Michael Cohen - Nobel Prize Lust Leaves The World In Peril

I’ll never forget the first time Donald Trump asked me about the Nobel Peace Prize. He leaned across his desk on the 26th floor in Trump Tower, eyes glinting with that familiar mix of envy and self-delusion, and said: “Why did Obama get it? He didn’t do anything.” The implication was clear: Trump deserved it more, because in his own mind he deserved everything more. That obsession—what began as an offhand gripe—has now metastasized into a full-blown crusade. President Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize, and he wants it badly.

Toward the end of his first term, his national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, half-joked that Trump should win the award for brokering relations between Israel and a handful of Arab states. Another aide, ever eager to stroke Trump’s ego, piled on, reminding him that Obama had won it “for nothing.” At the time, Trump shrugged, pretending indifference. But let me be crystal clear: Trump has never been indifferent to applause. If you hear him claim otherwise, it’s because he’s already plotting how to manipulate the narrative so he looks like he doesn’t care—even as it consumes him.

And now, years later, we see the truth. Trump is campaigning harder for the Nobel Peace Prize than he did for reelection. His press secretary brings it up at briefings without prompting. He posts about it relentlessly on social media, whining that while he “deserves it,” he’ll never get it. He drops hints in meetings with foreign leaders. He even raised the issue in a phone call with Jens Stoltenberg, Norway’s former NATO chief, under the guise of tariff discussions. Imagine that: Trump talking about world trade with a European statesman, only to detour into “By the way, do you think I’m gonna get the (Nobel) prize?” This isn’t diplomacy. It’s a man chasing his own reflection.

But here’s the darker side of the pursuit: for Trump, peace isn’t the goal; it’s about the trophy. And when peace becomes a trophy, you have to ask what happens when there’s no war left to stop. What happens when conflicts resolve themselves or when others—India and Pakistan, for example—settle their disputes without him? The answer is simple: Trump invents his own role. He’ll claim credit for outcomes he had no hand in, insisting that his trade leverage or “very good relationship” with a leader was the deciding factor. Never mind that an Indian official already flat-out denied Trump’s mediation had anything to do with cooling tensions with Pakistan. Facts don’t matter when the story is about Donald Trump.

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