WASHINGTON — On the eve of the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s announcement of the 2026 Peace Prize, supporters of the President released an updated tally Thursday crediting him with ending 74 wars, a figure that includes the War of 1812, the Hundred Years’ War, and a dispute between two neighbors in Linden Hollow, Ohio, over the placement of a fence.
The President has said in recent weeks that he has settled eight conflicts and that he deserves the prize, while expressing doubt that the committee will award it to him. The new count, compiled by the advocacy group Americans for an Obvious Prize, revises that figure upward after what the group described as “a more thorough review.”
“Eight was always a conservative number,” said Wendell Karsh, the group’s executive director. “We’re not saying he ended the Hundred Years’ War personally. We’re saying it ended, and look who’s president.”
According to the group’s 41-page report, the 74 wars fall into three categories: wars the President ended through direct negotiation; wars that ended before he took office but “clearly in anticipation of it”; and wars that have not yet begun, which the report says he has ended “preemptively, at no cost to the taxpayer.” The third category includes a war between two nations the group declined to name “so as not to give them ideas,” and a conflict expected to break out in 2041 over a stretch of coastline that does not yet exist. The report also credits the President with resolving the Trojan War, which it describes as “frankly a mess before he got involved,” and with ending the long-running conflict between cats and dogs, citing a household in Pell Junction, Mo., where the two have been observed sharing a couch.
Dr. Chad Brickhouse, a senior fellow at the Institute for Common Sense, said the committee had run out of reasons to delay. “If you end 74 wars, you should get at least one prize. If they want to give him 74 prizes, I wouldn’t argue,” Brickhouse said by phone from a car wash. “It’s just common sense. Peace is peace. It doesn’t matter when it happened.”
The Center for Measured Outcomes said it had attempted to verify the count and had confirmed that 74 wars have, at some point, ended. “Every single one of them is over,” said Dr. Marjorie Teller, the Center’s director. “We were not able to establish a connection between their ending and anyone in particular, but we were also not able to rule it out, which the group has asked us to describe as a finding.”
The group said that if the prize is awarded to someone else on Friday, it will release a second report demonstrating that the winner’s accomplishments also occurred while the President was alive.
Karsh said the group had already printed 30,000 commemorative plates reading “Nobel Peace Prize Laureate,” which it intends to distribute Friday regardless of the outcome. “The plates don’t say which year,” he said. “That’s called planning.”