4 times Trump has been compared to King Cyrus the Great

By CP StaffTuesday, October 14, 2025

President Donald Trump addresses the Knesset, Israel's parliament, on Oct. 13, 2025, in Jerusalem. President Trump is visiting the country hours after Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages captured on Oct. 7, 2023, part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal to end the war in Gaza. | Evelyn Hockstein - Pool/Getty Images

1. Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana

In his address to the Knesset, Trump urged lawmakers in the Israeli parliament to seize the chance for a broader regional peace before he traveled to Egypt to officially sign the peace deal.

Prior to Trump’s speech, Amir Ohana, speaker of the Knesset, welcomed the president, calling him a “giant of Jewish history” akin to Cyrus the Great.

“Mr. President, you stand before the people of Israel not as another American president, but as a giant of Jewish history, one for whom we must look back, two-and-a-half millennia into the mists of time, to find a parallel, in Cyrus the Great,” said Ohana.

After praising his penchant for diplomacy, Ohana said he would nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2026, for which Trump received a nomination in 2020 for his efforts to broker the historic Abraham Accords.

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