President Trump lost out on earning this year’s Nobel Peace Prize despite brokering a historic cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas after more than two years of war .
But it wasn’t a snub, more just a case of bad timing — the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee made its decision on Monday, two days before the peace deal was struck , to bestow the award to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado .
Footage from the streets of Tel Aviv and war-torn Gaza showed crowds of cheering revelers chanting Trump’s name in the hours after the deal was secured, some calling out “Nobel Prize to Trump!” 5
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Trump has also garnered widespread peacenik accolades during his second term in office for his efforts to tamp down the escalating conflict between Russia an