Trump receives award for peace from Nixon Foundation

President Trump received the Architect of Peace Award from the Nixon Foundation in a ceremony Tuesday at the White House.

Special assistant to the president and communications adviser Margo Martin posted pictures of Mr. Trump surrounded by individuals from the foundation on X.

The Architect of Peace Award was established in 1995, shortly after former President Richard Nixon’s death. 

It’s given to people “who embody his lifelong goal of shaping a more peaceful world,” according to the foundation website.

“President Trump’s America First foreign policy is rooted in robust personal diplomacy combined with a peace-through-strength philosophy. The results have been simply incredible in the number of ceasefires and peace deals that he has achieved around the world,” Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien, chairman of the Nixon Foundation board of directors, said in an article from the foundation on X.

“As a recipient of the Architect of Peace Award, he will join a pantheon of peacemakers who put into practice the principles that defined President Nixon’s own vision for a more peaceful world,” he said.

The foundation cited as foreign policy achievements that won him the award Mr. Trump’s Abraham Accords, helping economic normalization between Kosovo and Serbia, and ceasefire negotiations between several pairs of warring nations — Thailand and Cambodia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India and Pakistan, and Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The foundation also mentioned his work to end the Russia-Ukraine war, and most recently, the ceasefire agreement signed between Israel and Hamas.

According to photos, the president showed Nixon’s daughter, Tricia Nixon Cox, along with members of her family at the West Wing colonnade where Nixon’s photo is hung in gold.

Past winners of the award include former presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush, along with former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Mr. Trump was eyeing the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded earlier this month to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.