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D<\/span>onald Trump\u2019s thuggish campaign to bully his way to the Nobel peace prize should not be the cause for the committee to reject him. There are many more substantial grounds that render him patently unqualified to receive the award.<\/p>\n Among the numerous reasons that make him one of the least deserving people in the world who should be honored, he has single-handedly destroyed the United States Agency for International Development, which has saved hundreds of millions of people from hunger and disease, and promoted democracy and the rule of law around the world. In an executive order<\/a> issued on his inauguration day, 20 January, Trump slandered USAID as \u201cnot aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values\u201d and claimed that its workers \u201cserve to destabilize world peace\u201d.<\/p>\n That act of malice by itself should be sufficient to erase Trump from the longest long list.<\/p>\n Clearly, the worthiest candidate for the Nobel peace prize, whether its name was submitted before the deadline or not, is USAID. Since its founding under John F Kennedy in 1961, USAID has supported extensive programs on global health, food security, education and democratic development that, by addressing the root causes of instability and poverty, had promoted a more free, peaceful and prosperous world for 64 years until Trump destroyed it.<\/p>\n As a general rule, there should be no shame attached to an organized effort to win the prize by Trump or others. Trump\u2019s lobbying, though, is stained, as is much else about him, by perverse statecraft that has fostered conflict where none previously existed and his unquenchable need for cult-like worship.<\/p>\n Several world leaders, such as Benjamin Netanyahu, have written in support of Trump\u2019s nomination at his behest, cynically calculating that it would curry favor for their own often nefarious and warlike purposes. Trump personally pressured<\/a> India\u2019s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to write a letter based on the lie that it was Trump who had \u201csolved\u201d a recent military conflict with Pakistan. Modi was alienated by the improper request. After his refusal to submit a false statement, Trump imposed a 50% tariff on India, which sent Modi flying into the arms of China. There is no existing international prize for this sort of willfully destructive behavior.<\/p>\n The encomiums from Trump\u2019s closest aides hailing him as the best candidate are symptoms of the sycophancy that is the eternal mark of authoritarian regimes. Fitting the historical pattern, obsequiousness within a cult of personality substitutes for honesty, fact and evidence. Trump punishes and purges forthright counsel, suppresses factual intelligence and expert information that is not falsified or distorted to achieve predetermined results, and dismisses evidence regarding medicine, the environment and energy derived from the scientific method.<\/p>\n The tenor of unctuous servility was perfectly voiced by Steven Witkoff, Trump\u2019s all-purpose international representative, speaking at an August cabinet meeting. \u201cThere\u2019s only one thing I wish for,\u201d he said, \u201cthat the Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since this Nobel award was ever talked about.\u201d<\/p>\n The phrasing of Witkoff\u2019s praise is eerily reminiscent of the words uttered in the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate<\/a> by the character of Major Ben Marco, played by Frank Sinatra, who has been brainwashed as a prisoner of war held by the North Koreans. He repeats over and over again his admiration for an army sergeant from his unit who has been programmed to be a political assassin on behalf of both the communists and the American far right. \u201cRaymond Shaw,\u201d says Major Marco, \u201cis the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I\u2019ve ever known in my life.\u201d In the movie, Shaw is awarded a prize \u2013 the Congressional Medal of Honor \u2013 based on the brainwashed testimony of his fellow soldiers.<\/p>\n \u201cNo matter what I do, they won\u2019t give it up and I\u2019m not politicking for it,\u201d Trump said<\/a>. He suggested the efforts to grant him the prize were spontaneous: \u201cI have a lot of people that are.\u201d When he was handed a nomination letter that Netanyahu had submitted, Trump said: \u201cThey will never give me a Nobel peace prize. I deserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n But Trump\u2019s ludicrous hypocrisy about not pulling levers behind the curtain to solicit nomination also is not a conclusive reason to deny him the prize.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s rancor about not receiving the prize that has not yet been awarded is exactly the same as his resentment that he did not get an Emmy for his reality TV show The Apprentice. For years he ranted<\/a>: \u201cShould have gotten it.\u201d \u201cI got screwed out of an Emmy.\u201d \u201cThe Emmys are all politics.\u201d \u201cCon game.\u201d \u201cIrrelevant.\u201d Then, like the Emmy, he claimed the 2020 presidential election was \u201crigged\u201d and organized an insurrection to overthrow the democratic result. In his paranoid chain of things wrongly denied him, now it\u2019s the Nobel. Fill in the blank.