6 October—On Friday 9 October Donald Trump will learn that he’s been passed over yet again for the Nobel Peace Prize. How can that be, you wonder, when the saintly, infallible, self-anointed “peace president” vigorously and mendaciously (and/or delusionally) boasts he’s ended any number of wars (or whatever you want to call them) and has achieved beautiful global stability in the bargain? And let’s not forget Trump’s ludicrous Board of Peace con game that’s housed at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace (formerly the United States Institute of Peace).

Trump is a past master—he’s a very persistent and successful practitioner, to lamentably say the least—at getting his feculent name out there, usually along with his loathsome image. Because as a natural-born con man he knows that hearing a lie often enough increases the chance people believe and accept it as true, that what psychologists call the “illusion of truth effect” causes the great unwashed to mistake what has become familiar to them for factual accuracy and truth.

But the Nobel Committee aren’t the MAGA moronic great unwashed.

The Nobel Committee keeps the nominations and nominators for all the prizes secret for 50 years, so any juicy stuff—like nominees and their proposers—is based on rumor, speculation, and leaks by nominators. The non-juicy announcement by the committee this year is that a total of 287 nominations for the Peace Prize were made, 208 individuals and 79 organizations.

Nominators for all the Nobels except the Peace Prize are specifically invited to propose their heroes. But Peace Prize nominations are accepted from a wider—if not terribly diverse nor random—pool of statesmen, politicians, and academics.

Among the individual 2026 Nobel Peace Prize nominees, as leaked by the nominators, is Saint Donald Trump. Of course. One of Saint Donald’s sponsors is Israel’s politically moribund head of state. Of course. And among Saint Donald’s other sponsors are the heads of state of Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Gabon, and Rwanda. If you haven’t guessed, all those heads of state are charitably considered autocrats and their states are thus dictatorships.

You may recall that last January, two weeks after U.S. forces illegally kidnapped Venezuela’s corrupt left-wing dictator and his wife, right-wing opposition leader María Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, ceremoniously embarrassed herself by giving her 6.3 troy ounce solid 18K gold Nobel medal to obsessive chrysophilist Trump in a gesture of hopeful ass kissing.

And don’t forget that Trump showed his profound appreciation and thanks to Sra. Machado by installing Venezuela’s corrupt left-wing vice president as the captive nation’s interim president. Sra. Machado is still enjoying exile in Panama, by the way. Perhaps if she’d given Trump the $1.17-million cash stipend besides the less-than-$20,000 medal she’d be Venezuela’s interim president rather than Delcy Rodriguez.

Nah. He is Trump, after all . . .