Cambodia Formally Nominates Donald Trump for the Nobel Prize

Cambodia formally nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize after the US leader threatened to halt trade deals unless the Southeast Asian nation agreed to a ceasefire with Thailand in a recent armed conflict.

In a letter dated Aug. 7 to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said Trump’s intervention in the conflict helped avert “a potentially devastating conflict” and restored peace along the two countries’ shared border. He credited Trump’s “visionary and innovative diplomacy” for the breakthrough.