It's no secret that parts of the world really don't like Donald Trump.

In fact, the Republican presidential candidate's popularity at home seemed to wane Monday as evidenced by his second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses.

Tuesday night, however, Trump reportedly made the list of nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize.



Kristian Berg Harpviken, a Nobel watcher and head of the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway, told Agence France-Presse that he received a copy of the nomination letter sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee that selects the recipient.

According to the letter, the author of which was not disclosed, Trump deserves the prize for "his vigorous peace through strength ideology, used as a threat weapon of deterrence against radical Islam, ISIS, nuclear Iran and Communist China."

Nobel Peace Prize nominees are not officially revealed for 50 years, but they are often leaked, MSNBC reports. Among the top candidates for the prize are Pope Francis and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman who escaped from the Islamic State group after being held as a sexual slave. Harpviken adds to Reuters that Edward Snowden was also nominated for the prize.



According to the Nobel website, the selection committee receives over 200 nominations each year from "members of national assemblies and governments of states, members of international courts, university rectors, professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign policy institutes, previous Nobel Peace Prize winners, active and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and former advisers to the Norwegian Nobel Committee."