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Posted on 10/10/2025 10:02:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Of course, Donald Trump has not won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Scandinavian grandees on the committee wouldn’t dream of honoring him. It was silly to think that they would.
The award has gone instead to María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition figure, so well done to her.
Still, it speaks to the fundamental vanity of our age that the Nobel is today’s big story, as if the complexity of world affairs can be boiled down to a yearly episode of Peace Has Got Talent.
The headlines chirp that Trump has “failed in his bid” to secure the prize. And no doubt America’s Commander-in-Chief would have been thrilled at the honor, just as he was by the royal welcome he received from King Charles in Britain last month.
But Trump and his team are not fools. The Nobel “snub” fits perfectly with the story MAGA wants to tell: Trump is busy stopping conflicts, from Nagorno-Karabakh to Kashmir, Ethiopia and Cambodia. His administration may also be on the brink of pulling off the seemingly impossible and resolving the conflict in Gaza. As if by magic – or careful PR orchestration – Israel declared the Trump-brokered ceasefire. It came into effect moments after the Nobel Committee announced the prize winner.
And yet the old liberal world order still refuses to acknowledge Trump’s good work. The stuffy global elite is simply too self-congratulatory and prejudiced to recognize that their time is over and a new world order is being born, based not on “international norms” but on national interests.
This Trumpian narrative has the advantage of containing more than a kernel of truth. Trump’s visit to the Middle East this week will also show the contrast between his effective action and all the liberal warbling about protecting democracy. The fact that the Nobel committee chose Machado, a Venezuelan, also looks a lot like a pointed dig at Trump’s military assertiveness (i.e., not peace) in the Western Hemisphere. Trump’s Defense Department, now referred to as the Department of War, has been conducting military strikes on the drug cartels in and around Venezuela.
But the Nobel is a joke and has been for some time. The late Tom Lehrer was right to say: “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize” in 1973, after Kissinger had, among other things, bombed Cambodia to smithereens. The Nobel honored Barack Obama just for winning a presidential election – a particular annoyance for Trump, as is widely noted.
We are indeed now in a time beyond satire, a world of AI-reality, in which realpolitik plays second fiddle to the comedy of news. Trump will be quite happy to ham up the role of sore loser in the coming days. Because he knows he’s winning.
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These so called “global elites” still don’t get it.....MAGA doesn’t measure itself by their standards and couldn’t give 2 shits about their approval......after all, who wants the same award that they gave to a left wing minority anyway?
According to another poster the nominations were made in Jan of this year so the Gaza peace wouldn’t even have been known then. He might win next year but really if one is POTUS are awards and baubles that much of a thing...I don’t know.
He’s holding out for that 1776-2026 newly minted coin with his profile on it.
Trump should say nothing but to congratulate the Venezuelan heroine who won it.
Another group should come up with a new truthful peace prize. The Nobel prize became meaningless with 0bama. It’s just elites patting each other on the back in their corruption, like the Pulitzer prize.
It might turn out better now that he didn’t’t win. The world will now be focused on what’s happening down there as well as the freedom Trump stands for. Looking forward to her acceptance speech. Perhaps a world-wide movement of freedom riding on the coattails of both. Self determination.
I don’t think Trump is big on geting crappy trophies from foreign eightballs. That’s a Hollyweird elite thing where they show off their wacky, expensive fashions.
Trump’s going to drive people crazy when his face is on Rushmore
Did anyone see Machado dedicated her sward to Trump? That might even be brtter than him winning it.
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.
Now it’s time to blow up the “peace prize”.
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is for acts in 2024. Trump deserves next year’s prize.
Why would he want an “honor” that was bestowed upon Arafat, Obama, and Gore?
To be fair, the award was for 2024. However, Obama got the award when he was barely in office.
Will be interested in who gets the award for 2025.
He already did, well before you decided to tell him what to do.
For Trump, he could make as much (in the future to be sure) in two speeches. If he were that kind of person. Which he is not. Trump probably makes that much passively every few minutes.
So Fungoo Nobel and the fruity Norwegian guy who spiked Trump's duly won and clearly deserved Peace Prize. In doing so, Lars, you didn't injure Trump at all, but you sure buried any credibility you clowns still had (not much) as arbiters of virtue or accomplishment.
Now Trump doesn't have to go to Oslo or Stockholm in the winter and kiss their rings.
He'll have to console himself playing golf at Mar-a-Lago this winter.
After Obama who takes the committee at all seriously. Hell, even Obama derided that purely political nonsense.
“”””The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to United States president Barack Obama for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award on October 9, 2009, citing Obama’s promotion of nuclear nonproliferation and a “new climate” in international relations fostered by Obama, especially in reaching out to the Muslim world””””
Obama gets a Nobel prize for stuff he supposedly did prior to January 31, 2009.
If that is the criteria, then Trump also made promotion of nuclear nonproliferation and a “new climate” in international relations fostered by Trump, especially in reaching out to the Muslim world
We know the Nobel committee is a wretched hive of leftist scum and villainy so all is well with no prize for Trump. None of us are gonna lose sleep over it.
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