In the 1960’s Bob Dylan became a star as a singer of folk protest songs for change and against war and nuclear madness, but then reinvented Rock and Roll (lifting it to Nobel Prize standards) by putting personal truth ahead of the suffocating politically correct (PC) artistic coercion he met in folk circles.

In the past decade, Donald Trump has gone from being a television star famous for saying to individuals, “You’re fired.” to winning the White House twice by opposing PC crap to put his own forgotten people and nation first.

As I see it, Donald Trump is The New Bob Dylan

In 1963, Bob Dylan wrote: “Come gather ’round people/Wherever you roam/And admit that the waters/Around you have grown/And accept it that soon/You’ll be drenched to the bone/If your time to you is worth savin’/And you better start swimmin’/Or you’ll sink like a stone/For the times they are a-changin’”

On April 27 2016 Donald Trump said: “……. our resources are totally over extended ……. I will work with our allies to reinvigorate Western values and institutions. Instead of trying to spread universal values that not everybody shares or wants, we should understand that strengthening and promoting Western civilization and its accomplishments will do more to inspire positive reforms around the world than military interventions.”

In 1962 Bob Dylan wrote: “How many seas must a white dove sail/Before she sleeps in the sand?/Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly/Before they’re forever banned? …………. Yes, and how many ears must one man have/Before he can hear people cry?/Yes, and how many deaths will it take ’til he knows/That too many people have died?”

On April 27 2016 Donald Trump said: “……. we want to bring peace to the world. Too much destruction out there, too many destructive weapons. The power of weaponry is the single biggest problem that we have today in the world.”

Dylan wrote in his 2004 memoir “Chronicles” about the rarity of being a genuinely individual voice and included Trump in that category: “I mean, who’s the last individual performer that you can think of – Elton John, maybe? I’m talking about artists with the willpower not to conform to anybody’s reality but their own. Patsy Cline and Billy Lee Riley. Plato and Socrates, Whitman and Emerson. Slim Harpo and Donald Trump. It’s a lost art form.”

Donald Trump is The New Bob Dylan.

A horrible war started in Gaza in 2023 and Russia invaded the Ukraine in 2022 during Joe Biden’s presidency. Trump’s astonishinly creative theatricality carries with it hopes of peace in both wars.

President Donald Trump is worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize.

Who agrees?

Geoff Fox, Australia, 27th March, 2025, Melbourne, Australia