For the second consecutive year, the controversial U.S. President expresses his dissatisfaction with Norway and the Nobel Committee, because it awarded its prestigious annual prize to South African Judge Navi Pillay, simply because he considers himself, and perhaps is the only one on the planet, who believes he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. It seems that Donald Trump thinks according to our popular heritage, which says that "Juha," a legendary or mythical character, once made a false statement and then believed it. He knows or has heard that the Nobel Peace Prize is given to those who make clear contributions to promoting peace in war-torn areas of the world. Thus, he claimed that he extinguished or stopped eight wars at once. Since most observers were surprised by what he has said several times before, an attempt to scrutinize this matter revealed that Trump considers a peace agreement mediated by Asian leaders between Cambodia and Thailand, which ended a border dispute, was not a significant threat to peace in East Asia, and is one of those eight wars.
He also considers that the cessation of border tensions that occasionally witness gunfire between Serbia and Kosovo is one of those global wars, and the third of those "global wars" he believes he has stopped is the limited armed conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Trump also believes he has put an end to the historic border tensions between India and Pakistan, and he thinks he has resolved the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam between Egypt and Ethiopia, as well as that he has ended the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Taking pause at these examples is naturally laughable, for the man is either naive or is trying to fool others, especially the Nobel Committee. These issues did not witness devastating wars during Trump's current term, which is barely approaching its halfway mark, that is, having spent two years. Moreover, he personally has no connection to these matters either closely or remotely, meaning no one has heard that he intervened among the parties with tensions or disputes and resolved them, unless he believes that everything happening on the globe during his term is attributed to him, and that this means he should be credited with what is good or praiseworthy, and blamed for what is bad or dangerous.
Moreover, most of what Trump claims to have stopped or put an end to does not exceed being ongoing historical tensions or longstanding border disputes, and reaching temporary agreements does not mean arriving at a final solution for them, such as that between India and Pakistan. Of course, it suffices to point out the smoldering fire of the Renaissance Dam between Ethiopia on one side and both Egypt and Sudan on the other; where is the solution that Trump claims to have reached between the parties that, even if war had not occurred among them, it might occur later on? The most glaring example of Trump's hilarious and ridiculous claims is his assertion that he stopped the war between Israel and Hamas, despite the Israeli killing of Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip continuing, with all signs of genocide still manifest, including the ongoing blockade, which prevents the entry of necessary or sufficient relief materials to over two million people. Moreover, it does not occur to Trump that he is a participant and responsible for the Israeli genocide for a continuous ten-month period, since he entered the White House, and continued supplying Israel with weapons of killing. He even welcomed the internationally convicted war criminal eight times in less than two years.
The "humor" of Trump's narrative peaks when he claims he stopped the twelve-day war between Israel and Iran, forgetting that he directly participated in that war, and then he conveniently forgets that the war has not yet stopped. He even did something worse when he waged a forty-day war, and still refuses to announce its cessation or reach any agreement, even temporarily, to halt it, including the memorandum of understanding which he quickly announced he had canceled before the ink had dried on his signature. During the forty-day war, Trump committed war crimes in Iran, which are not limited to killing civilians in school or those who were participating in a "wedding," but the maritime blockade without international legal justification is considered a war crime. Therefore, Trump must be prosecuted for the murders he admits to and brags about, as he admits to killing the Iranian general, some of his family members, and many political and military leaders with the aim of overthrowing the regime. He also committed a crime against the country of Venezuela when he conducted an armed robbery on a sovereign nation and detained its elected president and his wife.
In short, Trump is the last person on the face of the earth who could win an international peace prize. If there is a prize he deserves, it is the global bully award, considering what he has done in threatening most countries of the world. He could also be awarded for the destruction of the global economy, considering the chaos his war on Iran has caused in global trade, especially oil trade from it. However, this is just one path among many that reveal the policies of a legitimately elected president of the United States, in fact, a president who was elected twice, with a gap between them, indicating that there was time for the state institutions and the American people to think long before sending him back to the White House again, as the reinstatement of a president who had left the White House and committed the crime of inciting the storming of the Capitol, the seat, symbol, and headquarters of American democracy, refusing the results of the 2020 vote raises astonishment and casts serious doubts about what can be described as the deep state in America. The question mark also extends to American voters, albeit to a lesser extent, since Trump was elected because of the electoral system, which determines the outcome of the vote based on the electoral college members' votes, not the majority of voters. Trump lost in the popular vote to Hillary Clinton in 2016, receiving three million votes fewer, but he won due to the electoral system.
Moreover, the American voter should have relied on the outcomes of what Trump achieved and did during his first term, and not based on his election promises or claims that contradict the facts of reality. In any case, a president who believes "with all his mind" that he deserves the Nobel, while he has committed an armed robbery on Venezuela, waged war on Iran, and continues to block both judicial and political justice from reaching Netanyahu and applying international justice to him, is a president who still claims he is the greatest among all previous American presidents. Certainly, he does not write history; rather, history will not grant him the title of the greatest among American presidents, just as the Norwegian committee did not award him the Nobel Peace Prize merely because he wants it, while his hands are stained with blood in the Middle East, and his pockets are filled with oil stolen from Venezuela.
Trump has never recorded a significant achievement during his first term; on the contrary, he canceled the free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, withdrew from the global climate agreement, and from the nuclear agreement with Iran, and rescinded many regulations.
On the other, negative side, he committed a shameful act that no predecessor president since the 1980s had undertaken, namely implementing the congressional decision to recognize the illegitimate Israeli occupation of occupied East Jerusalem, and he also recognized the Israeli occupation's annexation decision of the Syrian Golan Heights, contrary to international law since 1967. Then he spent most of his first term pursuing the so-called deal of the century, instead of seeking to establish peace in the Middle East by officially following up on the Oslo Agreement signed between the Israeli and Palestinian parties, under American sponsorship, which was signed in the White House garden under the patronage of President Bill Clinton.