Summary
Trump’s confrontational approach to Ukraine, overshadowing any potential diplomatic achievement, raises doubts about his Nobel Peace Prize chances.
Critics, including Norwegian lawmaker Christian Tybring-Gjedde, who previously nominated Trump, warn that a Russia-leaning deal unsettles Europe.
Trump’s testy meeting with President Zelenskyy, marked by demands for gratitude and threats of withdrawing support, has stoked fears that negotiations are collapsing.
The Nobel Committee’s focus on honorable conduct also factors in, with Trump’s hostility toward the press and Europe’s concerns over territorial aggression undermining the “greatest benefit of humankind” requirement.
He’ll probably seize one from someone he hates and claim presidential immunity for the crime.
I remember that one; asked to see it, then just pocketed it while his guards moved in-between them.
What are you talking about NBC? This is nonsense.
Zelensky deserves a peace prize for not punching Trump right in his fat face during that horrible meeting.
The Nobel committee has a great opportunity to make a point here.
Trumps still butthurt that Obama got a Peace Prize and he didn’t.
Yea, but it was kinda weird that Obama was awarded for … wait what did he do again?
But Obama did live up to the principals. He ordered hundreds of drone strikes and assassinations, and Trump has never touched Obama’s deportation numbers. But he did host the beer summit for the racist pig who arrested his old professor. So I guess he’s got that going for him, which is nice.
Obama was a strong opponent against Nuclear accelerationism and climate change. Before his presidency he had already been around the world giving speeches about lasting peace and quelling of violence, and was a strong supporter of the United Nations as a vehicle for policy change across the world. Nominations for the 2009 award closed 11 days after he entered office.
“We have not given the prize for what may happen in the future. We are awarding Obama for what he has done in the past year. And we are hoping this may contribute a little bit for what he is trying to do,”
They specifically cite his speech from Cairo in June as a reason for his selection.
Afterwards, Obama met with many middle eastern leaders about establishing strong boarders to deter wars. When it was discovered that Iran had a weapons grade nuclear material enrichment facility, Obama broke precedent that Bush set when discovering technology supposedly used in nukular wepons, and Obama did not invade them but instead started talks which lead to the Iran Deal, a nuclear disarmament treaty.
Best president ever.
The only one that came close to Obama’s deportation numbers has been Biden.
He basically was ‘‘not Bush’’ and promoting the exact opposite of what Trump is doing now. I always wished he would have graciously rejected it, to preserve the prize’s value.
He should start by doing something, anything, to make the world a more peaceful place.
He can follow his small mustached leader’s approach to vacating office and everyone would gladly celebrate his accomplishment.
Personally I’m hoping for a more “French” ending but I’ll take what I can get.
The Italian ending would also be acceptable.
Getting Gaddafied would be acceptable as well.
umm majority voted for him!
You’ll have to specify which fascist you’re talking about
Majority did not, in fact, vote for him.
I don’t think they give Nobel Prizes to pieces of shit.
Is there an anti-Nobel Peace Prize winner?
There’s the Ig Nobel Prize. It’s satirical so there’s a chance he wouldn’t understand that it’s not the real one. Which would make the ceremony funnier as he gets pelted with paper airplanes and heckled.
Winning that you usually end up dead in a bunker by your own hand covered in petrol, dead via bayonet to the anus, or beaten to death by a crowd along with your wife and strung upside-down.
In that case, I’d like to nominate him.
