Donald Trump reportedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

In news that is sure to cause the masses to exclaim "huh?", Donald Trump has reportedly been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Somehow, the Republican Presidential hopeful managed to end up on the list alongside Pope Francis and a campaigner for Isis rape survivors.

He was nominated by one unnamed American nominator for “his vigorous peace through strength ideology, used as a threat weapon of deterrence against radical Islam, Isis, nuclear Iran and Communist China”

Now before you work yourself up into too big of a panic we should point out that thousands of people are eligible to nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize and just because he's nominated doesn't mean he actually stands a chance of winning. The Norweigen Nobel committee, who eventually awards the prize, typically receives two hundred nominations in all.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, a Nobel watcher and head of the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, has said that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is in the running for the award, as are Colombian peace negotiators, US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation. He did not list Donald Trump as one of the contenders to win.