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TexasTowelie

(121,586 posts)
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 09:49 PM 23 hrs ago

This is Why Trump May Never Get A Nobel Peace Prize - Silicon Curtain



Edition No168 | 25-06-2025 - Nobel no more? It’s no secret that Trump has hankered after a Noble prize for many years, because he truly appreciates what it stands for, or because this is an exclusive bauble that few people in history have attained. The ultimate in bragging rights – something gold and rare.

There is some intended irony in putting this episode out just after my interview with an actual recipient of the Nobel peace prize, a worthy winner, together with the amazing organisation she leads, The Centre for Civil Liberties. The contrast between Oleksandra Matviichuk and Oleksandra Romantsova with Trump could not be starker. These ladies are serious, passionate about justice and rule of law. Highly empathetic and driven to achieve fairness in the world. There are no materials concerns behind their motivations, and an absolute lack of any ego.

Compare and contrast to the bling king – the monarch of New York real estate, who bombed Iran intensely, and turned around and declared peace two days later and expects a peace prize for that. All amidst his implied threats to resume strikes if Iran does not comply. I’m not sure, but the traditional image of a peacemaker is a little different from this – from someone who enforces peace down the barrel of a gun. A peacemaker that uses bullying to get his way, along with overt threats of violence. It’s an original approach; I’ll give him that.
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This is Why Trump May Never Get A Nobel Peace Prize - Silicon Curtain (Original Post) TexasTowelie 23 hrs ago OP
May Never Get A Nobel Peace Prize? PJMcK 23 hrs ago #1
It makes him crazy that Obama got one Bayard 19 hrs ago #2

PJMcK

(23,841 posts)
1. May Never Get A Nobel Peace Prize?
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 10:14 PM
23 hrs ago

There's no question about it at all!

Trump is not a peacemaker, he's a warmongering, fascistic, sadistic, ignorant asshole.

The Nobel committee will NEVER grant him the honor of the Peace Prize. No question about it.

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