FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin look at each other during a press conference following their meeting to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S., August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

U.S. President Donald Trump is insisting that he deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize — an assertion being echoed by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and other MAGA Republicans.

But in an opinion column published by The Guardian on September 8, Democratic insider Sidney Blumenthal — a former adviser to ex-President Bill Clinton and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — lays out a variety of reasons why he believes Trump is totally undeserving of that honor.

"His disqualification for the Nobel is not that he an inveterate liar, transparent faker and bungling schemer," Blumenthal argues. "It is that he meets other much more germane and dangerous criteria that were engraved for humankind epochs before the Peace Prize was ever conceived."

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Blumenthal continues, "Within mere months since reassuming office, Trump has become a harbinger across the globe of war, famine, disease and death…. Trump has called for the US to 'take over' and 'own' Gaza to turn it into a 'Riviera of the Middle East'…. The Trump White House has said it will 'not rule out' military action to seize Greenland, a semi-independent territory of Denmark, a NATO member."

Blumenthal notes that Trump "has repeatedly laid claim to the territory of the Panama Canal Zone and threatened to use military force to seize it" and "has also repeatedly laid claim to the entire nation of Canada, another NATO member, to be occupied by and added to the United States as a single state."

"Besides creating the conditions for famine," Blumenthal explains, "Trump's decision to terminate USAID could lead to more than 14 million additional preventable deaths globally by 2030, according to an authoritative July 2025 study in the British medical journal the Lancet — 'a staggering number of avoidable deaths'…. At home, Trump has eviscerated the National Institutes for Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and withheld $2.6bn from Harvard University in federal funds including for medical research on cancer and other diseases."

The Guardian columnist adds, "After an armed man with a semi-automatic rifle opposed to vaccines fired 150 rounds into the CDC headquarters in Atlanta and murdered a police officer, Trump said absolutely nothing. He has been a stalwart against any restriction on guns, which are almost without exception the weapons used in school massacres, mass shootings and violent crime."

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Sidney Blumenthal's full column for The Guardian is available at this link.