Ten Reasons Why Trump Should Never Be Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize | naked capitalism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : My appointment was approved by then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the Council of Europe.
59% : Ninth, he withdrew the United States from critical international bodies, including the World Health Organization and UNESCO, as well as less well-known organizations like the Council of Europe's European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) that works with 46 European governments and civil society organizations across the region to address issues of discrimination.
57% : I was there doing research on the 1964 prize awarded to Martin Luther King Jr., and I read several of the original letters sent to the Committee nominating him.
57% : Mind you, Greenland is a self-governing territory of Denmark whose people and government have no interest whatsoever in becoming part of the U.S.
57% : Let's hope that the Nobel Peace Prize never becomes another institution that Trump disgraces and diminishes.
55% : As a political scientist who focuses on human rights, global racial justice, and social movements, I've given considerable thought to and conducted research on the Nobel Peace Prize.
54% : And mind you, that ludicrous claim came only weeks after his unlawful killing of multiple individuals with military strikes in the international waters of the Caribbean without due process or any legal recourse, not to speak of changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
51% : The Nobel Committee does not, in fact, release information about each year's determination, including all the individuals or groups nominated, until 50 years later, so the only way Trump and the world would know that Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, and others have indeed nominated him is if they publicly stated it or told him so.
51% : Third, he shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
50% : For instance, Trump did not negotiate the de-escalation between Pakistan and India over their recent attacks on each other; Modi was allegedly infuriated by Trump trying to take credit.
50% : So if Trump manages to win, the bestowing of the award would not be a testament to his peacemaking but to his power, specifically EU members pressuring the committee to give Trump the prize so as to curry favor because Putin.
50% : So, let's examine his first eight months in office in 2025 and ask a basic question: What has Trump done so far this year to not deserve the award?
50% : Rather than condemn their actions, Trump rewarded their (and his) lawlessness.
50% : Trump not only declared that he wanted Greenland for "security" purposes but didn't rule out using military force to get it.
50% : Trump claims that the United States is not getting fair market treatment for its use.
50% : However, as one expert on the canal noted, Trump is insisting on preferential treatment and promising to take it back if he doesn't get his way.
50% : Like Trump in 2021, Bolsonaro and his followers were unsuccessful in their violent attempt to stop a transition of power to then-elected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after Bolsonaro legitimately lost the 2022 election.
50% : Trump was rebuffed by two federal judges who concluded that he was violating the First Amendment right to free speech by stating that he would "impose tangible and significant consequences" on anyone supporting the ICC.
50% : In January, I was informed that Trump was withdrawing the U.S. from its "observer" status on the commission because ECRI was not aligned with the values of the incoming administration.
50% : By now, it should be crystal clear that Trump has no interest in Ukraine's sovereignty, which he's denigrated repeatedly, while proving all too willing to grant concessions to the universally recognized aggressor in that conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
50% : Note to Trump: The Award Must Be Earned His authoritarian push to reshape the United States and demean all its governing, social, financial, and cultural institutions is itself a threat to peace.
50% : Trump is possibly the most unethical, petty, and vengeful president in American history.
50% : Let Trump continue to whine and play the victim as he manifests his doctrine of intimidation, bribes, and palling around with authoritarians.
49% : And as many, including members of the commentariat, have observed, if Trump wins, it will complete the discrediting of the peace prize that started when Obama was the pick.
47% : In the not-too-distant future, history will extensively document and abhor the outrages and inhumanity of the Trump era, recording it with the same disdain and dismay that now is used for the eras of slavery and segregation, or the McCarthy years.
43% : It's inexplicable to me why former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton would cavalierly state that she would nominate Trump, the twice-impeached, 34-count convicted felon and adjudicated sexual abuser, for the prize if he brought a ceasefire to the war in Ukraine.
42% : Trump has called the trial a "witch hunt" and said he would impose a 50% tariff on Brazilian imports unless it was stopped and Bolsonaro freed. Seventh, in another of his unconstitutional executive orders, he threatened two U.S. professors with legal penalties for working with or writing in support of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
42% : It's impossible to imagine Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, or Martin Luther King Jr. calling officials in Norway and begging for the prize as Trump recently did; or, for that matter, using his platform at the United Nations to falsely claim that "everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize."
41% : " Fourth, he has deployed staff from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as the National Guard and other troops in Los Angeles, Washington, D. C., Chicago, and soon, it seems, to Memphis, Tennessee, and Portland, Oregon (supposedly to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities there "under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists").
39% : That both lawmakers and scholars can't even agree on whether the president flaunted the law or not suggests the carelessness of his actions when it came to legal procedures involving war.
33% : After all, at the memorial for the assassinated Charlie Kirk, moments after his widow Erika Kirk called for forgiveness and stated that "the answer to hate is not hate," Trump said, "I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them." The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to "the person who has done the most or best to advance fellowship among nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the establishment and promotion of peace congresses."

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