Nobel Peace Prize to be announced today: Will Donald Trump’s loudest campaign yet finally win him one?

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize is an annual global event, but the coveted honour has taken on an unusual political charge this year because of a strong campaign by none other than the most powerful man in the world – US President Donald Trump.

On Thursday, just hours before the prize announcement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office posted on X an edited image showing Netanyahu placing an oversized Nobel medal around Trump’s neck. “Give @realDonaldTrump the Nobel Peace Prize — he deserves it!” Netanyahu wrote.

If that wasn't enough, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), America's largest Jewish Republican grassroots organisation, demanded that Trump shouldn't just win the Nobel Prize, but it should be renamed after him.

The Nobel Peace Prize is named after Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite, who died in 1896.

Malta’s Foreign Minister Ian Borg wrote on Facebook, “Like many others, I have nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.”

Longtime Nobel watchers say Trump's prospects remain remote despite a flurry of high-profile nominations and some notable foreign policy interventions for which he has taken personal credit.

Trump, who has long sought the Nobel spotlight, has spent months publicly touting his qualifications for the award. At the United Nations last month, he told delegates that “everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize.”

Experts say such overt lobbying is virtually unprecedented in the Nobel’s 123-year history.

“A public candidature and campaigning like the one we’ve seen this year is highly unusual,” said Nina Græger, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo. “The Peace Prize honors sustainable and lasting peace. In view of that, I do not think that it is likely that Trump receives it for this year.”

The Norwegian Nobel Committee traditionally values the quiet, durable work of diplomacy and humanitarianism.

Experts say Trump's disdain for multilateral institutions and his disregard for global climate change concerns might even work against him.

“The committee looks for long-term, structural contributions to peace, not quick fixes or personal deals,” said Theo Zenou, a historian and research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. “There’s a huge difference between getting fighting to stop in the short term and resolving the root causes of conflict.”

Trump’s latest claim to the prize centres on his proposed peace plan to end the nearly two-year war in Gaza. Israel and Hamas recently agreed to the first phase of the plan, including a pause in fighting and a prisoner exchange.

In Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square early Thursday, families of captives and their supporters chanted “Nobel prize to Trump” as news of the agreement broke.

Trump has said repeatedly that he “deserves” the prize, claiming credit for “ending seven wars” and hinting he could end an eighth through his Middle East peace efforts.

Still, longtime Nobel watchers caution that Trump’s chances remain remote.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee faced backlash in 2009 for awarding then-President Barack Obama the Peace Prize just months into his first term.

The experience, analysts say, may make the committee even more wary of politically charged selections.

“His rhetoric does not point in a peaceful perspective,” Græger said. “The committee will not want to appear as bowing to political pressure.”

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate will be announced on Friday in Oslo.