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struggle4progress

(126,683 posts)
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:10 PM Aug 2025

rump Cabinet is on the warpath for Peace Nobel

... US Presidents who received the Nobel, like Theodore Roosevelt, who mediated the Russo-Japanese War, or Woodrow Wilson, who founded the League of Nations after World War I, earned it through tangible efforts in diplomacy, conflict resolution, or institution-building.

Even Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama approached the honour with caution and humility. Trump, by contrast, has pursued it with striking audacity, self-interest and desperation.

The brazenness was most visible in a televised pre-Labour Day Cabinet meeting on August 26.

Special envoy Steve Witkoff declared him the “single finest candidate” for the Nobel Peace Prize in history and urged the committee to "get its act together" ...

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/donald-trump-us-president-nobel-peace-prize-cabinet-powerful-world-pressing-norway-october-announced-steve-witkoff-2777628-2025-08-28

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struggle4progress

(126,683 posts)
3. rump Nobel Peace Prize Campaign May Be in its 'Last Throes'
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:13 PM
Aug 2025

Published Aug 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM EDT
Updated Aug 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM EDT
By Robert Birsel

Former National Security Adviser John Bolton said President Donald Trump's campaign to win the Nobel Peace Prize may be in its "last throes" as his effort to end Russia's war in Ukraine was "collapsing in confusion, haste, and the absence of any discernible meeting of the minds" ..,

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-nobel-peace-prize-john-bolton-last-throes-2119862

Sneederbunk

(17,642 posts)
5. TSF better do something worthy rather than stupid pretty soon.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:17 PM
Aug 2025

The prize is announced in October. Don't want TSF to get the prize or even a parting gift.

GoodRaisin

(11,062 posts)
8. Meanwhile, Putin is bombing civilian buildings in Kiev, 18 dead.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 02:26 AM
Aug 2025

Krasnov is silent. He promised to stop the killing on day 1.

Torchlight

(7,066 posts)
11. I'm kinda thinking that demanding a Peace prize is its own disqualification
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:54 AM
Aug 2025

Mr. trump thinks its a commodity to be bought and sold rather than an honor which is earned... something he can't wrap his weirdly-shaped head around.

Conjuay

(3,108 posts)
12. Yeah, let's give the Peace prize to someone who wants
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:00 AM
Aug 2025

to rename the 'Defense Department'
the 'war department'.

Brainfodder

(7,781 posts)
13. Not happening without him buying out the Nobel Org entirely first?
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:02 AM
Aug 2025

As if...

It is funny all the power mad shit when taken with a lot of weed.

Wake and bake... more than usual some days.

hvn_nbr_2

(6,817 posts)
14. Trump has as much chance of winning the Nobel Peace Prize as I have of...
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:42 AM
Aug 2025

Trump has as much chance of winning the Nobel Peace Prize as I have of throwing a left-handed no-hitter in the World Series, and I'm a right-handed 78-year-old.

That they can even imagine the possibility is proof that they're bat-shit crazy, delusional, and living in their own fantasy world.

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