You Don’t Get a Nobel Peace Prize for an Insurrection, Sweetheart

You don't bully your way to the Nobel Peace Prize. You earn it.

Donald Trump and his entourage are losing their minds again. Sputtering on air, melting down online, drowning in their own grievance and self-pity—because their malevolent, melon-hued messiah didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.

The convicted felon.

The adjudicated rapist.

The business fraud.

The pathologically lying insurrectionist who once said his own vice president should have been hanged—is now sulking around the White House and Walter Reed, dragging his ego like a wounded animal, bewildered that the world refuses to hand him a trophy for peace.

His sycophants twirl through the cable-news circuit, faces red, spittle patriotic, trying to comprehend how a man who worships vengeance, baptizes himself in hate, and eats empathy for breakfast didn’t get a medal for mercy.

You don’t get a Nobel Peace Prize when you mock a disabled reporter.

When you call women “dogs,” “fat pigs,” and “horse-faces.”

When you describe entire nations as “shithole countries.”

When you claim immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of America.

When you laugh about sexual assault and call it “locker-room talk.”

When you tell police to rough people up and protesters to “get the hell beaten out of them.”

When you promise to pay legal fees for violence committed in your name.

When you call journalists “the enemy of the people.”

When you tell your mob to “fight like hell” while they beat police officers with flagpoles and fire extinguishers.

You don’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for inciting a violent and deadly attack on your own Capitol to install yourself in an office you lost.

You don’t get a Nobel Peace Prize when you use law enforcement as theater for fascism.

When you send the military into American cities and tell them to “not be so nice.”

When you brag about war crimes because cruelty makes you feel powerful.

You don’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for tearing children from their parents.

For taking babies from cribs and zip-tying them in U-Hauls.

For disappearing human beings in the night, masked and nameless, into black sites that reek of dictatorship.

You don’t get a Nobel Peace Prize when hate is your platform, revenge is your gospel, and violence is your love language.

You don’t get one because you don’t deserve one.

Because you never have.

And you never, ever will.

For once, you couldn’t strong-arm your way into it.

You couldn’t hustle a country or a committee into giving you what you wanted.

You couldn’t buy it, bribe it, bully it, or steal it.

You can’t grift your way into greatness.

You can’t fake moral worth.

You can’t buy redemption on store credit.

The Nobel Peace Prize still means something in a world you’ve spent a lifetime cheapening. There are still standards— even if you’ve never abided by a single one.

You can end a thousand wars on paper, but you will still be remembered as the man who declared war on his own country.

Because what you are doing is burning peace to the ground.

The Nobel Peace Prize isn’t for tyrants or grifters.

It belongs to those who fight for freedom when freedom fights back.

That’s why María Corina Machado won it— for standing up to dictatorship, for risking everything to bring democracy back to Venezuela, for meeting brutality with courage instead of cruelty with cruelty.

That’s who wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

The ones who build peace.

While men like you burn it down.