Since Donald Trump has returned as president — buoyed perhaps by a popular mandate and the messianic belief that he is God’s Chosen One after dodging a political and legal bullet — he has governed with a kind of wanton abandon rarely seen in American history. He has shredded constitutional norms in both letter and spirit, dusted off archaic laws to go after his enemies, and threatened the foundations of global trade with tariffs so erratic that even his closest advisers struggle to explain them. Yet for all his power, bluster, and appetite for confrontation, there is still one thing he cannot threaten, bully, or buy: the Nobel Peace Prize. Donald Trump has always treated the Nobel as if it were the missing scene in the movie of his life — the final act where the misunderstood genius i

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