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s longing for the prize also reflects his anger that Barack Obama received it. Trump\u2019s animus<\/a> against Obama about the Nobel followed his viciously contrived birther campaign. \u201cAffirmative action,\u201d said Trump. \u201cRigged.\u201d \u201cHe had no idea why he got it.\u201d \u201cIf I were named Obama, I would have had the Nobel prize given to me in 10 seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n The diplomatic and political friction that Trump has gratuitously produced between the US and Norway with his offensive remarks should also not be the decisive issue that affects the judgment of the committee. In 2018, Trump said<\/a>: \u201cWhy do we want all these people from Africa here? They\u2019re shithole countries \u2026 We should have more people from Norway.\u201d His comment evoked nationwide disgust in Norway. \u201cOn behalf of Norway: thanks, but no thanks,\u201d tweeted<\/a> a politician representing Norway\u2019s Conservative party.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s recent 15% tariff<\/a> levied on Norway, despite its insignificant trade deficit, has damaged its fishing industry. His antipathy toward renewable forms of energy, throwing the entire wind power industry into chaos, has cost<\/a> the Norwegian state-owned energy company Equinor, which had an ongoing wind project off New York, about $1bn. In July, Trump called the Norwegian finance minister, Jens Stoltenberg, the former head of Nato, \u201cout of the blue\u201d. \u201cHe wanted the Nobel prize \u2013 and to discuss tariffs,\u201d a Norwegian newspaper reported. But none of these offensive, obnoxious and even malign actions should be dispositive in whether Trump receives the prize.<\/p>\n The reasons for denying him the award are much more fundamental and salient. His disqualification for the Nobel is not that he an inveterate liar, transparent faker and bungling schemer. It is that he meets other much more germane and dangerous criteria that were engraved for humankind epochs before the peace prize was ever conceived.<\/p>\n Within mere months since reassuming office Trump has become a harbinger across the globe of war, famine, disease and death. The standards by which he should be judged are those described in the Book of Revelation<\/a> (6:1\u20138) by the appearance of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Trump rides or presumes to ride all of those dreaded emblems of destruction, which do not foretell any glorious coming of peace, a new heaven and new earth, or prophesy a cleansing moment for repentance, but instead carnage followed by dictatorship and plagues without end.<\/p>\n Specifically, rather than biblically, Trump has been an enabler of war. By his actions, he has supported Netanyahu\u2019s offensive war for the complete ethnic cleansing and destruction of Gaza. Through his refusal to put conditions on $17.8bn in military assistance, Trump has made it possible for Netanyahu to ignore the advice of the Israeli army and intelligence leadership not to continue and expand that war.<\/p>\n Trump has called<\/a> for the US to \u201ctake over\u201d and \u201cown\u201d Gaza to turn it into a \u201cRiviera of the Middle East\u201d. This entity would generate profits through a US-led trusteeship, private investment in mega-construction projects and the \u201cvoluntary<\/a>\u201d relocation of Palestinians. Trump has held a White House meeting about a plan<\/a> dubbed the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust \u2013 or \u201cGreat Trust\u201d \u2013 that envisions building the \u201cGaza Trump Riviera and Islands\u201d and the \u201cElon Musk Manufacturing Zone\u201d and paying Palestinians $5,000 to relocate. Under this plan, Trump would personally profit in violation of the emoluments clause of the constitution.<\/p>\n On Ukraine, Trump initially agreed to the European proposal for a ceasefire that would result in new sanctions if Vladimir Putin did not comply. But as soon as he was face to face with Putin at their summit in Alaska, Trump crumbled<\/a> to take Putin\u2019s side. The consequence has been the intensification of Russian bombing of Ukrainian civilian targets \u2013 as well as the European Union headquarters in Kyiv. Trump\u2019s undermining of the ceasefire initiative was his latest gesture toward Putin of admiration and deference.<\/p>\n The Trump White House has said it will \u201cnot rule out\u201d military action to seize Greenland, a semi-independent territory of Denmark, a Nato member. Meanwhile, Denmark reports that Trump has deployed political personnel close to the White House to Greenland to agitate for a US takeover and to prepare for possible US military operations there. On 28 August, Denmark\u2019s foreign minister summoned<\/a> the top US diplomat to warn the Trump administration against its covert influence operation.<\/p>\n Trump has repeatedly laid claim to the territory of the Panama Canal Zone and threatened<\/a> to use military force to seize it. These threats were apparently made in part to pressure the government of Panama to reduce or eliminate the bill for taxes on Trump Organization properties that they were accused of evading there. In 2017, a joint Reuters-NBC News investigation reported that the Trump Ocean Club International hotel and tower in Panama City was a front for international money laundering for narcotics trafficking, dubbed Narco-a-Lago. The Trump Organization asserted it bore no responsibility for the activity within its units.