Donald Trump’s newly announced Board of Peace sounds, at first glance, like a diplomatic initiative. This is less a peace council than a conflict powers’ club, one that assumes peace is best managed by those who break it most often. Trump’s path to resentmentTrump did not discover peace late in life. For years, he has publicly lamented not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, despite claiming credit for everything from Middle East diplomacy to preventing wars that never formally existed. This is ego diplomacy: peace not as a collective project, but as a personal legacy exercise.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald January 24, 2026 16:59 UTC