GOP lawmaker says Melania Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize nomination for her role in Russia talks

WASHINGTON, DC: Rep Anna Pauli­na Luna (R‑FL) believes it’s time for Mela­nia Trump to be con­sid­ered for the Nobel Peace Prize

The con­gress­woman went all in on Fox News on Fri­day, August 29, telling host Char­lie Hurt that both Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and the first lady deserve a seri­ous look from the Nobel com­mit­tee

Anna Paulina Luna gushes about the Trumps

“Look, Pres­i­dent Trump just secured a win with some of the largest tax cuts in his­to­ry,” Anna Pauli­na Luna declared. “Not to men­tion, he’s going to be cap­ping pre­scrip­tion prices.”

Trump him­self has been coy­ly chas­ing a Nobel Peace Prize, even claim­ing he “end­ed six wars in six months.” Luna went fur­ther, toss­ing in a ques­tion­able brag about Bud­dhist sup­port

And also, he’s con­tin­u­ing to bro­ker world peace, so much so that lit­er­al­ly hun­dreds of monks have nom­i­nat­ed him, includ­ing world lead­ers, for the Nobel Peace Prize,” she insist­ed

Hurt asked, “Do you think that the Nobel Peace Prize com­mit­tee peo­ple will actu­al­ly come around? At some point, I guess maybe they need him more than he needs them.”

“Most cer­tain­ly,” Luna respond­ed. “If the Nobel Peace Prize com­mit­tee knows what’s good for them, they’d do the right thing and nom­i­nate [sic] him. But also, too, I think that Mela­nia Trump might also have a nom­i­na­tion. I think that she’s been very instru­men­tal in dis­cus­sions with Rus­sia. And also, too, I think that she’s going to be a key rea­son why we’re able to bro­ker peace with Ukraine.”

“I love that they could be the first joint cou­ple to earn the Nobel Peace Prize. And then even bet­ter would be if they then turned it down,” Hurt quipped

Melania Trump’s letter diplomacy

Mela­nia Trump recent­ly wrote a care­ful­ly word­ed let­ter to Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin about abduct­ed Ukrain­ian chil­dren. How­ev­er, it didn’t explic­it­ly men­tion Ukraine or Ukraini­ans.

“As par­ents, it is our duty to nur­ture the next generation’s hope. As lead­ers, the respon­si­bil­i­ty to sus­tain our chil­dren extends beyond the com­fort of a few. Unde­ni­ably, we must strive to paint a dig­ni­ty-filled world for all—so that every soul may wake to peace, and so that the future itself is per­fect­ly guard­ed,” the first lady wrote.

Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Zelen­sky gave her cred­it. “We deeply appre­ci­ate her com­pas­sion and her let­ter to Putin. I asked Pres­i­dent Trump to pass along a let­ter of grat­i­tude from Ukraine’s First Lady, Ole­na Zelen­s­ka, to Mela­nia. Her voice mat­ters, and her care gives strength to this cause,” he post­ed on X (for­mer­ly Twit­ter).

Trump him­self has been play­ing mid­dle­man, meet­ing both Putin and Zelen­sky this month. Regard­less, the war rages on. On Thurs­day, Rus­sia unleashed drone and mis­sile strikes on Kyiv that report­ed­ly killed at least 23 peo­ple.

Trump’s desire to bag the Nobel gold is noth­ing new. He’s report­ed­ly even cold-called Nor­we­gian politi­cians to push for a nod. But the actu­al com­mit­tee seems to be a major hur­dle.

Three of the five mem­bers of the Nor­we­gian Nobel Com­mit­tee have pub­licly slammed Trump, say­ing his attacks on the press are “dis­man­tling democ­ra­cy.”