<\/p>\n Trump has also repeatedly laid claim<\/a> to the entire nation of Canada, another Nato member, to be occupied by and added to the United States as a single state. The White House has refused to rule out the use of military force for that purpose.<\/p>\n On 21 June, Trump ordered Operation Midnight Hammer, a surprise, coordinated air strike on Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, Isfahan and other locations. The mission involved B-2 bombers dropping massive ordnance penetrator (MOP) \u201cbunker buster\u201d bombs on the Fordow site and other weapons against the other facilities. When Lt Gen Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, reported a preliminary intelligence assessment that Iran\u2019s nuclear capability had not been \u201cobliterated\u201d, as Trump had boasted, he was summarily fired<\/a>.<\/p>\n Trump has claimed to have brokered a peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia, after the parties came to the White House for a ceremony to sign a peace treaty. Both governments, however, subsequently acknowledged that this was a publicity stunt<\/a> designed to help Trump with his campaign for the peace prize and that no peace agreement<\/a> was actually concluded.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s claim to have brokered a peace agreement between India and Pakistan was yet another stunt to burnish his credentials for the prize. When he was snubbed by Modi, Trump used it as a pretext for imposing a punitive tariff. His claim to have brokered a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the withdrawal of Rwandan forces from DRC soil was similarly false<\/a>. Rwanda-controlled M23 rebels remain on DRC soil, committing massacres<\/a> in 14 villages in July, and the peace agreement is a fiction.<\/p>\n Trump has also enabled the Netanyahu government\u2019s campaign of famine against the population of Gaza, granting Netanyahu impunity for his starvation project, while ordering the US representative to the United Nations not to sign<\/a> a statement from all 14 other members of the security council that the famine in Gaza is a \u201cman-made crisis\u201d and in violation of international law.<\/p>\n A huge famine also rages in Sudan, connected in significant part to the proxy war fought there by a US ally, the United Arab Emirates. Trump\u2019s decision to stop all USAID relief operations as part of his administration\u2019s wholesale demolition of the agency has made the Sudan famine far more acute. As a result, more than 80% of emergency food kitchens have shut down. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC)<\/a> have stated that the funding cuts are directly contributing to deaths from starvation and disease. The NRC warned<\/a> that inaction has allowed Sudan\u2019s crisis to worsen \u201cbeyond measure\u201d.<\/p>\n Besides creating the conditions for famine, Trump\u2019s decision to terminate USAID could lead to more than 14 million additional preventable deaths globally by 2030, according to an authoritative July 2025 study<\/a> in the British medical journal the Lancet \u2013 \u201ca staggering number of avoidable deaths\u201d.<\/p>\n According to the report, \u201cUSAID funding was associated with a 65% reduction in mortality from HIV\/Aids (representing 25.5 million deaths), 51% from malaria (8 million deaths), and 50% from neglected tropical diseases (8.9 million deaths)\u201d, among significant decreases in many other diseases. But Trump has wiped out all these programs.<\/p>\n At home, Trump has eviscerated the National Institutes for Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and withheld $2.6bn from Harvard University in federal funds including for medical research on cancer and other diseases. After an armed man with a semi-automatic rifle opposed to vaccines fired 150 rounds into the CDC headquarters in Atlanta and murdered a police officer, Trump said absolutely nothing. He has been a stalwart against any restriction on guns, which are almost without exception the weapons used in school massacres, mass shootings and violent crime.<\/p>\n \u201cI looked,\u201d reads the Book of Revelation, \u201cand there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Trump\u2019s thuggish campaign to bully his way to the Nobel peace prize should not be the cause for the committee to reject him. There are many more substantial grounds that render him patently unqualified to receive the award. Among the numerous reasons that make him one of the least deserving people in the world 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NEWS<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Donald Trump\u2019s thuggish campaign to bully his way to the Nobel peace prize should not be the cause for the committee to reject him. There are many more substantial grounds that render him patently unqualified to receive the award. Among the numerous reasons that make him one of the least deserving people in the world…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28981,"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28979\/revisions\/28981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-providers.com\/rise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}