Bolton Worried Trump Would Steal a Nobel, Not Start a New War
According to The Independent, John Bolton was 'always worried' Donald Trump might 'take Teddy Roosevelt’s Nobel Peace Prize from the White House.' This scintillating peek behind the curtain suggests the gravest internal threats to American democracy were not, say, the proliferation of nuclear weapons or the consistent undermining of international law—topics Bolton has notoriously championed—but
presidential kleptomania over a historical artifact. This concern for White House furnishings over the human cost of hawkish policies is a telling portrait of Washington's priorities. One might recall Bolton, a career hawk, repeatedly pushing for military intervention in Iran as far back as 2002, stating, 'The only long-term solution is regime change in Iran.' (This position has not changed.).
Meanwhile, the media dutifully reports on the trivial anxieties of those who frequently advocate for policies that lead directly to the deaths of countless civilians. Perhaps we should be more worried about their 'worries' than Trump's.