Since 1901, the Nobel Committee has honoured those who genuinely reduced militarization and built lasting peace: Dunant inspired the Geneva Conventions, Gorbachev eliminated thousands of missiles, even Kissinger brokered arms control and supported détente. Now, from Mar-a-Lago, Trump bellows he deserves the prize for imposing a Gaza “peace deal” on Hamas after 65,000+ deaths—60+% fuelled by American weapons.
He Expanded War, Not Peace: Military spending soared by >$100 billion—a staggering 25% leap. Trump sold billions in weapons to Saudi Arabia, linked to a famine that killed 377,000 Yemenis. He deployed low-yield nukes, escalated drone strikes (and assassinated Iran’s Soleimani), and pardoned convicted war criminals with impunity.
He Demolished Arms Control: Trump shredded the INF Treaty, abandoned Open Skies, killed the Iran nuclear deal, withdrew from the Paris Accord, WHO, and the UN Human Rights Council. He threatened to yank the U.S. from NATO and sanctioned ICC prosecutors investigating U.S. war crimes.
He Degraded The Global Order: U.S. global favourability plunged from 60% to 34%. The Abraham Accords linked F-35 fighter jets and weapons to Arab states’ recognition of Israel’s de facto annexations—while Palestinians were deliberately excluded. Three high-profile summits with Kim Jong Un yielded zero agreements; North Korea continued missile testing.
He Constructed Nothing Durable: In four tumultuous years, not one durable peace framework, monitoring system, or verification protocol emerged (beyond Doha). Seven decades of arms control unraveled. The Gaza ceasefire he claimed credit for was Egyptian-Qatari diplomacy, cemented by Biden and collapsed within weeks. Most “deals” he touted, including the new Gaza plan, excluded core conflict parties or ignored systemic root causes.
He Embodies Authoritarian Brutality: Found civilly liable for abuse, accused by 20+ women, recorded bragging about sexual assault. He was impeached for inciting the January 6 insurrection, separated asylum-seeking families, traumatized children, called Black and brown nations “shitholes,” sent National Guard troops into democratic states, praised autocrats while denigrating allies.
While Mandela endured 27 years in prison for reconciliation; and Mother Teresa laboured anonymously for decades, Trump’s legacy reeks of Bush’s Iraq invasion or Putin’s attacks. He ballooned war budgets, smashed key arms-control treaties, unleashed drone strikes, pardoned war criminals, armed genocidal regimes, and defended insurrectionists. He exemplifies bullying, vanity, and self-promotion—the antithesis of humility, patience, and institution-building essential for peace. He even campaigns for the Peace Prize like a despot, flaunting nomination letters at his country club.
The only prize Trump deserves is the “Most Spectacularly Divisive and Self-Aggrandizing Leader of the Century” Award. He has presided over little remotely resembling peace.
Selected Q&A
Q- Not only does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but there has arguably never been an American president who deserved it more. In his first term, Trump brokered four Arab-Israeli peace accords. Since returning to the White House, Trump has brought leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda together in the Oval Office to sign a peace agreement in their decades-long conflict that has left millions dead. He helped pressure India and Pakistan to end four days of fighting in May (Pakistan gives Trump credit, India does not). He helped negotiate an end to fighting between Thailand and Cambodia after Thailand launched airstrikes against Cambodia in July. He brought the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to the White House to sign a peace framework in their war over Nagorno-Karabakh. In what may be his greatest achievement for the cause of peace, he launched Operation Midnight Hammer obliterating Iran’s nuclear program, and then brought an end to the Iran-Israel war after just 12 days of fighting. And that was before the deal Trump just brokered between Israel and Hamas. No president has done more for the cause of peace than Donald Trump. If that does not earn him a Nobel Prize, the prize has no meaning.
A- OMG, what nonsense ;-). There never was a formal Rwanda-DRC peace deal. India-Pakistan de-escalation had nothing to do with US. Thailand-Cambodia and Armenia-Azerbaijan developed no binding peace treaty and both regions resumed usual skirmishes following the brief U.S.-facilitated talks. Operation Midnight Hammer implied direct use of force against another sovereign state outside any UN Security Council authorization—which is a legal violation under UN charter and unjust under Just War Theory (jus ad bellum). Trump’s interventions may have yielded temporary calm in some instances, but they are based on transactional "might is right", clearly lacking any moral coherence, verifiable durability, and personal commitment to a lawful global order required for Nobel recognition. Plus, just look at this clown: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-posts-ai-video-dumping-no-kings-protesters-rcna238521. Really looks like the perfect candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize…
Q- I am interested in hearing what constitutional democracy Trump has violated?
A- I don't even understand the question. Trump has repeatedly undermined separation of powers & congressional oversight - incl. the utterly ludicrous attempt to turn investigations into litigation from his side (and demanding that the DoJ pay him $230 million in compensation - which ofc is a profound conflict of interest and misuse of public office). He is attacking fundamental rights & equality under law through executive orders (e.g., attempting to end birthright citizenship) or by deploying military or national guard domestically for protest suppression, eroding civil liberties. He pursues concentration of executive power & normative collapse, exploiting presidential power for personal benefit, firing independent inspectors, expanding removal powers, and deploying agencies in completely partisan ways. He attacks the independence of the judiciary, the media, civil servants, academia, and regulatory bodies, replacing them with loyalists or threatening their autonomy. Not to even mention his repeated false claims of electoral fraud, the January 6 2021 insurrection, and interference efforts challenge the constitutional norm of elections as legitimate mechanisms of popular sovereignty.