Russia backs Trump's Nobel dreams just hours before big peace prize announcement

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Over the past few months, Trump has run an aggressive push for the prize, which includes public declarations that he deserves it and calls to Norwegian officials.
50% : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in comments published on Thursday that Kyiv would nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize if he succeeds in securing a ceasefire.
50% : The pressure on the Norwegian Nobel Committee was further increased after Trump helped secure a ceasefire and a possible peace deal between Israel and Hamas.
50% : Meanwhile, the White House's official account also posted a photo of Trump on X calling him "The Peace President".
41% : Hours before the announcement on Friday, Trump spoke about his achievements in helping secure a deal in Gaza and ending "eight wars", while also targeting former US President Barack Obama for being given the award for "doing nothing".

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.