Trump won't win the Nobel Prize
Trump eschews democracy, ignores human rights, and lacks respect for human dignity.
Donald Trump really wants a Nobel Prize—maybe because Barack Obama got one, maybe because he needs validation, maybe because he believes he deserves one. In normal circumstances, he would be a leading contender if the peace in Gaza holds. But Trump will probably never win a Nobel Prize because he will always be viewed in his entirety and he eschews the values that define the prize.
At the same time he’s been negotiating an end to hostilities in Gaza, he’s been starving children across the world. He’s fomented division, not unity, in his own country, calling Democrats “the party of hate, evil and Satan.” He’s set loose violent thugs to drag families out of their homes, arrested American citizens with little due process, and used the presidency for personal profit. Most significantly, he tried to overturn the results of a presidential election in an effort to hold onto power, undermining democracy in the most powerful country in the world.
Trump has shown little interest in human rights, human dignity, or democracy. Reading the list of Nobel recipients and their reasons for receiving the prize shows a common thread of selflessness, a commitment to human rights, a belief in democracy, and a desire for a less oppressive world. Trump doesn’t care about any of that. He is only self-interested even though he craves acceptance from polite society and the community of nations.
Even his negotiations with Israel and Hamas have evidence of self-dealing. Qatar, the country that hosts the Hamas leadership and financially supported its government in Gaza, allowed Trump to build a golf course and resort. It gave Trump a luxury jet to replace Air Force One and Trump is allowing them to build air force base in Idaho.
The financial self-dealing stinks, even if the release of the hostages and the end of fighting is Gaza is historic. The Nobel Committee is not going to award a self-serving autocrat the Nobel Peace Prize. No, Trump is never going to get the validation he craves. It will just become another grievance for him and his minions. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
If trump won the Nobel Peace Prize, it would cease to have any meaning. People would later want to avoid winning it.
Let us not forget that Trump wants to put his name on the Gaza Strip in giant gold letters, and make a killing (literally and metaphorically) off the “redevelopment”. He already got the IDF to do the demolition for him for free, next it’ll be beachfront condos for Emirs, and he can make the Middle East as tacky as he has the White House.