Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special Middle East envoy, may be in trouble. As widely reported, he has been harshly criticized on foreign policy as in-over-his-head. He is running around the world, meeting with foreign leaders and making claims that never materialize, including one about a ceasefire in Ukraine.

But Witkoff is good at one thing: He knows better than anybody else how to butter up Trump. At last week’s embarrassing three-hour Cabinet meeting — where, one by one, Cabinet secretaries took turns telling Trump how great he is — Witkoff took the cake.

“There’s only one thing I wish for,” he told Trump, “that the Nobel Committee finally gets its act together and realizes you are the single finest candidate since this award was ever talked about.”

Greater than Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, Shimon Peres, Anwar Sadat, Yitzhak Rabin, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Teddy Roosevelt? That's a little over the top, perhaps — but it's exactly what Donald Trump wanted to hear. In fact, nobody has been lobbying harder than Trump himself for Trump to get the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize when the winners are announced next month.

In August, Trump personally

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