Thread by @AmoneyResists

MAGA is incensed that their false prophet didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, actually. Trump even being *floated* for the prize is not a compliment. It’s a SICK MORAL JOKE — political malpractice dressed up as a medal that would have ended the award’s prestige (THREAD) 🧵

The man they want to celebrate spent YEARS cozying up to autocrats, praising strongmen, and kowtowing to dictators who crush dissent. That is the LITERAL OPPOSITE of peacebuilding.

He weaponized lies to justify cruelty at home — FAMILY SEPARATION, CHILDREN IN CAGES, PEOPLE SHIPPED OFF TO FOREIGN TORTURE PRISONS WITHOUT EVEN A TRIAL, the list goes on — and then pretended that cruelty was “strength.” That’s not leadership. It’s CRUELTY-AS-BRAND.

On foreign policy, his record is a string of mortifyingly chaotic and destabilizing moves: erratic withdrawals, incoherent threats, and bizarro alliances that left our partners and allies scrambling and our adversaries smiling.

He BRAGGED about leaders who TORTURED AND DISMEMBERED an American journalist and oppressed minorities, then tried to make deals with them like they were equals in some transactional chess game. You don’t get a fucking Nobel for FLATTERING BULLIES AND APPEASING MONSTERS.

When people talk about “peace,” they mean REDUCING violence and PROTECTING civilians. Trump’s playbook — rewarding strongmen and tolerating war crimes when convenient — moves us farther from that goal. The man is TRYING TO MOBILIZE THE MILITARY TO OCCUPY U.S. CITIES AS WE SPEAK.

He has encouraged political violence CONSTANTLY — from incendiary rhetoric that incited A LITERAL VIOLENT AND DEADLY INSURRECTION to pardons that signaled immunity for political crimes. That kind of signal corrodes norms faster than any treaty can fix.

The claim he’s a “deal-maker” who brokered peace treaties is A FICTIONAL FANTASY: most of his so-called “deals” were PR stunts with shaky foundations and ZERO guarantees for civilians. He claims he “ended 7 wars.” He has brokered ZERO ACTUAL PEACE AGREEMENTS.

The Abraham Accords got coverage as diplomacy — and they had real elements — but they were transactional, incomplete, and often used as a fig leaf to distract from other harms that they either indirectly caused or overlooked.

Meanwhile, conflicts simmered or worsened in places where U.S. policy under him was at best chaotic and at worst enabling. Peace isn’t a banner you wave while chaos spreads. His capitulation to Putin on U.S. soil DIRECTLY LED to Putin INCREASING ATTACKS on Ukrainian civilians.

A Nobel Peace Prize isn’t a trophy for optics. It’s supposed to honor measurable steps toward reducing suffering and protecting human life. Trump is a malignantly narcissistic sociopath who isn’t even capable of CARING about anyone other than himself. And his record confirms it.

This isn’t about partisan sniping, either. It’s about basic moral criteria. We should push to nominate people who actually advanced civilian safety, conflict deescalation, and democratic norms — not people who consistently and endlessly undermined them.

The press has a role here, which they’ve completely abdicated and failed us just as badly as they did electorally. Watching major outlets entertain the Nobel talk without rigorous pushback is part of the problem. Journalism is supposed to ask whether the praise fits the deeds.

Too often the media acts like moral fog: long on spectacle, short on the hard receipts. We need reporting that compares actions to outcomes, not headlines that are merely a tribute to delusionally partisan wishful thinking.

The man under consideration has shown a consistent pattern: glorify force when it fits, ignore abuses when it’s expedient, and weaponize clemency for political theater. He has also glorified and incited violence since stepping on the political stage. That’s disqualifying.

And let’s not forget the deadliest failure of all. He sabotaged America’s pandemic response — not out of ignorance, but calculation. He truly believed denial would help his re-election bid. That decision cost over a million American lives.

The government’s own advisers begged him to act. He mocked masks, ridiculed science, got vaccinated in secret, silenced truth-tellers, and turned public health into a political loyalty test. He called it “under control” while refrigerated trucks filled with dead bodies.

That’s not leadership. It’s MORAL DEPRAVITY measured in CASKETS.
If the Nobel Prize stands for anything — anything at all — it cannot honor the man who turned a global health crisis into a campaign strategy.

The temperament that Trump exhibits glorifies force, celebrates violence, mocks compassion, dismisses suffering, and sacrifices human life for optics. None of that builds peace. It CORRODES CIVILIZATION.

The stakes here are real. Normalizing Trump has been disastrous for America politically. And even entertaining applause for leaders who erode norms and actively harm the country makes future abuses that much easier and accountability that much harder.

If the conversation around this ‘nomination’ lacks a forensic look at the consequences — civilian harm, democratic erosion, emboldened autocrats — then it’s not journalism. It’s marketing.

We should expect our leaders to be better than celebrity endorsements for power. And we should *demand* that our institutions — media, civil society, the international community — produce evidence of real, verifiable peacebuilding before even *entertaining* someone as a recipient

A true peacebuilder lowers the temperature on political violence, protects vulnerable people, and strengthens checks on power. That’s a high bar. It should be. Trump constantly does the EXACT OPPOSITE.

Don’t let PR replace proof. Awards mean something only if standards are non-negotiable. So: no, you don’t get a fucking Nobel for optics. If you want to honor peace, look for people who actually did the work — not the ones who made the best spectacle out of chaos.

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