Donald Trump has been downright desperate for his own Nobel Peace Prize ever since President Barack Obama got one and he didn’t.
However, according to a hilariously brutal new report from Financial Times, Donnie’s dreams won’t be coming true any time soon, as “few” members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo believed that the US president had a snowball’s chance in Hell of securing the highly honored and revered award. In fact, most members of the Committee were simply laughing at the American embarrassment behind closed doors.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee is comprised of a human rights advocate, a foreign policy expert, and three former ministers, and according to inside information, pretty much none of them are looking very kindly on Donald Trump, especially in the wake of his recent orders to send American military troops to patrol the streets of Democratic-led cities.
One anonymous European Diplomat further told the publication that Donald Trump’s decision to symbolically rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War only served as yet another nail in the coffin of Donald’s Peace Prize hopes and dreams, considering the fact that “war” is quite literally the opposite of “peace.”
The diplomat explained that Trump winning the respected Nobel Peace Prize, among all that he’s done and continues to do, “would send out a strange signal.”
Another European diplomat was quoted by the British newspaper, noting that Trump’s unending and outlandish claims that he’s somehow singlehandedly brought an end to as many as 10 global conflicts have been taken with a copious grain of salt across the pond.
“It has been hard to take some of his proclamations seriously,” the unnamed diplomat said.
That same diplomat did go on to add that, should Trump actually bring an end to ongoing hostilities in Gaza before the prize was awarded tomorrow, it would certainly be a “big deal.”
As noted by the Financial Times, Trump pushed hard to do just that this week. However, even if he had been successful, it’s worth noting that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded based on actions that took place last year, in 2024.
It’s certainly no well-kept secret that Donald Trump’s pathetic desperation for a Nobel Peace Prize to hang on his gold, gilded mantel is born simply from the fact that Obama got one.
The 44th President of the United States was awarded a deserved Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples.”
Of course, in Trump’s addled brain, this means that the Nobel Committee is blatantly biased against him.
“If I were named Obama, I would have had the Nobel prize given to me in 10 seconds,” Trump publicly complained just last year.
Since then, the US president’s pleas have only grown more desperate and angered and have begun to devolve into all-out threats.
It was recently reported that Trump went so far as to pressure the topic of a Peace Prize during a call with the finance minister and former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg. The US president’s pressure campaign reached such a point that Norway’s Foreign Minister, Espen Barth Eide, was forced to make it crystal clear that the Norwegian Nobel Committee as a whole and their process by which they choose the winner of the award is entirely independent of the government.
According to Nina Græger, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Donald Trump’s toddler-esque behavior with regard to the Peace Prize, and his decision to try to leverage his sycophants in the US Congress to further pressure the committee is, unsurprisingly, only serving to further hinder his chances of ever actually receiving one.
“Putting pressure on the committee, going on talking about ‘I need the prize, I’m the worthy candidate’—it’s not a very peaceful approach,” Græger told the Financial Times.
Asle Toje, deputy leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, spoke with Reuters on the matter and echoed similar sentiments regarding Trump’s unhinged behavior.
“Some candidates push for it really hard, and we do not like it,” Toje stated. “We are used to working in a locked room without being attempted to be influenced. It is hard enough as it is to reach an agreement among ourselves, without having more people trying to influence us.”
Put simply, Trump is only digging his own hole deeper and deeper.
Ultimately, this year’s prize went to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, for her fight against dictatorship in her country.
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