Chris Hayes Proves He Is an Idiot: Trump Only Wants to Sabotage the Nobel Peace Prize
- john raymond
- Jun 20
- 2 min read
On Bluesky this week, MSNBC host Chris Hayes made the spectacularly wrong assertion that Donald Trump’s transparent jealousy over Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is “incredibly useful.” In his view, Trump’s desperate desire for a similar honor reveals something revealing, manipulable—something we can use. But that’s not just naïve. It’s dangerously stupid.
Because Donald Trump doesn’t want the Nobel Peace Prize in any meaningful sense. He doesn’t value it. He doesn’t aspire to it. What he wants is to desecrate it. He wants to make the very idea of “peace” absurd. He wants to wear the Peace Prize like a cheap trophy while launching airstrikes. He wants to laugh in the face of the committee, spit on its legacy, and show the world that nothing—no matter how sacred—can survive being touched by his brand of malign narcissism.
Chris Hayes, who ought to know better, instead frames this behavior as evidence of a man craving legitimacy. But that interpretation presumes that Trump believes in legitimacy. It assumes that Trump is trying to earn respect from a world that he has spent the better part of a decade trying to destroy. It’s the kind of error you expect from a liberal who still thinks the problem is manners—not malice.
Trump’s relationship to power has never been constructive. It is annihilative. When he ran for president, it wasn’t to govern—it was to dominate, to humiliate his enemies, to stand over the ruins of institutions he could not control. He didn’t want to save NATO; he wanted to undermine it. He didn’t want to reform the Department of Justice; he wanted to use it as a personal shield. And he certainly doesn’t want to join the fraternity of international peacekeepers—he wants to make the whole idea of peace seem like a joke.
So no, Chris Hayes, this isn’t useful. It’s not “incredibly” anything, except perhaps incredibly blind. What you’re witnessing is not Trump aspiring to greatness, but Trump performing another hostile takeover—this time of symbolic moral authority. He doesn’t need to win the Peace Prize. He just needs to make it seem as worthless as everything else he’s touched. That’s how autocrats operate. Not by building false ideals—but by corrupting real ones until nothing remains.
Let’s be clear: when Trump talks about peace, it’s a ruse. He wants to drop bombs on Iran. He wants to escalate wars abroad so he can silence dissent at home. He wants to call war “peace” and turn the Nobel into another meaningless plaque on the wall of Mar-a-Lago. That’s not jealousy. That’s sabotage. That’s his entire brand.
And anyone in political media—especially someone as supposedly seasoned as Chris Hayes—should be able to see through that. That he doesn’t? That he still gives Trump the benefit of the doubt, still imagines that “envy” might be leveraged into something productive? That’s not insightful. It’s idiocy. And in moments like this, it’s how bad ideas get normalized.
Trump wants to destroy peace. Giving him a platform to pretend otherwise is not journalism. It’s complicity.
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