Look at that shit-eating grin as Trump is given a Nobel prize by María Corina Machado, who doesn’t have the authority to award Nobel peace prizes.
It’s another embarrassment for the United States, that we elected this childish buffoon to the presidency. No, Donald, holding someone else’s prize does not mean you won it. I once got to briefly hold Harold Kroto’s Nobel, it does not mean I’m one of the premiere chemists of the age, and I would not go around smirking because I’d received a great honor. This is more like a spoiled child demanding a toy at the store, and a grown up getting tired of his whining and giving it to him. It’s more shame than honor.
Apparently, Trump has been hectoring Norwegian PM Støre to give him the award. The Nobel Peace Prize is not issued by the Norwegian government, but is handled by an independent committee, and Støre has nothing to do with it. The Nobel Foundation has since posted a rebuke of Trump’s nonsense, plainly stating that NO, he has not been awarded a Nobel prize. Naughty child. Keep crying and you’ll be sent to bed without your supper.
Statement from the Nobel Foundation
One of the core missions of the Nobel Foundation is to safeguard the dignity of the Nobel Prizes and their administration. The Foundation upholds Alfred Nobel’s will and its stipulations. It states that the prizes shall be awarded to those who “have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind,” and it specifies who has the right to award each respective prize. A prize can therefore not, even symbolically, be passed on or further distributed.
Compounding our humiliation, is now complaining to Støre that he has to give him Greenland. Støre does not have the authority to bestow Greenland on anyone — that’s a possession of Denmark. Denmark and Norway are two different countries. So he sent of this stupid letter.
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, | no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. | have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
The country of Norway does not give Nobel prizes, Trump has not stopped 8 wars, Russia and China are not threatening to take over Greenland, we are. Well, Trump is — the majority of American oppose taking it over. Complaining that their only claim is because a boat landed there…well, yeah, that’s colonialism for you, and it’s the only basis for American ownership of this part of the continent.
This whole thing is the logic of a greedy baby.
Seriously, we need to get rid of this demented narcissist. And if Republicans can’t see reason, we need to get rid of them, too.
FTFY
Though it has to be said that withholding supper from a child is not a 21st century education method.
His dementia has accelerated quite rapidly. C’mon aneurysm, free the world from this orange pustule.
Gotta admire that level of statesmanship.
That nobility of purpose, the grandeur of character, the graceful restraint!
(What a specimen!)
Machado’s gesture and DingDong’s beaming reaction has spawned a plethora of imitations including a child “awarding” him her prize for winning a spelling bee.
He’s a sick old fart.
BTW the DOJ has still not released the Epstein files in defiance of a law passed by Congress…a Republican controlled Congress. Wonder if they’re going to do something about it.
Cthulhu, I’m tired of this senile old man making threats every single day now.
.1. Why did the Nobel committee give the prize to Machado anyway?
Everything I’ve seen of her since indicates that she didn’t deserve it.
She opposed a dictator.
Well, so what?
I and tens of millions of my friends oppose Trump the dictator every way we can.
FWIW, there is a Nationwide Free American protest tomorrow.
I’m part of the local group and there are at least 500 events scheduled.
.2. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee might as well just stop giving it out.
They are clearly having trouble finding people to give it to.
It should have ended when they gave it to Henry Kissinger.
If they can’t find worthy recipients, stop scraping the bottom of the barrel.
I’m expecting they will end up giving it to Netanyahu for only killing 71,000 Gaza civilians so far.
Or maybe Robert F. Kennedy jr. for everlasting friendship with the measles and Covid-19 viruses.
As everyone including this Norwegian Prime Minister Store has noticed, Trump is not just senile and suffering from dementia.
He is now very seriously incapacitated and going downhill fast.
It is obvious that he is a meat puppet and his so called staff are operating the strings.
Whenever you read something from him that is grammatically correct and coherent, you know he didn’t write it.
No one can say when this ends, but we can all say that it isn’t going to end well for the USA in general, and the US citizens in particular.
@7 raven
And even worse, he has not surrounded himself with competent administrators who can prop him up and give the illusion that he is coping adequately. He has surrounded himself with sycophants whose only qualification is to reinforce his narcissism.
I hear that the Nobel Peace Prize Committee is offering a prize to whoever “disposes” of Trump.