Seriously? Is that what people here think? Maybe you ought to petition the Nobel peace prize committee and explain to them exactly how he is doing that.
There have always been "talks" and summits, but the bottom line of power and greed still rules the roost, even with Trump, especially with Trump.

You say "It seems everyone is convinced that Trump is a crazed madman who seeks WWIII." but the only thing you can stand behind are these two "talks" he's had with North Korea and Russia. While he and his administration are waging economic war against China, Russia, and the EU, conducting an economic and subversive war against Iran, Venezuela and most of Latin America, continuing the imperialism projects in Africa, supporting Saudi Arabia in the war in Yemen, supporting the Ukraine Nazis in the balkanization of Ukraine, continuing the war in Syria and literal occupation of Afghanistan and continuing the fake war OF terror, among many other things, such as pursuing a nuclear arms race and an increase of the war and imperialism budget that ought to make the MIC happy as hell.

Here's a snippet from an article by Michael Klare on what's going on. People have to understand that this power struggle among the rich on this planet is not static, it's always evolving, particularly now that global capitalism has infected China and Russia. People seem to be sidestepping the fact that this supposed rapprochement with Russia is something suggested by Kissinger back in the 70's and recently in accepting the world as it is.

"However ironic it might seem, this is, of course, the gist of the Sino-Russian tripolar model as embraced and embellished by Donald Trump. It envisions a world of constant military and economic contention among three regional power centers, generating crises of various sorts, but not outright war. It assumes that the leaders of those three centers will cooperate on matters affecting them all, such as terrorism, and negotiate as necessary to prevent minor skirmishes from erupting into major battles.

Will this system prove more stable and durable than the crumbling unipolar world order it’s replacing? Who knows? If Russia, China, and the United States were of approximately equal strength, it might indeed theoretically prevent one party from launching a full-scale conflict with another, lest the aggrieved country join the third power, overwhelming the aggressor.

Eerily enough, this reflects the future world as envisioned in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 — a world in which three great-power clusters, Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, contend for global dominance, periodically forming new two-against-one alliances. However, as the United States currently possesses significantly greater military power than Russia and China combined, that equation doesn’t really apply and so, despite the mammoth nuclear arsenals of all three countries, the possibility of a U.S.-initiated war cannot be ruled out. In a system of ever-competing super-states, the risk of crisis and confrontation will always be present, along with the potential for nuclear escalation.

One thing we can be reasonably sure of, however, regarding such a system is that smaller, weaker states, and minority peoples everywhere will be given even shorter shrift than at present when caught in any competitive jousting for influence among the three main competitors (and their proxies). This is the crucial lesson to be drawn from the grim fighting still ongoing in Syria and eastern Ukraine: you are only worth something as long as you do the bidding of your superpower patron. When your utility is exhausted — or you’re unfortunate enough to be trapped in a zone of contention — your life is worth nothing. No lasting peace is attainable in such an environment and so, just as in Orwell’s 1984, war — or preparing for war — will be a perpetual condition of life."

https://www.globalresearch.ca/entering-a-1984-tripolar-world-order-trump...

I suppose based on all that, a nobel peace prize alongside the ones Obama and Kissinger received would be totally appropriate.