Despite the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi exposing his lie on a ceasefire claim in the Sindoor operation, President Trump continues to take credit for brokering peace between India and Pakistan, averting a nuclear war, an effort worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. In a tweet today, the 21 June 2025, he lamented the lack of media support and appreciation on his peace efforts like stopping the war between Serbia and Kosovo, for keeping peace between Egypt and Ethiopia, for Abraham Accords in the Middle East and his recent contributions to the ongoing wars between Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Iran.
Trump’s obsession with the Nobel Prize is not new. In his first term as President, he publicly claimed that the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019. Contesting the claim, Junya Ogawa, an opposition lawmaker in the Japanese Parliament Diet (or Kokkai in Japanese) said that the actions of Donald Trump ran contrary to the spirit of the peace prize and a nomination would be an embarrassment for Japan; the issue died down afterwards. Trump revived the topic again after he hosted Pakistan’s Failed Marshal and Chief of Army Staff, Asim Munir for lunch at the White House on 18 June 2025. The media is abuzz with rumours that Pakistani Failed Marshal has decided to formally recommend Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership during the recent India-Pakistan crisis.
Parroting such a non-stop narrative shows Trump’s yearning for the coveted Prize and is a symptom of echolalia syndrome, indicating an unsound mental condition of the president. Let us dissect his nomination claims. First of all, only certain people are allowed to make nominations, and Shinzo Abe was not one of them at that time, and Asim Munir is not cut out for this elite group, ever. Secondly, the Nobel Prize operates under very strict rules: i) those who make nominations are forbidden to reveal their names, ii) nominees are not told about their nominations unless he or she is the winner and iii) a list of nominees is prepared each year and is not made public. This list is held in secret for the next 50 years.
So, Trump’s blabbering that he has been nominated twice is a lie told repeatedly to bolster and lobby for his case. He is very well aware that his lies will not be caught for the next 50 years. On the contrary, his lies have weakened his case as they violate both the rules of not knowing the nominator and of identifying a nominee, in this case, himself. As a result, he is likely to be disqualified from future consideration for the Prize, which is not to say that he would never win it. If Barack Obama, whose entire eight years were spent at war launching airstrikes or military raids in at least seven countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, could get a Nobel Peace Prize, then any other US President can get, sooner or later. Trump looks to be envious of Obama and feels, That Black Guy got one, I should get one.
Now, look at his credentials for such a coveted Prize. President Trump deliberately lied to the American people about the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. Seven million+ infected cases and 220,000+ deaths, with many of them avoidable, happened on his watch. He promoted and touted unproven drugs and claimed that America had a cure for the virus. The example of chloroquine as the miracle drug, though Anthony Stephen Fauci, an American physician-scientist and immunologist, kept trying to convince him otherwise, is still fresh in people’s memories. The anti-malarial drug is more harmful than a cure against coronavirus. He separated children, toddlers, and infants from their parents at the Mexican border and put them in cages in his drive to expel illegal immigrants. He once said that he would use deadly force on unarmed men, women, and children at the border, which he is now implementing in Los Angeles without any concern for human rights violations.
Trump is a known bully as he constantly denigrates American allies in Europe. He insults and mocks other world leaders (Ukrainian and South African Presidents are recent examples), US Congress, Supreme Court justices, war heroes, deceased people, widows, governors, mayors, or everyone and anyone who disagrees with him. Trump has a history of insulting women based on their appearances, which was seen in full pitch throughout his presidential campaign and earlier presidency. He called women monsters, fat pigs, slobs, losers, nasty, wacky, ugly, crazed, lowlife, low IQ, disgusting, bimbos, horse face, and whatnot. Once, he even said certain black and brown congresswomen should go back to where they came from.
On the international arena, he pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement, and World Health Organisation, and other treaties and organizations. He called third world countries shithole countries. His recent boast of ending the Ukraine-Russia war in a day after assuming office has boomeranged, and the Israel-Iran conflict is on the boil. His cozying up to the President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, who founded the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda, and joining hands with Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir, who is shielding the UN-designated terrorists of Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, are recent examples of his hypocrisy and double standards when it comes to world peace. Trump is not remotely achieving world peace and promoting goodwill towards mankind. He’s doing the exact opposite.
To be honest, Trump sycophants may have nominated him for the Peace Prize, but he has no chance of receiving one. This pathetic, megalomaniacal pursuit of immortalization, on Trump’s part, is a product of his malignant narcissism. Probably, he wants to have his sculpture added to Mount Rushmore in the US. Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a massive sculpture carved into Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. Completed in 1941 under the direction of Gutzon Borglum and his son Lincoln, the sculpture’s roughly 60-foot-high granite faces depict U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. History will judge Trump after he is gone. Some political leaders are like pennies, two-faced and worthless. The jury is out in the case of President Donald Trump in his final term.
