Musk nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by European Parliament member

A European Parliament member from Slovenia says he nominated tech giant Elon Musk for a Nobel Peace Prize for his free speech advocacy.

“The proposal that Mr. Elon Musk, for his consistent support for the fundamental human right of freedom of speech and thus for peace, receives the Nobel Peace Prize 2025, was successfully submitted today,” Branko Grims wrote in a Thursday post on social platform X.

“Sincere thanks to all the co-proposers and everyone who helped with this challenging project!” Grims added.

Grims is a longtime figure in Slovenian politics who has suggested "remigration" to remove immigrants from Europe.

Alongside his statement Thursday, Grims shared an email from the Norwegian Nobel Institute showing the nomination was successfully submitted.

Grims in December argued Musk deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for advancing “free speech.”

“I propose that Elon Musk receives the Nobel Peace Prize for the next year because he did much more for the freedom of speech, which is a basic human right, much more than anybody else in the third millennium,” the European Parliament member told Brussels Signal News.

He added that Musk’s takeover of Twitter, which he rebranded as X, was “the best of what [could have] happened for Western civilization in the last few years."

The Tesla CEO was nominated for the prize last year by Norwegian libertarian member of Parliament Marius Nilsen.

Nilsen at the time said Musk has provided an “adamant defense of dialogue, free speech and [enabling] the possibility to express one’s views’ in a continuously more polarized world,” in a statement to Agderposten newspaper.

The Nobel Peace Prize doesn’t formally announce nominees until 50 years after they are submitted. However, individuals who meet the criteria for nominations are free to speak openly on their submissions.

President Trump has also been nominated for the prize.

Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize last year, citing the brokerage of the Abraham Accords.

And Trump said in February 2019 that the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also nominated him for the prize.

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