SUBJECT: Six Disqualifications of Donald J. Trump for the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
We write as Americans, deeply committed to protecting our democracy from becoming a dictatorship; and as professionals who have served in both government and the private sector in science, law, ministry, medicine, mental health, international relations, media, urban planning, environmental conservation, labor policy, education, public administration, military, library science and more.
We are aware that President Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize which he desperately wants and believes he deserves. We cannot imagine that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee would seriously consider this nomination. Nonetheless, as you conclude your deliberations before the announcement in October, we feel it is important to state for the record why this man is totally unqualified to meet the Committee’s stated criteria for the Prize:
• the most or the best work for fraternity between nations
• the abolition or reduction of standing armies
• the holding and promotion of peace congresses
• specific focus on arms control and disarmament, peace negotiation, democracy and human rights, environment and work aimed at creating a better organized and more peaceful world.
Disqualification #1: Donald Trump has shattered collaboration and fraternity between nations by:
• Failing to sustain diplomatic negotiations to achieve a cease fire or a framework for peace in either Ukraine or Gaza.
• Threatening to take over the sovereign territories of Greenland, the Panama Canal, and our longstanding ally, Canada.
• Proposing to ship Palestinian residents out of their homeland of Gaza to redevelop the land for a resort.
• Withdrawing membership in the World Health Organization, the Paris Climate Accords, and other international bodies vital to our planet’s future health and environment.
• Imposing massive tariffs on 90 countries without reason or negotiations, causing deep economic uncertainty at home and abroad.
• Humiliating heads of state in the Oval Office who dare to challenge him or fail to flatter him sufficiently.
Disqualification #2: Donald Trump has neither reduced nor abolished standing armies. Instead, he has:
• Bombed Iran’s nuclear facility without consultation or authorization from Congress.
• Bombed a Venezuelan boat, killing 11 people, that the Dept. of Defense alleged was carrying drugs without verification rather than interdicting it.
• Proposed to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War.
• Fired military leaders who served in senior positions under Democratic presidents and whom he personally dislikes, accusing them of being traitors.
• Laid the groundwork for a new domestic army using the US military against its own citizens by sending masked armed National Guard troops from states that voted for him into Los Angeles, CA, and Washington, DC, cities that did not vote for him; and threatened to invade other major American cities such as Chicago and Baltimore over the objection of their mayors and governors.
• Granted sweeping police powers to operate without due process to Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents by permitting indiscriminate arrests, detention, and “disappearing” immigrants through deportation to notorious prisons or foreign countries not of their origin.
Disqualification #3: Donald Trump ridicules collaboration with other nations to promote peace processes. Instead, he:
• Makes outlandish promises that he alone can quickly stop wars raging in various parts of the world, from Ukraine and Gaza to Syria and the Sudan, while delivering nothing and becoming bored with the detailed negotiations that make for peace.
• Abruptly abolished organizations like USAID that promoted peace through critical health and economic development assistance to nations in need around the globe, resulting in tons of rotting food and expired medicines sitting on idle docks while children starve and fall ill with preventable diseases.
• Illegally raided the independently funded and governed Institute of Peace and expelled the staff from the premises.
• Cruelly deports immigrants who are almost exclusively people of color without due process or any regard for their legal status, to prisons with inhumane conditions in countries where they have no family, no knowledge of the language or culture, and no guarantees that they will not be tortured and abused.
Disqualification #4: Donald Trump uses his power to undercut the human rights of immigrants and refugees, LGBTQ people, Black and Brown elected officials, and those with whom he disagrees politically as evidenced by the fact that he:
• Governs a divided country through retribution against his perceived enemies and fear instilled by the misuse of law enforcement agencies by
o Arbitrarily slashing research funds from universities, national public media, and medical organizations.
o Withholding access of law firms to government information and agencies unless they pay him with millions of dollars in free pro bono work of his choosing.
o Punishing those who defy his orders through fear, unwarranted investigations and confiscation of personal records and information.
• Opens official FBI investigations without merit into a US senator, a mayor and a state attorney general who have held him to account in two impeachments and four indictments.
• Appoints people to destroy law enforcement agencies that investigate wrongdoing and ensure justice including firing 17 independent Inspectors General, eviscerating the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, obliterating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and using the IRS to audit those he wants to punish.
• Requires Smithsonian museums to whitewash the history of slavery to feed White grievance.
