Trump is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Will he be awarded it?

Of course not. Why? Trump is conservative and cares about maintaining capitalism and defending the USA.

No. If he did I would suspect that someone got paid off…

Sure. Why not? Remember, this unfortunately-named award went to Henry Kissinger. Why not give it to Trump or some other white nationalist sociopath?

They also gave it to Obama, who ended up bombing another Nobel Peace Prize winner! Good stuff.

If he had been true to his 2016 campaign promises to end the wars and bring the troops home, I think he would deserve it (no matter how much I can’t stand the fucker).

@hmmmmmm “They also gave it to Obama, who ended up bombing another Nobel Peace Prize winner! Good stuff.”
You haven’t heard of ‘Peace through superior firepower??’ If good fences make good neighbors, why can’t good defenses make for good neighbors??

It’s not the first time he’s been nominated. The Nobel Peace prize has always been about politics. And I agree with @hmmmmmm I had a smh moment when Obama was nominated. I rather liked him (especially now in retrospect) but he certainly didn’t deserve a prize. He got the prize for being “not Bush”.

Any legislator in any country can make a nomination. Trump was nominated by a fellow white nationalist bigot from Norway. Imagine if Sean Hannity nominated Tucker Carlson for an NAACP Image Award. It’s about that meaningful.

@hmmmmmm let’s be completely honest about Obama. Considering when nominations for the Nobel Prizes have to be in and the length of time they are discussed and debated before the actual decisions are made, Obama was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for nothing more than campaign promises since that is all he had officially done. That cheapened the integrity of the Nobel prize immeasurably.
Should Trump be awarded the prize? It is an interesting idea. He has done more to broker peace in the Middle East than his predecessors. He managed to get Israel and the UAE to agree to a peace plan. He also brokered a deal between Kosovo and Serbia…another thing his predecessors couldn’t/wouldn’t do. And both of these areas have been notoriously unstable for decades. @gorillapaws He did cut way back on the wars and has worked to pull our troops from the war zones. If I remember, it was the Democrats that fought against him when he wanted to pull our troops from Syria. He has pulled all but a handful of troops from Iraq and is looking to pull 4000 troops from Afghanistan in a relatively short time. He is working to make good on that promise.

@seawulf575 “He” might be “working to make good on that promise” but it will probably come back to bite us like the US being isolationists did back in the days just before WWII.

@kritiper Yeah, isolationists. That must be why he has been working on all these peace treaties around the world.

I thought this was a joke.

That depends is the Nobel Prize now being given to the person who could tell the most lies ever and or the biggest crook in office? Because then I can see him winning it hands down.

@seawulf575 Yeah, we know how they work out, like the one between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler.

@seawulf575 ” That cheapened the integrity of the Nobel prize immeasurably.”

As if it hasn’t been cheapened since they gave it to fucking Henry Kissinger…

@kritiper Sooooo…..you want to slam President Trump and call him an isolationist. Yet when confronted with the facts that he has done a lot to work towards peace in many trouble areas around the world (which means he is NOT an isolationist), you then want to play the tarot game and try predicting the future. Why can’t you just admit you were wrong?

@Darth_Algar At least Kissinger did something to base the peace prize on. He at least worked towards an armistice in Viet Nam. How effective he was or if he should have gotten the peace prize are up for debate. But at least he did something. So now let’s compare that to Barack Hussein Obama. But let’s back up and review how the Peace prize is awarded. The committee opens up nominating in September the year before the award is to be given. In Obama’s case that would have been September of 2008. He hadn’t even finished campaigning to be POTUS yet. The deadline for nominations is Feb 1 of the year it is awarded. So that means Obama had been POTUS a total of 11 days before the nominations were closed. The short list of potential winners is completed by March. Sooo…with all that, what had he actually done to warrant the Nobel Peace Prize? What had he actually done to actually be nominated at all? The answer is…nothing. All they had to base a nomination on was campaign promises. And as we found out later, most of those were deceptive if not outright lies. Of the two, I’d say Kissinger deserved it FAR more than Obama. Shoot, I deserve it as much as Obama did.

Oh yes, seeking an armistice in a war he largely perpetuated, and only then because the war was becoming seriously unpopular and a huge political liability at home. Real commendable. There’s a reason Le Duc Tho, co-winner with Kissinger, refused to accept the award. He knew the armistice was a bad joke.

@Darth_Algar As I said, his effectiveness or whether he should have been awarded the prize is up for debate. But I notice you don’t address the lack of anything for Obama.

@seawulf575

Because I consider the Nobel Peace Prize itself to be a joke. You talk about it being cheapened, but it wasn’t worth much to begin with. What more needs to be said? If you’re expecting me to perform some specific song and dance routine just to amuse you then you can go piss up a rope.

@Darth_Algar Got it. You are incapable or completely unwilling to say a bad word about Obama. All you can do is deflect away from his joke of a presidency. Carry on.

^ Wulf – I hate to be the one to break this to you, but… The fact that Obama is a piece of shit does nothing to diminish your white nationalist dipshit Trump and your rancid party.

Start making your arguments without relying on your “hypocrisy” crutch. It doesn’t work, and it’s tiresome. Consider approaching things as though you are evaluating the principles involved.

@hmmmmmm I understand you guys don’t want to admit your hypocrisy. That is part of the fun of pointing it out to you so often. Because it happens with almost every response you give me.
It is a target rich environment. But the question we are dealing with is whether Trump will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. And with that question, past winners are fair game. To determine if he warrants winning, you can look at past winners to base your decision.

The fact that I have to explain this to you says more about you than it does me. It also pokes huge holes in your dodge about Obama. Yes, he was a poor president in my book. But my view of his policies has nothing to do with the Nobel Prize. Your opinion of Trump or the Republicans (and I keep telling you I am an Independent) has nothing to do with it. But Obama won it for nothing. Campaign promises at best. Because he is black at worst. So given that, I’d say Trump has more than earned it, though they will never give it to him. They will kow-tow to the globalists who hate him.