At 8:11 last night, Donald Trump stepped onto the stage in Syracuse after a day spent ranting about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize. He told the crowd, “Iran gives us everything, or they don’t exist any longer,” then immediately complained that he should have received an award for peace. He blamed Norway, warned that he would not forget, and called the Nobel Committee the “enemies of civilization.” The person he dismissed as a nobody is Navi Pillay, an 85-year-old South African who grew up under apartheid and spent her life fighting human rights abuses. She helped establish that sexual violence could be prosecuted as genocide and worked to hold powerful leaders accountable. She learned of her award in Nuremberg, the very city where Nazi leaders were tried after World War II. The contrast could not be clearer: a woman honored for defending international law, and a president threatening a nation while demanding a prize for peace.
The Nobel Committee warned that international legal institutions are under political attack and said, “Peace requires justice.” Not long after, Marco Rubio announced sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court, cutting it off from American financial services, technology companies, and the use of U.S. dollars, with limited temporary exemptions. Four years ago, Rubio supported that same court investigating Russian war crimes. Now the administration fears that it could eventually investigate Trump and his inner circle. Trump has also described the campaign as “defending Bibi.” Since the boat strikes began last September, the military has killed at least 238 people without providing evidence of who or what was actually on those boats.
I watched a woman behind Trump smiling and celebrating his cruelty last night. I watched a young boy taking every word in, and fellow Americans cheering for the destruction of our country. So many of my worst fears have already come true, and I shudder thinking about how much worse things could become before those supporters see what is in front of them. There was another woman in that room, a grandmotherly protester who stood up and denounced his cruelty. She was escorted out, but she left giving a double middle finger as she left. Resistance cannot rest on one person. It is in the grandmothers standing up, the young people protesting in the streets, and the people chanting outside that rally. We have 24 days until the midterms. Consider voting early, and keep encouraging others to do the same. We have strength in numbers and determination behind us, and we will never give up fighting for our country.
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This video is based on my written post, available HERE, and based on the events of 10-9-2026.
This commentary represents my personal opinions and analysis of matters of public concern, informed by publicly available information. Any references to individuals constitute opinion and commentary protected under the First Amendment.
Sources:
President Trump speaks in Syracuse: YouTube Video
Note: I normally include the links to Trump’s filmed events directly from the White House official YouTube channel, but around the time CNN and the other legacy members of the press were banned by the White House, they have delayed or not uploaded a great majority of them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/09/trump-nobel-peace-prize
https://apnews.com/article/e3b5d3e000f4803d3bda8c6de93f1c5b
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/15/trumps-boat-strikes-crimes-against-humanity/
https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/sres546/BILLS-117sres546ats.htm