Disqualification #5: Donald Trump is a convicted criminal and an authoritarian who consistently undercuts the rule of law and democratic norms as evidenced by:
• 34 felony convictions for falsifying business records.
• Two impeachments by the US House of Representatives.
• Four criminal indictments.
• Granting pardons to 1600 rioters who invaded the US Capitol and were either convicted or were awaiting trial for offenses.
• Defying court orders related to deportation of immigrants, impoundment of congressionally approved funds for education, foreign aid, etc.
• Usurping powers granted in the Constitution to the US Congress by claiming total immunity from criminal prosecution for all his actions, regardless of those within his official duties.
Disqualification #6: Donald Trump is endangering world health and the planet as evidenced by:
• Denying the value of science, firing scores of world-renowned health experts and leaders at the CDC, NIH and other agencies.
• Withholding medical research funds with no regard for their purpose or the damage done by interrupting critical research aimed at preparing the world for another catastrophic epidemic.
• Supporting his totally unqualified Secretary of Health and Human Services in abolishing further research on mNRA vaccines which were the basis of Operation Warp Speed’s success in curbing the Covid epidemic and remain the foundation for rapid response to future epidemics.
• Refusing to curb assault weapons used in mass killings, calling instead for a “national conversation on mental health.”
• Denying climate science as a “hoax,” attacking successful clean energy industries, defunding climate research, and perpetuating lies and misinformation about climate change through social media and official channels.
This list of disqualifications is only partial, but it supports the fact that Donald Trump is not a peacemaker. Rather, he is a purveyor of hate, racism and vicious division at home and abroad. He possesses none of the qualities or achievements that are core qualifications for the world’s greatest recognition, the Nobel Peace Prize.
You also don’t get peace prizes for sending troops to American cities without permission of mayors and governors. You also don’t get peace prizes for aspiring to be Hitler.
On top of everything else, I can't imagine the Committee giving even a moment's consideration to someone implicated in the coverup of pedophiles, if not worse.
This says it all. This president's claim of entitlement to this prize may be the best proof there is of how deluded he is. His hateful rhetoric, his cruel approach to law enforcement, his history of bigotry, his policies setting class upon class: each alone would disqualify him. Taken together they make his claim laughable.
I can't even imagine speculating that the US president would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But if he were, I'd be tempted to conclude that the Committee members are listed in Epstein's client list.
Thank you for clarifying something I've been wondering about for a while, about WCK. I've wondered if the organization could win vs. just Chef Jose Andres.
Good article and on point. Would love to see a 2nd in depth article focused on how the legacy media spreads and distributes Trumps and his MAGA coalitions lies and propaganda without nuanced and pointed questioning , and or context and how doing so is NOT providing any check and balance Also focus on how the media continely white washes and normalizes this mentally unstable Authoritarians' actions by NOT covering the news in the context of DEMOCRACY like The Contrarian.
Thank you for this simply stated but thorough coverage of the Nobel Peace Prize, review of Trump's so-called peace actions, and even some great groups that may be considered.
38 of us wrote a letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and hand delivered a copy to the Norwegian ambassador.
September 9, 2025
TO: NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Committee
Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Chair; Asle Toje, Vice Chair
Anne Enger, Kristin Clemet, Gry Larsen
Henrik Ibsens gate 51
0255 Oslo, Norway
FROM: 38 Concerned American Citizens
SUBJECT: Six Disqualifications of Donald J. Trump for the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
We write as Americans, deeply committed to protecting our democracy from becoming a dictatorship; and as professionals who have served in both government and the private sector in science, law, ministry, medicine, mental health, international relations, media, urban planning, environmental conservation, labor policy, education, public administration, military, library science and more.
We are aware that President Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize which he desperately wants and believes he deserves. We cannot imagine that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee would seriously consider this nomination. Nonetheless, as you conclude your deliberations before the announcement in October, we feel it is important to state for the record why this man is totally unqualified to meet the Committee’s stated criteria for the Prize:
• the most or the best work for fraternity between nations
• the abolition or reduction of standing armies
• the holding and promotion of peace congresses
• specific focus on arms control and disarmament, peace negotiation, democracy and human rights, environment and work aimed at creating a better organized and more peaceful world.
Disqualification #1: Donald Trump has shattered collaboration and fraternity between nations by:
• Failing to sustain diplomatic negotiations to achieve a cease fire or a framework for peace in either Ukraine or Gaza.
