago and criticized Zelensky&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-poll-finds-newsoms-job-approval-ratings-plunge-amid-looming-recall\/\" title=\"New Poll Finds Newsom\u2019s Job Approval Ratings Plunge Amid Looming Recall\">approval ratings<\/a>. The president also branded the Ukrainian leader a &ldquo;dictator&rdquo; as tensions have flared between the two men.<\/p>\n<p>Waltz did not comment on Trump&rsquo;s statements during his Friday appearance at CPAC and has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3325192\/waltz-sidesteps-questions-trump-views-putin-role-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> sidestepped questions<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n<p>Like Trump, Waltz said NATO allies must increase their financial contributions to support Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As of now, a third of our NATO allies still are not contributing the minimum, which is 2% of their GDP that they committed to &hellip; 10 years ago. So that&rsquo;s unacceptable,&rdquo; said Waltz. &ldquo;And if you know what, the Europeans want to take a bigger role in their own security, that falls in line with American First principles, as far as I&rsquo;m concerned, as far as President Trump&rsquo;s concerned. So you know what? He&rsquo;s got to rattle their cage a bit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He also said Ukraine would ultimately agree to end the war.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Here&rsquo;s the bottom line: President Zelensky is going to sign that deal, and you will see that in the very short term,&rdquo; Waltz said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1999657\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1999657\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Waltz forecasts Trump will earn Nobel Peace Prize for Ukraine negotiations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2405138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mike-Waltz-at-CPAC.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38344,42801,5894,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2405137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-mike-waltz","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Mike-Waltz-at-CPAC.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405141,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405137\/revisions\/2405141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}