The most authoritative source on Yiddish has revised its classic definition of chutzpah.
For years, Leo Rosten’s The Joys of Yiddish defined chutzpah as “gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible ‘guts,’ presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to.” In this sense, chutzpah expresses both strong disapproval and condemnation.
The definition now simply says Donald Trump, followed by the fuller definition, a photo,
and the following examples:
- People, usually male, who assume they deserve an award for showing up, no matter what they do when they do.
- People who campaign for awards as if they’re a movie studio hawking for an Oscar, boasting repeatedly of settling 5, 6, 7, 8 wars, in case a prize committee has lost count. “Nobody in history has solved eight wars in a period of nine months. And I’ve stopped eight wars. That’s never happened before.”
- People who fill the airwaves with sycophantic pretty boys who do their bidding for them.
- People who’ve mastered self-serving hyperbole. In its opinion piece, The Daily Beast wrote: “His biblical comparison for the Middle East peace deal proves he can’t quiet his own Trump-et blast. Nearly 3,000 years ago, the Old Testament predicted the coming of the ‘Prince of Peace.’ (Isaiah 9:6). And on the 9th day of October 2025, President Donald J. Trump came close to suggesting he might have been who Isaiah had in mind. The whole world has come together, but the Middle East has come together for the first time in 3,000 years…. “When he says to anybody who will listen that he is bringing peace to the Middle East after 3,000 years, he is more histrionic than historical.”
- People who put their face on a coin in violation of federal law that prohibits the image on both sides of the coin and provides that only the deceased can appear on U.S. currency. No such provision exists for Nobel Prize commemorative coins.
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| Doctored photo of a mythical Nobel Prize commemorative coin with Maria Corina Machado on it |
- A person who orders the “lethal kinetic strikes” of presumed drug boats off the coast of Venezuela, killing multiple people on board, according to Fox News, demonstrating that there are apparent alternative paths to a peace prize rather than one for “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
- People who order invasions of cities, like Portland and Chicago, in their own country.
- A person who changes the name of a cabinet department from the Defense Department to the War Department and stakes out a claim for a peace prize.
- The 1992 book by Alan Dershowitz that had the chutzpah to be named Chutzpah opens with “American Jews need more chutzpah.” American Jews know where they can find it; in the author, his confidant and client Joseph Epstein, and Trump, all who share the secrets of a sex pedophile scandal.
- One of chutzpah’s most ardent practitioners, Texas Senator Ted Cruz who knows whereof he speaks and at whom to point the finger, uses the term frequently.
- A person who is touted for a Nobel Peace Prize by a leader who is accused by the International Criminal Court of the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare, of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population, and of the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.
- A man whose advisers complain of not winning an award because the awards committee “placed politics over peace,” using those very words, as if scripted. Roll call - White House communications director Steven Cheung; Katie Miller, the former White House staffer and wife of deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller; Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump; and Vladimir Putin. “No one deserves it more than President Trump. But we know these people who establish who wins the Nobel Peace Prize hate Donald Trump. They suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. And in our hearts, he will be winning the Nobel Peace Prize. We know that for sure,” Lara Trump said.
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Someone taught GOP Congressman Richard Hudson’s staff how to use AI and they went to town and placed bootlicking over both politics and peace.
In public, Trump, flashing the characteristic humility of a self-proclaimed runner up, did not complain about not getting the prize. He said that the person who received the award called him to thank him and tell him she’s accepting the award in honor of him because he really deserved it. “I didn’t say ‘then give it to me,’” he joked, adding that he’s been helping her along the way. Forever the jokester.
Postscript: In response to the Nobel Peace Prize announcement, the recipient, Maria Corina Machado, in hiding from the Venezuelan government, tweeted her appreciation to the Venezuelan people and to Trump:
In response to the White House’s complaints that Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Prize Committee stated, “The Venezuelan regime’s rigid hold on power and its repression of the population are not unique in the world…We see the same trends globally: rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarisation.”
On its official website, the Nobel Prize wrote, “It was a choice of ballots over bullets”.
And as I wrote in another post the other day, the award won’t be presented until Dec. 10. Trump has plenty of time to mobilize his people to contest the award in ways only he knows how.
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