• Threatening to take over the sovereign territories of Greenland, the Panama Canal, and our longstanding ally, Canada.
• Proposing to ship Palestinian residents out of their homeland of Gaza to redevelop the land for a resort.
• Withdrawing membership in the World Health Organization, the Paris Climate Accords, and other international bodies vital to our planet’s future health and environment.
• Imposing massive tariffs on 90 countries without reason or negotiations, causing deep economic uncertainty at home and abroad.
• Humiliating heads of state in the Oval Office who dare to challenge him or fail to flatter him sufficiently.
Disqualification #2: Donald Trump has neither reduced nor abolished standing armies. Instead, he has:
• Bombed Iran’s nuclear facility without consultation or authorization from Congress.
• Bombed a Venezuelan boat, killing 11 people, that the Dept. of Defense alleged was carrying drugs without verification rather than interdicting it.
• Proposed to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War.
• Fired military leaders who served in senior positions under Democratic presidents and whom he personally dislikes, accusing them of being traitors.
• Laid the groundwork for a new domestic army using the US military against its own citizens by sending masked armed National Guard troops from states that voted for him into Los Angeles, CA, and Washington, DC, cities that did not vote for him; and threatened to invade other major American cities such as Chicago and Baltimore over the objection of their mayors and governors.
• Granted sweeping police powers to operate without due process to Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents by permitting indiscriminate arrests, detention, and “disappearing” immigrants through deportation to notorious prisons or foreign countries not of their origin.
Disqualification #3: Donald Trump ridicules collaboration with other nations to promote peace processes. Instead, he:
• Makes outlandish promises that he alone can quickly stop wars raging in various parts of the world, from Ukraine and Gaza to Syria and the Sudan, while delivering nothing and becoming bored with the detailed negotiations that make for peace.
• Abruptly abolished organizations like USAID that promoted peace through critical health and economic development assistance to nations in need around the globe, resulting in tons of rotting food and expired medicines sitting on idle docks while children starve and fall ill with preventable diseases.
• Illegally raided the independently funded and governed Institute of Peace and expelled the staff from the premises.
• Cruelly deports immigrants who are almost exclusively people of color without due process or any regard for their legal status, to prisons with inhumane conditions in countries where they have no family, no knowledge of the language or culture, and no guarantees that they will not be tortured and abused.
Disqualification #4: Donald Trump uses his power to undercut the human rights of immigrants and refugees, LGBTQ people, Black and Brown elected officials, and those with whom he disagrees politically as evidenced by the fact that he:
• Governs a divided country through retribution against his perceived enemies and fear instilled by the misuse of law enforcement agencies by
o Arbitrarily slashing research funds from universities, national public media, and medical organizations.
o Withholding access of law firms to government information and agencies unless they pay him with millions of dollars in free pro bono work of his choosing.
o Punishing those who defy his orders through fear, unwarranted investigations and confiscation of personal records and information.
• Opens official FBI investigations without merit into a US senator, a mayor and a state attorney general who have held him to account in two impeachments and four indictments.
• Appoints people to destroy law enforcement agencies that investigate wrongdoing and ensure justice including firing 17 independent Inspectors General, eviscerating the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, obliterating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and using the IRS to audit those he wants to punish.
• Requires Smithsonian museums to whitewash the history of slavery to feed White grievance.
Disqualification #5: Donald Trump is a convicted criminal and an authoritarian who consistently undercuts the rule of law and democratic norms as evidenced by:
• 34 felony convictions for falsifying business records.
• Two impeachments by the US House of Representatives.
• Four criminal indictments.
• Granting pardons to 1600 rioters who invaded the US Capitol and were either convicted or were awaiting trial for offenses.
• Defying court orders related to deportation of immigrants, impoundment of congressionally approved funds for education, foreign aid, etc.
• Usurping powers granted in the Constitution to the US Congress by claiming total immunity from criminal prosecution for all his actions, regardless of those within his official duties.
Disqualification #6: Donald Trump is endangering world health and the planet as evidenced by:
• Denying the value of science, firing scores of world-renowned health experts and leaders at the CDC, NIH and other agencies.
• Withholding medical research funds with no regard for their purpose or the damage done by interrupting critical research aimed at preparing the world for another catastrophic epidemic.
