Arch war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu nominates Arch war criminal and accomplice, Donald Trump, for Nobel Peace Prize; Why not elect Trump Pope?

Why not Pope Donald the First?

BACKGROUND

See,

1)Matthew Mpoke Bigg,”Netanyahu Releases Letter Nominating Trump for Nobel Peace Prize; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel praised President Trump’s role in his country’s establishment of diplomatic relations with some Arab states. But Mr. Trump has supported Israeli actions that have strained those ties,” The New York Times, July 8, 2025.

You can’t say Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t know how to play Donald Trump for the deluded fool he is.

Netanyahu has nominated Trump for the Nobel PeacePrize. The winner will not be announced until December 2026.

Why not award the Nobel Peace Prize to Trump?

Has he been a force for peace that lasts more than several weeks?

Has he mobilized the U.S. and the rest of the world to defeat Russian aggression?

Why not give him the Nobel Peace Prize which he so covets?

Trying to overthrow the Constitution in the U.S. surely qualifies as a forward-looking action aimed at securing international peace. Certainly the dismantlement of the US. Agency for International Development and halting humanitarian assistance, though it may cause tens of millions of deaths, is the harbinger of a new concept of humanitarian aid—and even of “humanity” itself—which may lead in the long run to greater international peace and security.

Moreover, the halt to furnishing anti-viral drugs to those with HIV-AIDS, while its short-term costs may include millions of lives, could in the long run help erase this scourge from the planet, and the behavior which causes the spread of the virus in the first place.

ICE raids and mass deportations of immigrants without a hint of due process are definitely big points in Trump’s favor on his Nobel application. Who else in the world is trying to solve the immigration problem with such bold action?

Bombing Iran and supporting Netanyahu’s war of aggression against that country are revolutionary actions for peace which just show how obsolete the United Nations Charter is, particularly Article 2 (4) which prohibits the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. Or in any other manner inconsistent with the principles of the United Nations.

The U.N. ‘s efforts to foster democracy and the rule of law in different countries are also obviously obsolete.

But we have to ask, if Trump should be nominated for the Nobel PeacePrize, why should he also not be elected to be Pope? He is Catholic after all.

Nothing says a Nobel Peace Prize winner cannot be named Pope.

My vote, for what it’s worth, is that Trump should be elected Pope—at the earliest opportunity.

Pope Donald the First. I like the ring of it.

James Rowles is a former Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and professor of international law at other universities.

He studied the history of Nazi Germany at Stanford, and has studied and worked on human rights, judicial reform, and access to justice projects in many countries in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and in Afghanistan and Russia. At Harvard Law School, he taught a course on “Law, Human Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Latin America”.

At the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the OAS, he worked on human rights cases involving forced disappearances, executions, and torture in anumber of authoritarian countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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