• Supporting his totally unqualified Secretary of Health and Human Services in abolishing further research on mNRA vaccines which were the basis of Operation Warp Speed’s success in curbing the Covid epidemic and remain the foundation for rapid response to future epidemics.
• Refusing to curb assault weapons used in mass killings, calling instead for a “national conversation on mental health.”
• Denying climate science as a “hoax,” attacking successful clean energy industries, defunding climate research, and perpetuating lies and misinformation about climate change through social media and official channels.
This list of disqualifications is only partial, but it supports the fact that Donald Trump is not a peacemaker. Rather, he is a purveyor of hate, racism and vicious division at home and abroad. He possesses none of the qualities or achievements that are core qualifications for the world’s greatest recognition, the Nobel Peace Prize.
Signed by:
Meg Maguire, MA, Washington, DC
Christopher Maloy, PhD, Washington, DC
Leslie Rogers, LCSW, Washington, DC
Lois Stovall, JD Washington, DC
David Smock, PhD, MDiv, Washington, DC
Paul I. Chestnut, Washington, DC
Roxane Kaufmann, MA, Washington, DC
Neal Fitzpatrick, MA, Washington, DC
Judah Rosner, PhD, Washington, DC
Jennie Garnett, Charlottesville, VA
David Hale, MRP, San Francisco, CA
Judith L. Warren, PhD, San Antonio, TX
Peter J. Hugill, PhD, San Antonio, TX
Anne McCully Murphy, JD, Washington, DC
Susan Saudek, Washington, DC
Fredda Sparks, Washington, DC
Nan McConnell, MA, Washington, DC
Mary Pence, Esq., Washington, DC
Dan Pence, MBA, Washington, DC
Sarah Holden, Librarian, Shaker Heights, OH
Sandy Sorensen, MDiv, Washington, DC
Patricia Warren, MAEd, Marion, VA
Barbara Gerlach, MDiv., Washington, DC
Sarah Pannill, Atlanta, GA
Knox Pannill, PE, LEED, Atlanta, GA
Jennifer Maguire, BSN-RN, Aptos, CA
Charles C. Garnett, MSW, Abingdon, VA
Dale Brown, Labor Advocate, Washington, DC
Jane Rifkin, PhD, Washington, DC
Roseann Siegel, MPA, Washington, DC
Elizabeth Elson, Media Executive, Washington, DC
Paul Isenman, Washington, DC
Jean Tepas, Washington, DC
Deborah Tall, Center Harbor, NH
Peter Tracey, Esq., Washington, DC
David Marlin, Esq. Washington, DC
Thank you! Aptly written.
Thank you! Distribute this widely across multiple platforms with reptetition and constitency.
You also don’t get peace prizes for sending troops to American cities without permission of mayors and governors. You also don’t get peace prizes for aspiring to be Hitler.
You also don't get the Nobel for breaking international law by starting a war with Venezuela.
On top of everything else, I can't imagine the Committee giving even a moment's consideration to someone implicated in the coverup of pedophiles, if not worse.
This says it all. This president's claim of entitlement to this prize may be the best proof there is of how deluded he is. His hateful rhetoric, his cruel approach to law enforcement, his history of bigotry, his policies setting class upon class: each alone would disqualify him. Taken together they make his claim laughable.
It's simple-- if you have to lobby for your own Nobel Prize, especially if you do it in public, you ain't gonna win one.
The morons who support trump can nominate him a gazillion times but the demented rapist felon is never going to win.
I can't even imagine speculating that the US president would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But if he were, I'd be tempted to conclude that the Committee members are listed in Epstein's client list.
Thank you for clarifying something I've been wondering about for a while, about WCK. I've wondered if the organization could win vs. just Chef Jose Andres.
I don’t think Nobel Peace Prize could legitimately go to some one we strongly feel is guilty of crimes of humanity.
Dumb bell prize maybe
Good article and on point. Would love to see a 2nd in depth article focused on how the legacy media spreads and distributes Trumps and his MAGA coalitions lies and propaganda without nuanced and pointed questioning , and or context and how doing so is NOT providing any check and balance Also focus on how the media continely white washes and normalizes this mentally unstable Authoritarians' actions by NOT covering the news in the context of DEMOCRACY like The Contrarian.
Thank goodness the Prize is in the hands of the Nobel Committee
Thank you for this simply stated but thorough coverage of the Nobel Peace Prize, review of Trump's so-called peace actions, and even some great groups that may be considered.